Holi Special Recipes - Carrot Cake

Holi Special Recipes - Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

Cake base
Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 3 Cups
Sugar - 2 Cups
Salt - 1 Table Spoon
Cinnamon - 1 Table Spoon
Apple Sauce -1-1/2 Cups[OR]1 Cup Oil
Larges Eggs -4 [OR]5 Eggs whites
Vanilla extract - 1 Table Spoon
Pureed Carrots - 1-1/2 Cups [One 16 Oz. bag]
pineapple -3/4 Cup(optional)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 9 or 10 inch spring form pans.
2. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add applesauce or Oil, eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Fold in carrots and Pineapple.
3. Pour batter into the prepared pans. Set on the middle race of the oven and bake for 50 minutes, until the edges have pulled away from sides and a cake tester inserted comes out clean.
4. Cool on cake rack for 3 hours. Fill cake and frost sides with cream cheese frosting.

Shahi Tukra

bread slices--10 no.
ghee-- to fry
sugar--100gm
rabri or condensed milk--115gm
khoya-- 115gm
milk--a little
silver leaves--16no
cardamom small--4no.
saffron color--few drops
kewra essence or rose water--few drops
pistachio nuts--15gm

Remove the crust of bread slices and deep fry to golden fry color. Heat milk add sugar. Add fried bread slices when it is quiet thick. Add condensed milk and all the ingredients except nuts and silver leaves. Cook on slow fire till milk becomes very thick. Arrange the bread slices in plates. Pour rest of the milk mixture over it, cover with silver leaves, sprinkle shredded nuts on top and serve warm
NOTE: Sugar should be put according to the sweetness required.

Gaujas

flour--115gm
fat--30gm
salt--a pinch
cardamom--4no.
sugar--115gm
water(syrup)30ml
lime juice--few drops

Mix flour and salt and prepare a stiff dough using little water. Divide into oval sized balls. Roll out into thin poories about 3" in diameter. Make slits in the center taking care that the ends are not separated.Roll from either sides to the center, fold ends and twist. Deep fry in hot fat, remove and dip in prepared sugar syrup. Sprinkle crushed cardamom over.

NOTE: Powdered sugar may also be sprinkled over fried gaujas while they are still hot, instead of putting them in syrup.