Carrot and Cinnamon Sponge Cake with Cinnamon and Walnut Frosting

A healthy homemade cake recipe with the goodness of carrots.

Love this cake that I have been making... hope that you will enjoy it too. 

Ingredients for the Cake

1 1/2 cups All purpose flour(Maida)

3/4 cup  Caster Sugar

1  tsp Baking powder

3/4 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder 

1/4 tsp Salt

1/2 cup Beaten Curd + 1/2 Milk = Butter Milk 

1 tsp Vanilla essence

1/2 cup Grated Carrot 

3/4 cup Butter 

Method

Grease 8 inch square tin with butter. Whisk the butter and sugar together until fluffy.  Add the essence and carrot into the batter and stir the ingredients together. In a bowl sieve flour, baking powder, soda bicarbonate, salt and cinnamon. Sieve all the dry ingredients together. Add little of the flour and buttermilk into the batter and whisk it, continue to add little of buttermilk and flour until the batter is of thick dropping consistency.  Pour this batter into the prepared tin and bake the cake in a  preheated oven at 180 degrees Celcius for 35-40 mins. The baking time varies from oven to oven, hence keep an eye after 30 mins. Insert a toothpick in the center of the cake to check. If the toothpick comes out clean then the cake is done. Remove the tin from the oven and let it sit for 10 mins on the cooking rack.  Run a sharp knife around the edges of the cake and gently turn it upside down onto a wire rack and let it cool completely.

Cinnamon and Walnut  Frosting 

Ingredients 

1 1/2 cups hung Curd

1/2 cup Cream Cheese 

 1/2 cup to 1 cup Icing  sugar as per the sweetness required 

1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder

 2 tbsp Walnut powder 

Method 

Beat the Icing sugar, cinnamon powder, curd and cream cheese  together. Cut the cake horizontally from the centre. Apply the frosting. Sprinkle some walnut powder. Place the top part of the cake on the frosting. Spread the frosting on top of the cake. Sprinkle walnut powder on top of the frosting. Take 3 tbsp of the frosting, add orange colour and mix it. Take a small piping bag and put the frosting in it to make the carrot. Now take another 1 tbsp of the frosting, add green colour and mix it. Put it in a small piping bag to make carrot leaves. First use the green frosting and make leaves for the carrots. Then make the carrot with the help of orange piping bag. Shape and texture it with the help of the blunt knife. Cut the cake into rectangle pieces and enjoy.