Carrot cake with chocolate icing | Spicy Kitchen

Easy to make Brazilian Carrot Cake in Pressure Cooker

Carrot cake is very easy to make and requires no special ingredients. I have already posted simple Carrot Cake in pressure cooker. In this recipe I used same method to prepare the carrot cake and the additional part is chocolate icing. Preparing chocolate icing is also very simple. This carrot cake is a good option for kids party. Garnishing the cake with gems also give a beautiful look to the cake. Hope you all will like this recipe. Please try it out and let me know how it turned out for you.

Ingredients

1 cup of All purpose flour(maida)
2 no of medium carrots
2 no of eggs
1 cup of sugar
¾ cup of oil
1 spn. of baking powder

Chocolate icing

2 spn. of coco powder
2 spn. of powdered sugar
1/4 cup of milk
3 spn. of butter

Method

Step 01

Cleans and wash carrots. Chop in to small pieces

Step 02

Grind carrots along with oil, sugar and eggs to smooth paste.

Step 03

Take all purpose flour and baking powder in a bowl. Mix well with hands and Sieve the flour mix twice.

Step 05

Add the grounded carrot mixture and stir well.

Step 06

Grind the batter for 2-3 minutes.

Step 07

Grease cake tray with butter or ghee and pour the batter. Leave 1 inch free space.

Step 08

Take pressure cooker and place a steel bowl inside.

Step 09

Place the cake try carefully on the top of that bowl

Step 10

Cook for 1 minute in high flame (Do not put weight while baking cake). Reduce the flame and bake for 30-40 minutes. Insert a toothpick at the center of cake and if it is comes out clean, cake is ready otherwise again cook for 5 more minutes.

Chocolate icing

Step 1

Take coco powder,powdered sugar,milk and butter in a non stick pan.

Step 2

Switch on the flame and cook for 3-4 minutes. Stir continuously.

Step 3

When the batter becomes a thick batter consistency,remove from fire and pour over cake

Step 4

Garnish with gems or any other toppings of you wish.