Nutty Dates and Carrot Cake
Ingredients:
- Thinly chopped dates - 2cups
- Grated
carrot - 11/2cup
- Grated orange
skin - 50gm
- Raisins - 50gm
- Egg - 3nos
- Sugar - 11/2cup
- Refined oil - 11/2cup
- Refined
flour - 2cup
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- Baking
powder - 1tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Ground nutmeg, cardamom & clove - 1tsp
- Cashew
nuts - 150gm
- Ghee - 1tbs
- Brandy - 1tbs
- Orange
juice - 1/4cup
- Vanilla
essence - 1/2tsp
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Method : 
Mix brandy and orange juice.
Soak the chopped dates, carrot, raisins and the grated orange skin in the
brandy-orange juice solution and keep it for 1/2 an
hour.
Sauté the cashew nuts in ghee until light brown
colour and keep it aside. Beat the refined oil, sugar and egg together until
fluffy. Mix the sauted cashew nuts and all the other ingredients in it. Mix it
well for 5 minutes.
Mix the refined flour, baking powder and a pinch of
salt. Add this to the mixture. Also add the fruit solution. Mix them all
together. Bake the cake for about 35 to 40 minutes.
Ingredients for Frosting :
- Sugar
- 1/2cup
- Water
- 1cup
- Icing sugar - 300gm
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- Butter
- 3tbs
- Milk powder - 1cup
- Lime juice - 1/2tsp
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Method :
Melt the sugar in water by keeping it in fire. When
it become a thick syrup, remove it from from and add the icing sugar. After that
add butter to it and stir well. Add lime juice and milk powder to the sugar
syrup and pour it above the cake.
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