Baking makes me Happy !!

I keep running around like a headless chicken all day long for my work and by the end of the day all i can think of is my couch, my TV remote in my hand and a bowl full of soup

(which i can just gulp down my throat and fill my belly). 

Nevertheless when the master-chef in me wakes up from its slumber i do indulge a bit of cooking and baking ! So yesterday was one such day ! i decided to make a CARROT CAKE !

As Donna Hayes would say it it was FAST FRESH and SIMPLE !!

so here is what i used and did. 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup normal olive oil 

2 table spoons walnuts - broken by hand into bits 

2 cups of grated carrots

1/2 cup raisins/sultanas

3/4 cup of coarsely ground sugar

1 tea spoon vanilla extract/essence

3 eggs 

2 1/2 cups of plain flour ( you can do some portion of almond meal if you like the cake a                                           little grainy )

1 tea spoon of baking powder

Method:

In a food processor (you can also also mix with a whisk or hand blender) whisk the oil and sugar to make a creamy paste, then add the eggs and vanilla and whisk further. Add the flour, baking powder, carrots and the raisins to the mixture. The mixture looks like a sticky dough. 

Pre heat the oven to 250 degrees and line your baking tin with baking paper( trust me this is the best thing to do, your tin comes out clean and you don't have to scrape the edges of the sticky dough), add a little butter / oil to the baking tin and pour your mixture and add the walnuts on top. Bake in the over at 250 degrees for 25 mins or till your skewers come out clean. 

Let it cool and take it our of the tin. 

                                           

I used a small tin to bake the cake and the left over mixture i used in my cupcake molds to make yummy carrot muffins !

P.S. if you are not patient with the oven you can micro the same mixture in a microwave safe container for 8 mins and get a soft yummy carrot cake !

Do share with me your recipes too !!