FLUFFY GINGER CARROT CAKE
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
[room temperature]
1/2 cup vegetable oil
[mild flavor]
1/2 cup milk
[room temperature]
2 ¼ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ginger powder
2 1/4 cups carrot [grated]
1 tablespoon lemon zest
_ wash and grate carrots
[fine - if you want it fully incorporated into the dough, rough - if you want to see the carrot pieces after baking]
_ butter a spring form [diameter 18-22cm]
_ preheat oven to 180°C
_ sift together flour, baking powder and ginger powder
_ beat sugar with eggs until fluffy
_ add milk, oil and flour mixture
[alternating between small portions of liquid and dry ingredients]
_ mix in lemon zest and vanilla
_ fold in grated carrot [with a wooden spatula]
_ transfer to the baking pan
_ bake for about 45 minutes
_ let cool and dust with powdered sugar
FLAUMIGER INGWER-KAROTTEN-KUCHEN
200 g Zucker
3 Eier
[Zimmertemperatur]
125 ml Pflanzenöl
[geschmacksneutral]
125 ml Milch
[Zimmertemperatur]
290 g Mehl
2 Teelöffel Backpulver
1 Teelöffel Vanille
1 Teelöffel Ingwerpulver
2,25 Tassen Karotte [gerieben]
[gleiches Volumen wie Mehl]
1 Esslöffel Zitronenschale