Description
Sweet Brazilian carrot cake swirls with denser dark chocolate. Topped with a silky cocoa glaze.
Ingredients
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Cake
- 170 -200g carrots, peeled
- 4 large eggs
- 250 g (1 1/4 cups) sugar
- 200 g (1 cup) oil
- 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
- 240 g (2 cups) flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 40 g (1/2 cup) cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Glaze
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 generous pinch of salt
Instructions
Cue Up The Episode!
Make sure you listen to B's episode, Brazilian Chocolate Cake, German Chocolate, and Italian Arts while you make her delicious Carrot and Chocolate Marbled Cake with Silky Cocoa glaze!
Make The Recipe
- Preheat the oven to 350°F / 175°C.
- Grease and flour a large bundt pan. (*see notes)
- Sift the flour and baking powder together in a small bowl.
- Mix the cocoa powder and baking soda in another small bowl.
- Add to a blender the eggs, carrots, sugar, oil, and salt.
- Blend until smooth and there are only tiny flecks of carrot.
- Gently fold the sifted flour and baking powder into the oil and carrot mixture, incorporating delicately.
- Transfer one-third of the batter to a smaller bowl. Now mix the cocoa powder and baking soda into the batter.
- Pour half of the carrot cake mixture into the pan.
- Spoon the chocolate mixture on top.
- Finally, pour the last half of the carrot cake mixture into the pan.
- Using a knife, swirl the 2 mixtures together.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Allow to rest in the pan for 15 minutes.
- Turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- Make sure you listen to B's episode, Brazilian Chocolate Cake, German Chocolate, and Italian Arts while you make her delicious Carrot and Chocolate Marbled Cake with Silky Cocoa glaze!
- Another podcast guest, Cheryl Norris, taught me to make a pan release for bundt pans by melting 1 tbsp of flour and 1 tbsp of butter together, then using a pastry brush to paint it onto a bundt pan. It's never failed me!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Baking, Cake, Dessert
- Cuisine: Brazilian, German
Nutrition
- Calories: 783
- Sugar: 70
- Sodium: 888
- Fat: 25
- Saturated Fat: 4
- Carbohydrates: 136
- Fiber: 29
- Protein: 15
- Cholesterol: 74