The Italian Carrot Cake is a delicate, tasty and very soft recipe, very different from all other carrot cakes. A typical Italian recipe, the “Camilla” Carrot cake is a classic of Italian families’ snacks and breakfasts.
But why is this cake called Camilla? In Italy this recipe is called “Camilla” for a well-known brand of Italian snacks that produced this dessert and gave it this name…
Ingredients for a 22 cm diameter Carrot Cake:
200 grams of white flour
250 grams of fresh carrots 🥕
200 grams of white sugar
100 grams of chopped almonds
3 whole eggs 🥚
The zest and juice of an orange 🍊
150 grams of sunflower Oil 🌻
16 grams of baking powder for pastry 🥮
1 pinch of salt 🧂
To start, peel the fresh carrots and cut them into cubes. Put the diced carrots in the mixer with sunflower oil and the chopped almonds, mix well until you get a smooth and homogeneous cream.
At this point, put the whole eggs and white sugar in the mixer bowl and mix well until the mixture is puffy and well blended.
Once the eggs are whipped with the sugar, add the carrot and almond cream obtained previously and mix well at medium speed.
Scrape the zest of a whole orange and add it to the dough while continuing to mix.
Immediately after, add the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt and mix again.
Finally add the juice of an orange and mix until all the ingredients are well combined.
As you can see it is a very quick recipe and the flavor of the Camilla carrot cake will surprise you.
pour the dough into a buttered 22 cm diameter cake pan with no stick paper.
Put in a preheated oven for 50 minutes at 180 degrees and that’s it!!! Enjoy your meal!!!!
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