Sunday 22 December 2013

Sweet dreams are made of this...

... sugar, cinnamon, orange. For me these are the flavors of the Christmas season, as many of the Portuguese Christmas sweets have at least one of them. Especially cinnamon! Whenever I smell cinnamon, I smell Christmas!

Recently I have made one of the most popular sweets in the Portuguese cuisine at this time of the year for the Portuguese Christmas Party in Singapore, called "carrot cakes". The literal translation would actually be "carrot dreams" and they are nothing more nothing less than fried batter. Traditionally, they are either made with carrots or pumpkin. This time I used carrots, but they can be replaced by pumpkin.

Last year I posted a recipe to prepare the carrot cakes, but now I´ve tried a new one that I think to be even better. Here´s how to...

Ingredients

750 gr carrots
370 gr sugar
370 gr flour
3 eggs
Peel of 1 orange
Juice of 1 orange
1 tea spoon of baking powder
Oil to fry the cakes, sugar and cinnamon

Peel the carrots and boil them together with the orange peel until they are soft. Drain the water, remove the peel and puree the carrots. Then add all the ingredients by the following order: sugar, orange juice, eggs and finally flour, always mixing (it´s better if you use a mixing machine). The batter should rest for a few hours. Then deep fry table spoons of the batter (max 5 minutes), remove the excess oil and roll the cakes a mix of sugar and cinnamon.

The carrot cakes are ready to be savored!






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