Carrot Cake

Ingredients:

All purpose flour (Maida) – 1.5 cup
Baking soda – 1.5 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Sugar -1 cup
Vanilla essence – 1/2 tsp
Oil – 1/4 cup
Walnut (optional), chopped – 1/4 cup
Raisins – 1/4 cup
Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
Nutmeg powder – 1 tsp
Curd – 1/4 cup
Egg – 1
Milk – 1/4 cup
Grated carrot – 2 cup

Directions:

Pre-heat oven (or microwave oven with convection mode) at 160 degree Celsius.
Grease your 8″ baking tray properly.
Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl except sugar and sieve three times to ensure proper mixing.
Combine egg, oil, curd, milk, sugar and vanilla essence in another bowl and whisk them for a minute.
Add dry ingredients slowly to wet ingredients and mix the batter gently and constantly.
Mix the batter for 1-2 minutes with the hand blender.
Fold in walnuts(chopped), raisins and grated carrot (Remove all water from carrots) in the batter.
Pour the batter into the greased baking pan.
Bake the cake at 160 degree Celsius for 50 minutes or until the inserted toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake.
Cool the cake at room temperature.