Ingredients -
All purpose flour- 1 cup
Wholewheat flour - 3/4 cup (little more than half)
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Egg - 3
Baking powder - 1 1/3 tsp
Soda bi carb - 1/2 tsp
Dates - cut into pieces 1 cup
Carrot - grated 1/2 cup
Butter - 60 g
Cream ( malai) - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Food colour orange - few drops until u get desired colour
Method -
1. Beat malai and butter until it's very light and fluffy.
2. Add sugar gradually and keep beating it continuously
on full speed from an electric mixer.
3. Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition.
4. Sift the flours, baking powder, soda and add it
gradually in the batter alternating with the milk.
5. Mix all well, add vanilla essence.
6. Divide the batter into two unequal parts, take out
less than half of the batter in another bowl and mix
the grated carrot in it.
7. Now add food colour and chopped dates in the
remaining batter and mix it well.
8 Grease and line a baking tray and spread half of
the orange batter on it evenly,
9. Spread all the carrot mixed batter on it, taking care
to spread evenly over the orange batter.
10. Finally spread the remaining orange batter over
both the layers, covering it all.
11. Bake it on a pre - heated oven for 1/2 an hour or
until baked thoroughly, when inserted with a skewer,
it should come out clean.
12. Take it out from the baking dish, let it cool on a wire
rack for half an hour, cut it into pieces and serve
this tasty and healthy cake.
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