Carrot halwa cake is a fusion recipe that uses a traditional Indian dessert as the topping for a flavorful cake. It has such an incredible mixture of flavors and textures!
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Carrot halwa cake is a fusion recipe that uses traditional Indian dessert (Gajar Halwa which is a cardamom scented carrot fudge like dessert) as the topping for a flavorful cake. It has such an incredible mixture of flavors and textures! Glutenfree option

Carrot halwa is an Indian dessert made with shredded carrots cooked down with sugar and milk. They caramelize into this amazing, roasted carrot flavor. It is often flavored cardamom, and it has some roasted nuts and raisins in it. 

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Carrot Halwa is usually made in springtime with the first crop of juicy, red carrots. Red carrots are generally not easily available here, so I end up using orange. But if you can find some red carrots, they are amazing. You can also use a mix of the orange and purple carrots, which also works amazingly for this carrot halwa cake.

For the cake, we cook the shredded carrots with a little bit of cardamom, lime zest, and maple syrup until they are just al dente, and then we add it to the cake. This helps the carrots cook and caramelize when baking for the delicious caramelized flavor and texture.

If you add the carrots directly to the cake, they do get cooked, but they’ll have more of a steamed carrot kind of flavor...