Steamed Carrot Cake with Sweet Potato Ice Cream

Recipe Courtesy of Anna Olson

“My inspiration for this dessert isn’t actually a dessert at all, but a name. When visiting the hawker centres in Singapore, I would enjoy eating “carrot cake” which in fact a steamed daikon radish side dish and about as far from a dessert that you can get. 

I love the idea that what I know of as carrot cake is completely different from the hawker version, so I’ve created a dessert where the carrot cake is closer in taste to the dessert I’ve grown up with, but with inspiration taken from the steaming technique, and a little savoury spice addition.”

Steamed Carrot Cake with Sweet Potato Ice Cream

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients

  • ? 150g finely grated peeled carrots
  • ? 90ml vegetable oil
  • ? 150g dark brown sugar
  • ? 30g honey
  • ? 6g finely grated fresh ginger
  • ? 1 large egg
  • ? 1 large egg yolk
  • ? 125g all-purpose flour
  • ? 1.5g ground cinnamon
  • ? 0.75g ground black pepper
  • ? 1.5g baking powder
  • ? 1.25g baking soda
  • ? 1.25g fine salt
  • ? 75g raisins or crushed pineapple (well-drained)

Method

  1. Grease six 150 mL (5-fl.oz) ramekins and place them in a pan with sides that are higher than the ramekins. Preheat the oven to 180 ?C (350 ?F). In a large mixing bowl, whisk the carrots, oil, brown sugar, honey, ginger, egg and egg yolk by hand until evenly blended.
  2. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cinnamon, pepper, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add this to the carrot mixture and stir by hand until evenly combined (the batter will be very wet). Stir in the raisins (or pineapple). Divide this between the prepared ramekins.
  3. Pour boiling hot water around the ramekins so that it comes up halfway and cover the pan with foil or a lid. Bake the carrot cakes for 35-40 minutes, until a tester inserted in the centre of a cake comes out clean. Remove the ramekins immediately onto a cooling rack, and cool the cakes for at least 30 minutes before serving, or they can be served at room temperature. To serve, run a palette knife around the inside edge of each ramekin and turn the cake out onto a plate.
  4. The cake can be served on its own, or with a scoop of ice cream, crème fraiche and/or caramel sauce.
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