Orange Carrot Pastry
Orange Carrot Pastry is an Indo western fusion dessert recipe. It combines famous Indian dessert Gajar ka halwa and western dessert citrusy orange cake. I have used the cinnamon sauce as the pastry garnish. Try this Indo western dessert and you will be surprised.
Servings: 5 people
Ingredients
For Cake Sheet
- 100 gm Whole Wheat Flour
- 80 ml Condensed Milk
- 120 ml Milk
- 20 ml Oil
- 20 gm Butter
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 50 ml Orange Juice
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Vinegar
- 1/8 tsp Salt
For Layering and Garnishing
- 50 ml Condensed Milk
- 2 tbs Milk
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
- 2 tbs Pistachio
- 2 tbs Raisins
- 2 tbs Cranberries
- 200 gm Gajar Ka Halwa
Instructions
- For cinnamon sauce, In a non-stick pan take 2 tbs of milk. Heat it on medium flame. Add cinnamon powder to it and condensed milk. Stir it and cook for 2 min. Sauce is ready. Keep it aside.
- For cake sheet, In a mixing bowl whisk condensed milk, orange juice, butter, oil, and vanilla essence together. They must blend properly with each other.
- Sieve whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in the bowl. Mix dry ingredients with the wet ingredients.
- Add milk to the batter and bring it to smooth and pouring consistency. Now add vinegar to the recipe and keep it aside for 5 minutes.
- Meantime, keep the oven for preheating at 180 °C.
- Line a baking tray of 9”x 11” with parchment paper and pour the batter into the tray.
- Bake it into a preheated oven for 10 min. Once baked, take out the tray from oven and demould the cake. Let the cake sheet rest on wired rack.
- For plating, Using a cookie cutter cut two similar circular cake discs from the cake sheet.
- Place one sheet at the bottom of the bowl. Place same cutter on it and fill it with gajar ka halwa to make another layer. Place the second layer of cake on it.
- Pour the prepared cinnamon sauce and garnish it with chopped fruits and nuts.
- It’s ready to serve.
Notes
- Do not over bake the cake otherwise the cake will become dry and crumbly.
- The recipe is high on calories. If you like to lower down the calorie intake, you can skip Raisins and reduce the amount of Condensed milk in plating. This will lower down the calories per serving to about 30%.