{"id":40683,"date":"2017-06-15T04:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=40683"},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:03:55","slug":"baked-carrot-cake-doughnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/baked-carrot-cake-doughnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Baked Carrot Cake Doughnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rir-row\"><div class=\"rir-cols-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image001.gif\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Quick and easy cake bites made from pur\u00e9ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findusfoods.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Findus Baby Carrots<\/strong><\/a> garnished with traditional carrot cake toppings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Makes:<\/strong> 12<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong> easy<br \/>\n<strong>Preparation time:<\/strong> 30 minutes + cooling time<br \/>\n<strong>Cooking time:<\/strong> 25 minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carrot Cake Doughnuts<br \/>\n<\/strong>250g (\u00bd bag) <strong>Findus Baby Carrots<\/strong>, cooked<br \/>\n2 large eggs<br \/>\n\u00bd C (125 ml) olive oil<br \/>\n80 ml (\u2153 C) golden syrup<br \/>\n\u2154 C (160 ml \/ 130 g) brown sugar<br \/>\n1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla essence<br \/>\n\u00bd C (125 ml) sour cream<br \/>\n1\u00bc C (310 ml \/ 155 g) self-raising flour<br \/>\nzest of 1 orange<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icing<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00bc C (60 ml \/ 30 g) icing sugar<br \/>\n\u00bc C (60 ml \/ 60 g) plain cream cheese, at room temperature<br \/>\n4 tsp (20 ml) warm water<br \/>\n\u00bd tsp (2.5 ml) vanilla essence<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Serve<br \/>\n<\/strong>100 g walnuts, toasted and finely chopped<br \/>\n80 g white chocolate, made into curls<br \/>\nfresh mint leaves, to garnish (optional)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carrot Cake Doughnuts<br \/>\n<\/strong>Preheat the oven to 160 \u00b0C.<br \/>\nGrease a doughnut pan with non-stick cooking spray.<br \/>\nPlace the cooked <strong>Findus Baby Carrots<\/strong>, eggs, olive oil, syrup, sugar and vanilla in a food processor and blend for 1 minute until pur\u00e9ed and smooth.<br \/>\nWhisk in the sour cream, flour and zest until smooth.<br \/>\nPlace the mixture in a measuring jug and pour into the doughnut pans.<\/p>\n<p>Bake for 12-15 minutes until firm and cooked through. Leave the cake doughnuts in the tins for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Leave to cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icing<br \/>\n<\/strong>Whisk all of the ingredients for the icing together until smooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Serve<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dip the top of each cooled doughnut into the icing and allow the excess to drip back into the bowl. Place on a cooling rack that has been set over a tray and scatter the chopped walnuts and chocolate curls on top. Garnish with mint (optional).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip:<\/strong> To make white chocolate curls, use a vegetable peeler to peel off chocolate curls from the sides of a bar of white chocolate. Warm the sides of the bar up with the palm of your hand to make peeling the curls off easier. Refrigerate the curls until needed.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more delicious recipe inspiration\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FinSub17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>subscribe to the Findus newsletter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rir-row\"><div class=\"rir-cols-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image001.gif\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick and easy cake bites made from pur\u00e9ed Findus Baby Carrots garnished with traditional carrot cake toppings. Makes: 12 Difficulty: easy Preparation time: 30 minutes + cooling time Cooking time: 25 minutes Carrot Cake Doughnuts 250g (\u00bd bag) Findus Baby Carrots, cooked 2 large eggs \u00bd C (125 ml) olive oil 80 ml (\u2153 C) golden syrup \u2154 C (160 ml \/ 130 g) brown sugar 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla essence \u00bd C (125 ml) sour cream 1\u00bc C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4582,4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-page","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}