Brazilian Carrot Cake

They make carrot cake the right way in Brazil: with chocolate on top!

Ingredients 

• 3 medium sized carrots
• 3 eggs
• ¾ cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups flour
• 1.5 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Topping

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup chocolate powder
• ¼ cup milk
• 50g butter

Method 

Add the carrots, the eggs and the oil in a blender and blend it for at least 5 minutes. In a bowl, mix flour, sugar and baking powder. Pour the carrot-egg-oil puree in to the dry ingredients mixture. Place in a 8-inch cake pan and bake for 45min at 350 F.

For the icing, just mix sugar, chocolate powder, milk and butter in a saucepan and mix it well. When it comes to a boil, wait 1 minute and turn off the heat.