Carrot cake

Carrot cake

To bake a carrot cake, prepare the following foods:

• grated carrots - 300 g


• soft butter - 300 g


• brown sugar - 300 g


• flour - 200 g


• powdered sugar - 200 g


• ground almonds - 120 g


• ground walnuts - 120 g


• eggs - 5 pcs.


• lemon or orange - 1 pc.


• vanilla sugar - 1 sachet


• baking powder - 1 sachet


• a pinch of salt


• cinnamon to taste

Separate the proteins from the yolks. Whisk the butter with 200 g of sugar, cinnamon, vanilla sugar, salt and zest of one orange or lemon to make a soft cream. Add yolks into it. In another mixing bowl, sprinkle the spruce with flour, add to it the ground walnuts and almonds. In a third bowl, whisk the squirrels with 100 grams of sugar to hard peaks.

Then, connect the contents of all three bowls andgrated carrot on a small grater. Note that the proteins need to be mixed very carefully. The best thing for these purposes is a shovel made of silicone. Transfer the finished dough into a greased form and bake the cake for an hour in a heated oven to 180-190 ° C.

While baking the cake, prepare the icing, whipping the powdered sugar with the juice of one orange or lemon. Finish the cake with glaze and serve to the table.

Bon Appetit!