Baking
Carrot Cake
Ingredients
- For the cake:
- 350g whole wheat flour
- 200g of melted and cooled Kerrygold Pure Irish Salted Butter
- 250g ground almonds
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 250g sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- A pinch of salt
- Zest and juice of a lemon
- 300g carrots, grated
- 4 eggs (M)
- For the icing:
- 100g icing sugar
- 2-3 tbsp of lemon juice or water
- 75g pistachios, chopped
- 12 marzipan carrots for decorating
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C, thoroughly grease a 28 cm springform pan. Melt the butter in a small saucepan and then let it cool.
- Put the flour, almonds, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon, salt and lemon zest in a bowl and stir thoroughly with a whisk.
- Now separate the eggs and beat the egg whites until stiff.
- Add the egg yolks, butter, lemon juice and grated carrots to the dry ingredients and stir with a spatula until all the ingredients are moist. The dough is then still relatively heavy.
- Carefully fold the egg whites into finished dough.
- Pour the dough into the prepared baking dish, smooth it out and bake it on the middle shelf for about 45-55 minutes. Don't forget the stick test!
- Take the finished cake out of the oven and let cool in the tin for about 15 minutes. Then remove from the mould and let cool completely on a wire rack.
- Mix the icing sugar with the water or lemon juice and pour over the cake. Decorate with chopped pistachios and marzipan carrots.
- Enjoy!
