Carrot cake

Fancy an English-style snack? Try our carrot cake: moist and fragrant, it’s sure to delight the whole family!

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EQUIPMENT

Salad bowl
Electric whisk
Cake mould

 

INGREDIENTS

Carrot cake:
300 g grated carrots
150 g flour
100 g La Patelière almond powder
4 eggs
100g sugar
juice of one orange
La Patelière pecan kernels
½ tsp cinnamon powder
½ teaspoon La Patelière baking powder
20g soft butter

Icing :
250 mascarpone
2 tbsp. sweetened condensed milk

Top tip

Add a strip of soft butter on top to make the cake crack in the middle!

Recipe

Let's get baking!

1. Carrot cake:

Preheat oven to 180°C.
Whisk together eggs and sugar. Add the juice of one orange and mix well. Then add the flour, almond powder, cinnamon and baking powder and mix. Add the grated carrots and mix again. Then add the pecans.
Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold gently into the mixture. Pour the mixture into the cake tin. 

appareil carrot

2. Icing

Mix the mascarpone and sweetened condensed milk. Leave to cool, then spread over the top of the cake. Add pecan chips for decoration.

Enjoy!

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