Carrotcake
Why I Love This Recipe
a juicy surprice cake.. made it for my 33. Birthday last Sunday :o)
Ingredients You'll Need
125g Butter
190g Sugar
1 Egg
250g Carrots
1 Lemon
1 Tsp Vanill-sugar
1 Tsp Zinnamon
400g Floor
2 Tsp Baking Powder
Salt
70g Almond-powder
125ml Milk
220g Aprikose-marmelade
2 Eggwhite
400g Powdered sugar
2-3 drops of green Foodcolour
Sugarflowers for decoration
Directions
Preheat the Oven to 180C (160C with air-circulation).
Mix together untill creamy the Butter and Sugar.
Add the Egg / Eggyolk, the coarsely grated Carrots, the Juice and the paring of the Lemon and the vanille-sugar to the batch.
In another Bowl mix Floor, Baking Powder, Cinnamon and Salt together.
Mix these dry indegriends by turns with the milk to the batch. At last add the grounded Almonds.
At last add the stiff whisked eggwhite.
Bake in a 18cm spring form for around 50 minutes.
Let the cake cool down.
Warm up the Apricot jam and coat the cake with it.
In another bowl mix together the powdered sugar with the white from egg and the food colour, for a better taste of the icing add vanille or lemonjuice.
After you have the right colour spread the icing on the cake and place the sugar flowers immediately.
