Swiss Carrot Cake
By Greg
Total Time: 0 min
Swiss Carrot Cake
This traditional Swiss carrot cake is easy to make and delicious to eat.
Recipe Details
Serves: 4 people
Difficulty: Easy
Created 13 April, 2004
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Ingredients
Instructions
- Grease a 25cm springform cake tin. Preheat the oven to moderately hot 190°C. Whisk all the egg yolks with the sugar, salt, cinnamon, and cloves, until thick and creamy.
- Mix together the carrots, ground almonds, hazelnuts, breadcrumbs and the flour sifted with the baking powder. Stir these ingredients into into the egg yolk mixture.
- Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold in.
- Turn the cake mixture into the prepared tin, smooth over and bake for 45-55 minutes.
- When done cooking, turn the cake out on a wire rack to cool, cover and leave it for 2 days.
- Mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice, and use it to ice the top of the cake.
