A dessert combining vegetables and dried fruit (almonds) that will surprise your guests.
- Ingredients / for 6 people
+For the cake:
° 300 g grated carrots
° 250 g ground almonds (2 sachets)
° 4 eggs
° 200 g sugar
° 60 g flour
° zest and juice of half a lemon
° 1/2 sachet of yeast
° 1 pinch of salt
° butter for the mold
+The icing:
° 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
° 150 g icing sugar
° 1 egg white
- PREPERATION
1 Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Peel and grate the carrots, so as to obtain 300 g.
2Mix the sugar and egg yolks until the mixture turns white. Add the zest, juice of half a lemon, grated carrots, ground almonds, flour, salt and baking powder one by one. Mix well between each ingredient.
3Beat the egg whites until stiff. Sweetly in-corporate them to dough.
4But butter and flour a springform pan. Pour in the preparation and cook for 40 to 50 minutes (depending on the oven).
5
When the cake is cooked, take it out of the oven, let it cool and unmold it.
To finish
The icing: Combine the lemon juice, icing sugar and egg white. Spread on the cake and let dry.
Enjoy !