CARROT CAKES

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).
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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 !