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Carrot cake

  • 1 hour
  • 12 persons
Rated 4.5 out of 5
(2)

Ingredients

  • 200 g liquid margarine
  • 200 g Jakobsens Agave Syrup - Dark
  • 200 g brown flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 100 g pine nuts
  • 50 g hazelnut flakes
  • 300 g grated carrot
  • 275-300 g wheat flour
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • Cream cheese glaze:
  • 200 g natural cream cheese
  • 2 tbsp. water
  • 50 g icing sugar (1 dl)
  • 2 tsp. finely grated lemon zest (unsqueezed)
  • 2 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • Garnish:
  • Chopped nuts
  • Finely grated lemon peel or carrot

Preparation

Cake:

1. Beat margarine with agave syrup and brown sugar until fluffy.

2. Beat in the eggs one at a time, add the pine nuts, hazelnut flakes and grated carrot. Stir in the sifted flour and baking powder.

3. Put the dough in a greased round cake tin (26 cm in diameter).

4. Bake the cake in a convection oven at 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes. or 200 degrees in a conventional oven for 1 hour.

5. Cool the cake and decorate with cream cheese icing.

Cream cheese icing:

1. Cut the cream cheese into small pieces and mix well with water, icing sugar, lemon zest and juice. Measure the icing sugar accurately; too much and the icing will be thin.

2. Spread the icing on the cold carrot cake and garnish with chopped nuts and grated lemon peel or carrot.

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