Italian Almond and Carrot Cake …..adulterated from Cuisine.com.au and Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion, published by Lantern.
Healthy, moist and quite delicious this cake is perfect if you need to use up the leftover carrots lying in the bottom of the fridge ( which you bought on Monday to start your diet.)
It can also be baked in 10 greased and baking-paper-lined holes of a 12-hole muffin tin. In this case, fill each hole two-thirds full with batter, then scatter a few pine nuts over each one. Little cakes will take about 20 minutes to cook until firm and golden on top.
Watch out: the mixture wants to stick to the tin so baking paper is essential.
You need for 10 shoppers, 5 teenage boys or 40 models:
20g butter, for greasing
3/4 cup raw almonds
125g (1 or 2 depending on their size) carrots, peeled
2 tbsp self-raising flour
Finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon ( or a quarter of preserved lemon rind)
2 free-range eggs, separated
125g Castor sugar
2 tbsp pine nuts
- Slip out Burberry puffa jacket.
- Pull on Calvin Klein slip dress.
- Pour a glass of wine or ten.
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Melt butter in a frying pan over low heat.
- Using a pastry brush, grease a 22cm x 10cm loaf tin with melted butter, then line with baking paper and grease again. Think SKII face mask.
- It’s essential not to think of wearing bikini at this stage.
- Find the whizzer and whiz almonds to form a fine powder. Tip: pull out a handful so you have a few chunky pieces.
- Throw almonds into a mixing bowl.
- Now grate carrots with the whizzer or ask George Clooney to get grating.
- He can now zest the lemons as well.
- Toss in carrots with the almonds and then throw in the flour and lemon zest.
- Mix well, using your fingers to make sure there are no lumps. Same as you would to your thighs.
- Beat egg yolks and sugar until thick as Paris Hilton and as pale as Karen Elson
- Stir in carrot mixture using a slotted spoon if you have one.
- Scrape the mixture into a large mixing bowl.
- Then ask George to quickly wash and dry electric beaters and bowl.
- So you can whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form. George loves a stiff peak.
- Gently fold the egg whites into carrot batter gently. Think folding a Prada silk blouse.
- Spoon the gooey batter into loaf tin.
- Accessorise it with a scattering pine nuts over the batter.
- Bake cake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Leave cake to cool in tin for a few minutes before running a knife around edges and turning out on to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Quite fabulous and so healthy!
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