Carrot and walnut cake
DifficultyMedium
Total time1 hour30 minutes
Servings6
Ingredients
Ingredients
For the carrot cake
- 2 eggs
- 200 g brown sugar
- pinch salt
- 85 g vegetable oil
- 250 g carrots, grated
- 35 g walnuts, chopped
- 125 g flour, sifted
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon, ground
For the topping
- 200 g cream cheese
- 100 g caster sugar
- 50 g pistachio paste
- green food coloring
To decorate
- 250 g marzipan
- orange food coloring
- red food coloring
- 20 g cocoa powder
- 6 tbsp cocoa nibs
Instructions
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and grease six 10x5cm/4x2in disposable rectangular moulds or a six cup muffin tin.
- 2
To make the cake, whisk the eggs, sugar, salt and oil together in a large bowl. Add the carrots, walnuts, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon and fold in to combine.
- 3
Spoon the batter into the moulds or muffin tin and bake for 25 minutes.
- 4
Meanwhile, make the topping. In a bowl combine the cream cheese, sugar and pistachio paste. Add green food colouring, stirring through a drop at a time, until you get an even light-green colour. Set aside until ready to use.
- 5
When cooked, remove the cakes from the oven and set aside to cool. When completely cool, spread the topping over the cakes.
- 6
To decorate, massage the marzipan to soften. Set aside a third of the marzipan. Knead in the orange and a little red food colouring into the remaining marzipan until you have bright-orange ‘carrot’ colour. Mould into mini carrots. Knead the green food colouring into the reserved marzipan, mould it into carrots tops and attach them to the orange ‘carrots’.
- 7
Place them on top of the cake and dust with cocoa powder.
- 8
Along the top of each cake, sprinkle a line of cocoa nibs to look like soil with the green tops of the carrots sticking out.
Equipment
Equipment
- Mould
- Muffin tin
- Bowl
- Grater
- Sieve
Notes
Notes
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Nutrition
Nutrition
Calories | 480 |
Carbohydrates | 74g |
Cholesterol | 59mg |
Fat | 19g |
Fiber | 1.5g |
Protein | 5.5g |
Saturated Fat | 7.9g |
Sodium | 349mg |
Sugar | 52g |
Trans Fat | 0.3g |
Unsaturated Fat | 0.5g |
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