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Carrot cake

Added 10/Sep/2014

source: mom

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1,5 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (koeksoda)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon koekkruiden / mixed spice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 eggs
• Pinch of salt
• 100g chopped nuts (walnuts work well; roughly 3/4 of nuts in cake, other 1/4 on top of icing)
• 0,5 cup grated apple
• 0,5 cup grated carrot
• 0,75 cup oil

Topping:

• 1 thing of mascarpone
• enough icing sugar (100-200g?)

Method

1. Beat eggs, sugar and oil
2. Add apple and carrot
3. Mix all dry ingredients (minus walnuts)
4. Beat 2 minutes with wooden spoon
5. add walnuts
6. Pour into greased tin
7. Bake +/-20min at 190 degrees C (18/4/2013: took about 35 minutes in convection oven at 180)

(maak van gelijke delen mascarpone en poedersuiker een mengsel dat als topping voor op de cake kan dienen. possibly add lemon/zest.)