Recipe

Swiss Carrot Cake Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Chriesi / All my dishes 1 year ago When I moved to Switzerland this cake became my absolut favourite dessert. Prep:15m Cook:60m Servings:12	Chriesi
	carrot cinnamon cake swiss

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Ingredients

200 g grated almond

200 g grated hazelnut

3 zwiebacks

250 g carrots

25 g flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

8 eggs

350 g sugar

50 g powder sugar

16 g vanilla

a pinch of salt

1 tablespoon cinnamon

3 tablespoons sherry

Directions

Preheat oven to 170°C.

Grate carrots on the smalles hole of the grater.

Crumble zwieback, add flour, baking powder, hazelnut and almond.

Separate eggs.

Mix egg yolks fluffy with sugar, vanilla, salt. Add cinnamon and sherry.

Beat egg white with powder sugar.

Add grated carrot to egg yolk mixture.

Add flour and nut mix to the egg yolk mixture.

Add egg white.

Butter a form and bake it for 60 minutes.

Traditonally there is a shiny sugar glaze on top and marzipan carrots.

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Comments

ahmed1 1 year ago said:
Hey,what is that recipe.It is really new one for carrot cake.I liked the nuts addition.It really sounds great.From where did you get this one?

chriesi 1 year ago said:
Well I do not remember from where I have it. But that is the traditional way of making it here in Switzerland with the nuts.