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Swiss Carrot Cake Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • 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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  • magali777 16 years ago
    another question, doesn't have any oil or butter?
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  • magali777 16 years ago
    Hi! I don't know either whats a zwieback, can you explain me please?
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  • sparkle 16 years ago
    Whats a 'zwieback'? Is there anything we can substitute if we can't get them?
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  • chriesi 16 years ago
    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.
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    " It was excellent "
    ahmed1 ate it and 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?
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