Mmmm.... cake

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It`s not often that I bake a cake, but today I am. A friend of mine is celebrating her 30th birthday and requested either cheese cake or carrot cake from me. Ì`m making carrot cake, and feel rather hobbity doing so because I have to do most of the things by hand. I`m not very well equipped in kitchen machines and have to carve (?) the carrots by hand and mix the dough with a handheld mixer. Also I`m not using a cake mix, but doing things from scratch. Now I just hope those who are eating it will think it`s good. :)

Recepie? All right then:

4,5 decilitres flour
4,5 decilitres sugar
6-7 carrots, finely carved
1 teaspoon natron
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
A little nutmeg and a little cardamon
2 decilitres neutral oil
4 eggs

Mix sugar and eggs and then add the rest.

Put in oven for about 30 minutes at 175 C.

Topping
75 grams neutral cheese, like Philadelphia
50 grams butter
A little vanilla sugar or essens for taste
Icing sugar

Enjoy!

Comments

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Yum! I love carrot cake! How did it turn out? And what is natron? And what is essens?

BTW, the word you are looking for is grated. You grated the carrots.

Cream cheese frosting... *drool*

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The cake turned out great, but it was too little topping I think. Or I didn`t make it sweet enough and didn`t use enough icing sugar.

Essence is bottled down flavour that you pour out in drops.
Natron... Oh, that is difficult. It is something that you use instead of baking powder or yeast in things where you use sour milk products like sour cream, and it makes air bubbles in the dough, it also neutralizes acids. I hope that helped. I don`t have another word for it really. It is made of natriumcarbonate.

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Here we use baking soda. It's made from sodium bicarbonate. I'll bet they are interchangeable. A lot of people baking soda with water and drink it for indigestion (heart burn). Yuck!
And I think what you call essence is what we call vanilla extract.
Cool! We all learn something new every day. :)