Icelandic Carrot Cake

The Real Icelandic Experience 

Or: "How To Make 2 Swedes Come Every Day to Your Cafe"

Only the icing is missing...

accompanied by Zucchero for letting your dreaming float while baking 

What you need to make this heavenly piece: 

250g butter, softened

250g brown sugar

5 eggs, separated

zest and juice of 1 orange

1 1/4 cup canola oil

1 tsp bakin powder

100g almonds, chopped

100g walnuts, chopped

170g flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

250g carrots, peeled and grated

sea salt

more or less 2 tbs cacao

Ice, baby, Ice ice.... {Icing}:

150g mascarpone cheese

200g cream cheese

100g icing sugar, sifted

zest and juice of 1 lime

2 teaspoons pure vanilla

2 teaspoons lemon zest

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Beat the butter and brown sugar until fluffy and then you beat the egg yolks in one by one. Add the orange zest and juice as well as the cacao (I added this as when in the cafe in Iceland, the cake was quite dark. As I have not figured out why that was the case, I decided to go for this ingredient). Stir in the shifted flour, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla and cinnamon. Add the chopped almonds and walnuts and mix together with the grated carrots as well. 

2. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff, then fold them into the cake mix. Scoop the mixture into a buttered cake tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes until golden and risen.

3. ...While the cake starts growing, you might as well do the creeeeeam cheese icing topping... Here look that the butter is SOFT and mix all the ingredients together....

Don't forget to butter the baking-tin

4. Leave the cake to cool for one hour until you put on the icing OR start cutting it, depending on what style you want (either icing in between and on top or only on top). If you decide for the 2nd option slice with a thin serrated knife off the very top of the cake. Do this by using a sawing motion.Then cut the cake in 2 or 3 equal layers. Slide the layers onto a cardboard round or any other flat surface. The false bottom of a tart pan works perfectly. Using an spatula spread the frosting evenly over the surface of the first layer. Repeat for the rest of the layers.

Thank you Zoe bakes for this great Carrot Cake recipe, that I altered a bit to make it Icelandic!

Juicy and rich carrot cake

Voilà

Enjoy!