Carrot Cake With Orange

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 285 g butter, softened
• 285 g soft light brown sugar
• 5 large organic eggs, separated
• 1 orange, juice and zest of
• 170 g self raising flour, sifted
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 115 g ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 285 g young carrots, peeled and coarsely grated
• 115 g shelled walnuts, chopped
• 115 g mascarpone cheese
• 225 g cream cheese
• 85 g icing sugar, sifted
• 1 orange, juice and zest of

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c / 350°f / gas 4.
• 2 cream together the butter and sugar by hand or in a food processor until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs and the orange juice and zest.
• 3 mix in the sifted flour and baking powder, add the ground almonds, walnuts and cinnamon then fold in the carrots.
• 4 whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff, then fold them into the flour, nut and cinnamon mix.
• 5 pour into the mould and cook for about 50-55 minutes until golden and risen and a plastic cocktail stick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• 6 allow to cool in the 20" round mould for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire cooling rack and leave to cool for at least 1 hour.
• 7 when your cake is completely cold, make the icing by mixing all the ingredients together then spread over the top of the cake.