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🍰 Carrot Orange Cake with Cream Filling
685 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 300 g Carrots
- 6 Eggs
- 200 g Sugar
- 1 Pin Salt
- 1 Organic Orange
- 0.5 tsp Ginger powder
- 150 g Ground walnuts
- 100 g Ground macadamia nuts
- 125 g Flour
- 100 g Soft butter
- 4 tbsp Vanilla sugar
- 200 g Powdered sugar
- 225 g Cream cheese
- 70 g Candied ginger sticks
- 10 Macadamia nuts
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius fan-forced.
- 2. Line the bottom of the springform pan with baking paper.
- 3. Peel the carrots and clean them.
- 4. Grate the carrots finely.
- 5. Separate the eggs into yolks and whites.
- 6. Place the egg yolks in a bowl.
- 7. Add one third of the sugar to the egg yolks.
- 8. Add a pinch of salt.
- 9. Add the orange zest.
- 10. Add the orange juice.
- 11. Add the ginger powder.
- 12. Whisk the mixture until frothy.
- 13. Whip the egg whites until stiff.
- 14. Add the remaining sugar slowly while continuing to whip.
- 15. Continue whipping until a firm meringue forms.
- 16. Mix the nuts with the flour.
- 17. Mix the nut-flour mixture with the grated carrots.
- 18. Take one third of the egg white foam.
- 19. Mix this part of the egg white foam thoroughly with the yolk mixture.
- 20. Add the remaining egg white foam on top.
- 21. Gently fold in the remaining egg white foam.
- 22. Pour the batter into the springform pan.
- 23. Smooth the batter.
- 24. Bake the cake in the preheated oven.
- 25. Whip the butter until creamy.
- 26. Add the vanilla sugar to the butter.
- 27. Add the powdered sugar to the butter.
- 28. Whip the butter-sugar mixture until creamy.
- 29. Stir in the cream cheese gradually.
- 30. Cut the cake horizontally into two halves.
- 31. Cut the halves horizontally again.
- 32. Spread some cream on the cake layers.
- 33. Place the layers back on top of each other.
- 34. Cover the cake with the remaining cream.
- 35. Cut the ginger into strips.
- 36. Garnish the cake with the ginger strips.
- 37. Garnish the cake with the nuts.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 685
- Protein: 12 g · Fett/Fat: 42 g · Carbs: 62 g