Carrot And Almond Cake Food

CARROT ALMOND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put the almonds and sugar in a food processor and chop as finely as possible. Transfer to a large mixing bowl. Break up the ladyfingers into pieces, about an inch long, place them in the food processor and grind to a powder. Add to the almonds and sugar in the mixing bowl. Cut the carrots into pieces about an inch long, and chop in the food processor as finely as possible. Add to the bowl, mixing them well with the other ingredients.
• Add the baking powder, salt, and the Amaretto liqueur and mix well. Add the egg yolks, mixing them in until they are well distributed with the other ingredients.
• Whip the egg whites with an electric mixer or by hand until they form stiff peaks. Take a couple of tablespoons of the beaten egg whites and mix them with the ingredients in the bowl to soften the mixture a bit. Pour the rest of the egg whites onto the mixture and carefully fold them in with a rubber spatula.
• Grease the bottom and sides of a 10 inch springform pan with the butter and dust it with flour. Pour the batter into the pan, then shake the pan a bit until the batter is evenly distributed.
• Place the pan in the upper level of the preheated oven and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out dry when inserted into the cake.
• When the cake is cool, cut it into 8 to 12 pieces and serve with a dollop of whipped cream.

CARROT AND ALMOND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch springform pan. Finely grind the almonds in a nut grinder, coffee grinder or blender.
• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the ground almonds, amaretti and baking powder. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar until pale yellow and creamy, and then stir in the lemon zest and almond extract. Add yolk mixture to the almond mixture, along with the grated carrots, and stir just until combined.
• In a large, clean mixing bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff and gently fold them into the egg mixture. Pour into the prepared pan, and bake on the middle level of the oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool on a rack.
• Run a knife around the sides of the pan, release and transfer cake to a dish. Dust with confectioners' sugar, and serve at room temperature. (It keeps well at room temperature, wrapped in aluminum foil.)

PASSOVER CARROT ALMOND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease bottom of 8" springform pan; dust with cake meal, shaking off excess.
• Using electric mixer, beat yolks and brown sugar in large bowl until slowly dissolving ribbon forms when beaters are lifted, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in carrots and vanilla.
• Using clean, dry beaters, beat whites with salt until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add sugar and beat until whites are stiff but not dry. Gently fold in yolk mixture.
• Combine almonds, 3 tablespoons cake meal and cinnamon.
• Fold gently into egg mixture.
• Turn into prepared pan, smoothing top.
• Bake until tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Immediately run knife around edge.
• Cool completely in pan onrack.
• Remove springform before serving.