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The carrot cake is known as carrot cake in America and is very popular around the world, especially around Easter time. In this article, we will show you how you can enjoy carrot cake gluten-free.
Gluten-free carrot cake – this is how it works
If you want to try the delicious carrot cake but suffer from gluten intolerance, you can try this recipe for a gluten-free carrot cake.
- You will need for the cake: 250 grams of carrots, 6 eggs, 175 grams of sugar, 200 grams of ground hazelnuts and 100 grams of ground almonds, 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs (gluten-free), 1 tablespoon of gluten-free flour, such as teff flour or buckwheat flour, and also a teaspoon each baking powder and cinnamon.
- First, preheat the oven to 170°C top and bottom heat, and line your springform pan with baking paper.
- Then peel and grate your carrots.
- Now separate the eggs and beat the yolks with the sugar. Also, beat the egg whites until fluffy.
- Put the fluffy beaten egg white on the egg yolk and sugar mixture and add the remaining ingredients.
- Then carefully mix all the ingredients together. It is best to use a spatula for this.
- Then fill the dough into the springform pan and let the cake bake in the oven for about an hour.
- When it’s done, let it cool in the tin and only remove it when it’s no longer warm.
This is how you can decorate your carrot cake
Carrot cakes are often decorated in a very similar way. Of course, you have a free choice regarding the decoration and you can adapt it to your taste.
- For the classic carrot cake decoration, you need white couverture, marzipan carrots, and nuts of your choice.
- Melt the couverture in a water bath and pour it over the whole cake.
- Then spread the marzipan carrots on top sideways so that each piece of cake gets a carrot.
- If you want, you can finally spread nuts on the cake.
