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- Level: Easy
- Total: 1 hr 50 min
- Prep: 35 min
- Inactive: 35 min
- Cook: 40 min
- Yield: 8 to 10 servings
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- Level: Easy
- Total: 1 hr 50 min
- Prep: 35 min
- Inactive: 35 min
- Cook: 40 min
- Yield: 8 to 10 servings
Ingredients
Carrot cake:
Mascarpone cream, optional:
Directions
Special equipment:
1 (9-inch) springform or other round cake tin- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line the base of the springform pan with a nonstick silicone liner or baking parchment. Grease the sides with olive oil. Add the pine nuts to a small dry pan and toast them over low heat.
- Grate the carrots in a food processor or with a coarse grater, and put them on a double layer of kitchen towels. Wrap the towels around the carrots to soak up the excess liquid.
- Put the sultanas in a small saucepan with the rum, and bring to the boil over medium heat. Lower the heat and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Whisk the sugar and 1/2 cup of oil in a stand mixer or by hand, until creamily and airily mixed together.
- Whisk in the vanilla and eggs in a large bowl. Fold in the almond meal/flour, nutmeg, grated carrots, golden sultanas (and any rum that clings to them) and finally the lemon zest and lemon juice.
- Scrape the mixture into the prepared cake tin and smooth the surface with a rubber spatula. The batter will be very shallow in the tin.
- Sprinkle with the pine nuts and bake until the top is risen and golden and a cake tester comes out sticky but otherwise more or less clean, about 30 to 40 minutes.
- Remove the cake from the oven and let it sit on a rack for 10 minutes before removing the sides. Let cool until ready to serve. Transfer the cake to a serving platter.
- Combine the mascarpone, confectioners' sugar and rum in a small bowl. Slice the cake and serve with the mascarpone cream.
- Make Ahead Note:
- The cake can be baked up to 3 days ahead. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and store in airtight container in a cool place. Will keep for a total of 5 to 6 days.
- Freeze Note:
- The cake can be frozen (still on base of the tin), carefully wrapped in double layer of plastic wrap and 1 layer of foil, for up to 3 months. Defrost overnight at room temperature.
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