Carrot Cake with Lime Mascarpone Icing
This delicious recipe is courtesy of Jamie Oliver and can be found in his cookbook, "Cook with Jamie."
Ingredients
Serves 8 to 10.
- 1 1/4 cups unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 2 cups light-brown sugar
- 5 large eggs, separated
- Zest and juice of 1 orange
- 1 slightly heaped teaspoon baking powder
- 1 heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch of ground cloves
- Pinch of ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 cup ground almonds
- 4 ounces shelled walnuts, chopped, plus more for garnish
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour, sifted
- 10 ounces carrots, peeled and coarsely grated
- Sea salt
- 4 ounces mascarpone cheese
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 scant cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
- Zest and juice of two limes
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-2-inch square baking pan and line with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together butter and brown sugar until pale and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, pulsing after each addition. Add orange zest and juice; pulse to combine. Add baking powder; pulse to combine. Add cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger; pulse until mixture is well combined.
- In a large bowl whisk egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff. Gently fold in almonds, walnuts, flour, and carrots; fold cake mixture into egg white mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cake cool in the pan 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- In a medium bowl, mix together mascarpone, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and lime zest and juice. Spread mixture over top of cooled cake and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
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