1/2 c Blanched whole almonds
-without skins
1 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
2 md Carrots,peeled,cut 1/2″piece
1/2 c Unsalted butter, softened
1 c Sugar
pn Salt
3 lg Eggs,separated
1 tb Freshly grated lemon peel
-requires 1 1/2 lemons
1 ts Fresh lemon juice
1/4 ts Vanilla extract
1/8 ts Cream of tartar
GARNISH
Confectioners’ sugar
Lemon peel twists
Source: Woman’s Day 9/96 issue
Note:*Make this cake a day or two before you plan to serve it so the
mild, not-too-sweet flavor can mellow.
1. Heat oven to 350 degree F.
Grease an 8-inch layer-cake pan. Line bottom with waxed paper.
Grease
paper.
2. Put almonds in a food processor and pulse until coarsely ground.
Transfer to a small bowl. Add flour and baking powder. Stir to mix.
Without washing processor, pulse carrots until finely chopped (you
will have about 3/4 cup).
3. Beat butter, sugar and salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer,
until pale and creamy. Beat in yolks, one at a time. Beat in lemon
juice and vanilla. Stir in lemon peel, then flour mixture. When
blended
stir in carrots.
4. With clean beaters beat egg whites until foamy. Add cream of
tartar and
continue beating until soft peaks form when beaters are lifted.
Fold
whites into butter mixture one third at a time. Scrape batter into
prepared pan.
5. Bake until golden brown and a tooth-pick inserted in center comes
out
clean, 40-45 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Invert cake on
rack
and peel off paper. Place cake right side up on serving plate.
Dust with confectioners’ sugar and garnish with lemon twists.
Serves 8. Per serving: 400 cal, 8 g.pro, 43 g.car, 23 g.fat, 111
mg.chol with butter, 31 mg.chol with margarine, 279 mg.sod.
Exchanges: 1 1/2 starch, 2 1/4 other car, 2 2/3 fat
From the recipe files of suzy@gannett.infi.net
Yields
8 Servings