Carrot Orange Cake

I need to get rid of some carrots. It always a bad idea to buy them in a 3 kg bag. 

Oranges I bought in Belgium this Tuesday. They are the other item here.

It is a typical cake baked in a loaftin. Good to freeze too. Maybe it saves me time to bake something for Easter. I just looked at my calender and thought, wow Eastern is in one week!

This is a recipe from Leckerschmecker.

Recipe:

1 organic orange zest and juice

300 g grated carrots

200 g flour

100 g ground hazelnuts

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

150 g sugar

150 g butter soft and unsalted

3 eggs

Glaze:

100 g icing sugar

1/2 organic orange juiced

1 package dried orange peel

Sugar stars to decorate

In a big bowl cream butter and sugar together. Add the eggs one after another stirring in between. Add salt.

Mix flour, hazenuts, baking powder together. Zest the orange and squeeze out the juice. Grate the carrots. Get everything together until you have a smooth batter.

Butter a loaftin (25 cm) and flour it. Pour in the batter and bake 55 to 60 min at 180 C.

Let it sit in the loaftin 10 min, then turn it out on a wire rack. Let it cool down completely.

In a small bowl add the package of dried orange zest and the icing sugar and squeeze just enough orange juice in the bowl to create a thick paste. Put it on the cake and some decor.