Juicy marzipan-carrot cake

Name: Juicy marzipan-carrot cake
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 150 g Marzipan raw mass; 250 g soft butter or margarine; 175 g Sugar; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 5 Eggs (size M); 2 medium-sized carrots (à approx. 100 g); 2 medium sized apples (about 200 g each); 500 g Flour; 1 package Baking Powder; 7-10 Tbsp green food coloring; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 1

150 g Marzipan raw mass
250 g soft butter or margarine
175 g Sugar
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
1 package Vanillin sugar
5 Eggs (size M)
2 medium-sized carrots (à approx. 100 g)
2 medium sized apples (about 200 g each)
500 g Flour
1 package Baking Powder
7-10 Tbsp green food coloring
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

1
Finely dice 100 g marzipan. Cream fat with marzipan, sugar, lemon peel and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer. Add the eggs bit by bit. Clean and peel the carrots. Peel and quarter 1 apple and remove the core.
2
Coarsely grate carrots and apple and fold into the fat-egg mixture. Mix flour and baking powder and fold into the fat-egg mixture. Pour the dough into a greased and floured springform pan with a tube bottom form (26 cm Ø). Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 45-50 minutes. Take out, let cool down for about 10 minutes, remove springform pan. Let cool completely for about 30 minutes. In the meantime, colour the remaining marzipan with the food colouring and form into a roll (approx. 3 cm Ø). Cut off slices about 1 cm thick and form leaves as desired. Wash the remaining apple, quarter it and remove the core. Cut apple into slices.
3
Let cool completely for about 30 minutes. In the meantime, colour the remaining marzipan with the food colouring and form into a roll (approx. 3 cm Ø). Cut off slices about 1 cm thick and form leaves as desired. Wash the remaining apple, quarter it and remove the core. Cut apple into slices. Decorate the cake with the apple slices and leaves and dust with icing sugar. Results in about 16 pieces