The Easy Lemon Cake

Ingredients :
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1stick) softened butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon grated lemon or lime zest
6 large eggs
3/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup icing sugar

Directions :
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degree Fahrenheit. Butter a 9-inch baking pan. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl. Beat the butter, sugar and lemon zest in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy.
2. Add the eggs, one at a time, until just blended after each addition. With mixer at low speed, gradually beat in the dry ingredients, alternating with the sour cream. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool the cake completely in the pan on a rack. Dust with the icing sugar. Enjoy!!!

The Carrot Brownies

I have one exotic brownies recipe, it's exotic because I use carrots rather than flour.

Ingredients :

300 gr dark cooking chocolate
25 gr flour sugar
75 gr margarine
75 gr unsalted butter
5 eggs (the red part only)
75 gr grated carrots
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
75 gr almond powder
5 eggs (the white part, mixing until stiff)
25 gr sliced almond, baked

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)

• Steam the dark cooking chocolate, add the sugar, margarine and butter. Stir well
• Add eggs (the red one) one by one. Stir well
• Add grated carrots, cinnamon, almond powder, and eggs (white parts). Stir it with rubber spatula. Pour into prepared pan
• Put the sliced almond on top of it
• Bake in the preheated oven in 50 minutes with au bain marie way.

Au bain marie : (also known as a water bath) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time


Nutrition info (per portion)

Energy : 151.8 Cal
Fat : 11.75 gr
Cholesterol : 56.2 mg
Carbs : 11.25 gr