Happy Birthday Stacey - Gateau Aux Carottes

Today is Stacey's B-Day.  Monday I was thinking: what kind of cake I should make for Stacey. 

I haven't make carrot cake for a long time.  I got this recipe from my French teacher Lise.  I tried some different carrot cake and banana cake recipes. But nothing better than Lise’s  

I am not a “Sweet” person.  So I changed Lise’s recipe a little bit.  Instead of walnuts, I used hazelnuts. It turned out very good.  Victor tried the edges that I cut off for decoration purpose.  He liked very much. 

Gateau Aux Carottes

2 1/2 cups                 All purpose flour

2 teaspoons              Baking soda

1 teaspoon               Cinnamon

1 teaspoon                Salt

1 cup                         Vegetable oil

1 cup                         Sugar (Lise’s recipe use 2 cups of sugar)

4 large                       Eggs

1 teaspoon                Vanilla extract

4 cups                        Carrot (ground)

1 cup                         Hazelnuts (tossed and finely chopped) (Lise’s recipe use walnuts)

Preheat oven to 350F. In a bowl mix all dry ingredients: flour, baking soda

cinnamon and salt. In another big bowl, pour in oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla

extract; beat with electric mixture till well combined (about 5 minutes).

Corporate mixed wet ingredients with dry ingredients, carrot and hazelnuts.

Pour in a 9” greased and floured baking pan. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes. Insert

a toothpick into the cake, if the toothpick is dry, the cake is done.  Leave the

cake on a rack for 10 minutes then remove the pan.

You can eat warm or cold.

Happy Birthday

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