Jour férié!

May in France is amazing - there are four days off work (for those who do work that is! :P)

One of these days was yesterday, meaning that my wife stayed home, yay! We used the day in a very leisurely manner, taking a stroll out to the local shop to buy a few necessary items and then we baked a cake. What's not to like about cake.

We both fancied carrot cake, but rather than buying the ingredients to a particular recipe, we hunted around a bit on the internet to find a recipe that was pretty much what we had already. Then we improvised a smidge too. 

Our starting point was this Delia recipe, but this is how our recipe went:

Ingredients:

200g plain flour

1 large tsp baking powder

175g sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp lemon syrup

2 eggs

150ml sunflower oil

200g carrots (about 2 medium)

25g desiccated coconut

First put the eggs, sugar and oil into a bowl (we used our trusty pyrex as that's all we have that's big enough here in France)

And whisk together

Next add the flour and baking powder and mix again

Then add the remaining ingredients and make sure it's all mixed well

This mix then went into our microwave (seeing as we have no oven in our little apartment) for 6 minutes at 900W.

Take it out when it seems cooked, and leave to cool (this bit took a fair while as our cake was in a glass container)

We then whipped up a quick glacé icing from icing sugar and water to put on the top of the cake

 And ta-da, finished microwave carrot cake.

We decided to keep our cake in the pyrex dish as we have very little crockery here and figured it was best to keep it in there than to turn it out onto one of our two plates!