2/05/2013

Carrot-Cranberry Cake

Ingredients
- a plain yoghurt
- 2 pots (the one of the yoghurt) of flour
- 1 pot of maple syrup
- 3 eggs
- a half small bag of baking powder
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
- a pinch of salt
- 1 medium carrot
- approximately a half teaspoon of cinnamon powder
 - approximately a half teaspoon of ginger powder
-100 g. of dried cranberries

Utensils
- a big bowl
- a cutting board
- a sharp knife
- an economizer
- a tablespoon
- a teaspoon
- the yoghurt pot
- a whisk
- a medium sized dish
- a oven

Method
1. First, peel and chop (or grate) the carrots finely, set aside.
2. Next, preheat oven at thermostat 6.
3. Then, take the big bowl and pour in the yoghurt.
4. After that, wash the pot of yoghurt and add in the bowl, the flour, the maple syrup (to replace the sugar), add the baking powder, the oil, the cinnamon, the ginger, the salt and the eggs. Whisk the preparation.
5. Put the carrot and the cranberries and stir.
6. Finally, don’t forget to butter the mould and pour the preparation in the medium dish. And bake for 25 or 30 minutes, until the cake is golden.
7. Before to eat, let the cake cool.
 
Personal Comments
I have chosen to make a yoghurt cake because it's French, simple to make and you can add whatever you want in this cake.
As to me, I have added some other ingredients. I have chosen to add some carrots and spices, because English people sometimes make carrot cake. It looks like pudding, "French pudding". Because in pudding there can be a lot of different ingredients. I know, for French people, a carrot cake is really strange, but I like to try other things.
After, I wanted to add something else: cranberries because it comes from Quebec, and Quebeckers cook cranberries very much. The I also added maple syrup which comes from Canada.
These three countries are linked by their past, because French and English people colonized Canada, and French people created Quebec. And thanks to that, they are bound by their way of cooking.
A lot of Quebec recipes come from England. French and Quebeckers speak the same language. So this cake gathers the culture of these three countries.
by Elisa Oddon

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