Carrot Cake | Mrkvin Kolač

Unlike traditional 'western' carrot cakes, this Croatian carrot cake recipe uses no walnuts. And I prefer it. Of course when my

grandmother was baking this cake in Slavonia, there was no cream cheese icing, but I added that to this cake incase you wanted that extra lift. Hey, we like it a bit traditional and a bit modern here.

Without the icing, it's still a wonderful, oh so moist cake, so don't worry if you forgot to buy the cream cheese, it's still good! Because I made it with the icing, I needed to level out the top of the cake (extra bits for the chef) so that the icing looked straight. The baking powder and vanilla sugar are the traditional Croatian ones used in the little packets. You can buy these at your local deli, but roughly I think there would be about a tablespoon in each packet.

Let me know if you tried this hearty rustic cake recipe and what you thought?

Dobar Tek! Zivjeli! (Bon Appetit! Cheers and let’s live!)