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Spiced Parsnip Cake with Pecans
Adapted from Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables by Farmer John Peterson and Angelic Organics (Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2006).
Move over carrot cake! The parsnip has arrived and wants some of the action. Good, fresh, firm parsnips have a wonderful, natural sweetness that makes them ideal in baked desserts. Read on for this inspired recipe that will have you singing the praises of parsnips.
This cake is delicious with a traditional glaze or frosting, but if you’re running short of time, serve it with a warm fruit compote or applesauce. This recipe calls for mace, which is the dried and powdered outer surface of nutmeg. Mace has a wonderful, nutty flavor, like nutmeg—and it has a brighter, zestier edge that won’t fade during baking. A touch of mace adds complexity to the warm, familiar spiciness of cinnamon. If you cannot find mace, you can substitute 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg.
INGREDIENTS
Butter for greasing the baking pan
2 cups unbleached flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground mace
1 ¼ cups Sucanat (as a wholesome alternative to refined sugar, read more about natural sweeteners here.)
¾ cups organic butter softened
½ cup mild vegetable oil
4 eggs, at room temperature
3 cups peeled and grated raw parsnips (about 3 large parsnips)
1 ½ cups finely chopped pecans
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Lightly coat a 10-inch Bundt pan or tube pan with butter.
2. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Stir in the baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and mace.
3. In another bowl, combine the Sucanat, butter and oil; beat with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add one egg and beat well. Add about one-quarter of the flour mixture and beat well. Repeat the process until all of the eggs and flour mixture are used and well combined.
4. Stir in the parsnips and pecans.
5. Pour the batter into the pan and bake until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean, about one hour.
6. Remove the pan from the oven and set it aside to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully remove the cake from the pan. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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add your comment »What a terrific cake. I wasn't sure about the cup measurements (being USA) but it turned out lovely and I put an orange frosting on it and everybody love it.
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Mum made this and it's a very yummy cake.
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mmmm yummy
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American cup measure sets are available in UK shops and online. They're actually quite convenient to use.
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Funny how supermarket checkout staff have a hard time recognizing parsnips, rutabagas, turnips. Haven't tried them with endives,chicory or artichokes yet. I'm off to buy the parsnips. We have tons of pecans here in SC.
Thanks.
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This is a great site for converting USA measures to UK ones. http://www.calculateme.com/cUKRecipes/index.htm
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I like using your website for recipes. Could you please include nutritional data on the recipes. I am diabetic and must count carbs,fats,etc. Thankyou Nanareth
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Is there any chance we can have European measures please. It would help if recipes were in alternative measures instead of cups on your website. We are only two people and this sounds like a very large cake! I need to decrease the amounts. Can you also give me sugar amount for the cake as I can't get the sugar alternatives in Britain easily. Thanks you for your website it's great.
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There is a great free nutritional analysis website I use to get the nutritional value of recipes. You can set up a pantry, put in your recipe info, name and save the recipe. It will give you more info on the nutrition of a recipe then you will ever need. http://www.nutritiondata.com/
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Hi i have a question I have found that i love zylatol in my coffee and have beaten the "sugar habit" feel better also but I want to cook with it where can I obtain receipes for it?
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