Tonight Jennifer and I are

Tonight Jennifer and I are hosting our book group. We're serving Raclette and since that's a very Swiss dish, I went ahead and baked a Rüeblitorte last night. This is one of my favorite Swiss deserts. It's a carrot cake that's quite different from the American kind. It uses beaten egg whites as leavening and instead of most of the flower it uses grated hazelnuts and almonds.

Unfortunatelly I don't have a 26cm spring form - my 9" spring form makes the cake be much higher which makes it difficult to bake it correctly (the center tends to stay mushy). This might be a good excuse to buy a 10" pan. Yeah, and my oven's crappy temperature control might be a good excuse to buy a new oven? If I only had two grand to blow...