Carrot and Almond Cake

This is a wonderful Passover cake which I enjoy baking, not only every year for Seder night but throughout the year. It is quite different from a classic English carrot cake, both because of the lack of thick buttercream icing - Italian cakes don’t usually have any icing on top, just a thin layer of icing sugar, if anything at all - and because of the filling, which is subtle in flavour and moist. It is so light that it slightly crumbles: to minimise this, I add a couple of