Celebratory carrot cake
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
40 mins
Total Time
1 hr
A juicy sponge packed full of spices and carrots with a creamy, rich icing
Course:
Cakes, Tea Time
Cuisine:
British
Keyword:
Celebratory carrot cake
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 175 g light olive oil
- 175 g light brown sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 175 g carrots grated
- 80 g sultanas
- 60 g walnuts/pecans chopped
- 175 g self raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 orange zest & juice
For the icing:)
- 200 g full fat cream cheese
- 100 g icing sugar
Instructions
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Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees
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Grease and line a 9 inch square baking tin with baking parchment
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Beat together - in a bowl with an electric whisk or a food processor - the eggs, sugar and oil
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Add the grated carrots, sultanas nuts and orange zest
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Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and mixed spice
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Pour the cake mix into the baking tin and bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer pressed down into the cake comes out clean
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Let the cake cool completely
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For the frosting simply mix together the cream cheese with the icing sugar in a bowl and then spread over the cold cake