Ingredients:
250ml cooking oil
3 eggs
250g brown sugar (315ml)
5ml vanilla essence
5ml bicarbonate of soda
140g cake flour (240ml)
5ml ground cinnamon
5ml mixed spice
5ml ground cloves
500ml grated carrot
40g chopped nuts (100ml)
(optional)
50g raisins (100ml) (optional)
50ml orange cordial
Cream Cheese Icing:
125g cream cheese
50-60g icing sugar
50ml orange cordial
Cream Cheese Icing:
125g cream cheese
50-60g icing sugar
Method:
Heat the oven to 180C
Whisk the oil, eggs, sugar and
vanilla essence together in a food mixer, until pale and creamy and volume has
increase.
Sift the bicarbonate of soda,
flour and spices together.
Fold into the oil mixture.
In a bowl mix together the the carrots, nuts, raisins and orange cordial. Fold into the cake mixture.
In a bowl mix together the the carrots, nuts, raisins and orange cordial. Fold into the cake mixture.
Pour into a loaf pan or a 22
- 25cm ring pan, lined with baking paper.
Bake for 40 - 45 minutes, until golden brown and a skewer
comes out clean.
Allow to cool, turn out of pan
and remove paper lining.
When cool, ice with cream cheese
icing. To make the icing, beat together the cream cheese and enough icing sugar to produce a thick but pourable icing.
Makes 1 x loaf or 1 ring cake
Cooks Note:
Use 500ml unpeeled courgettes,
grated, instead of carrots and 10ml mixed spice for a different flavour
Bake mixture in large greased
muffins pans for carrot muffins.
No comments:
Post a Comment