Carrot Cake.
You can cook Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake
- You need 175 g of self raising flour.
- Prepare 175 ml of sunflower oil.
- It’s 175 g of light brown soft sugar.
- It’s 3 of large eggs, lightly beaten.
- You need 140 g of grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots).
- It’s 100 g of raisins.
- Prepare 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
- It’s 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- It’s of For the icing:.
- It’s 110 g of unsalted butter, softened.
- You need 225 g of full fat cream cheese.
- It’s 480 g of icing sugar.
Carrot Cake instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny..
- Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely..
- To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. Decorate with walnut halves if you wish..