The best carrot cake recipe

Who can resist a slice of cake? Especially if its made from the best carrot cake recipe around! This recipe produces a moist cake, full of flavour and if you really want a treat why not top it with the cream cheese frosting given at the bottom of the page.

Ingredients

• 12oz carrots
• 3oz chopped nuts
• 4oz self raising wholewheat flour
• 4oz plain wholewheat flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 1½ tsp ground ginger
• ½ tsp grated nutmeg
• 8 fl. oz. groundnut oil
• 6oz brown sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1½ tsp golden syrup

Method

1. Pass the flours, spice and bicarbonate of soda though a sieve into a bowl (being wholegrain flour there will be some grains left that wont go though so just add them to the bowl).
2. Peel and grate the carrots into another bowl and if you have whole nuts chop them finely then add to the carrots.
3. In another bowl whisk the oil, eggs, sugar and golden syrup together until smooth.
4. Now add the oil mixture to the sieved flour slowly mixing until smooth
5. Finally stir in the carrots and nuts.
6. Pour the completed mixture into a greased and lined round 9" cake tin and cook for 1 hour at 160^oC or until cooked.
7. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out onto a cooling tray.

Carrot cake frosting recipe

• 7oz cream cheese
• 2oz butter
• 2oz sieved icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

1. Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy the add your vanilla essence and cream cheese and mix till combined thoroughly
2. Please be sure your carrot cake is cool before frosting it. Using a palette knife spread the mixture over the cake, use you imagination theres nothing wrong with a perfectly smooth covering but try running a fork lightly over it in both directions to give it a patten and see what you think but stick with what ever you think looks good its yours not mine. If you have any nuts left you could coat the sides?

I hope you try this recipe and agree that it is one of the best carrot cake recipes you have ever tasted.