Carrot Cake Recipe

Ingredients :

250 g carrots


200 g self raising flour


200 g sugar


3 eggs


250ml peanut oil


1 teaspoon cinnamon


1 teaspoon ground nutmeg


1 pinch salt


100 g chopped mixed nuts


100 g raisins


For the topping:


120 g cream cheese


200 g icing sugar


30 g butter


1 lemon


1 teaspoon vanilla powder




Recipe :


Preheat oven to 300°F(150°C).


Grease a 23cm cake tin or 28cm loaf tin.


Peel and finely grate carrots.


Beat eggs, sugar and oil for 2 minutes.


In a seperate bowl, mix the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add the carrots, raisins and nuts.


Pour the mixture into your cake tin.


Cook for 45 minutes, leave to cool before removing from cake tin.


Squeeze the lemon, mix the cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and lemon juice.