Yum! 🙂
Last week, I caught Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen’s programme and she was making a carrot cake loaf with orange icing! I have never made a carrot cake before, never really been a fan of it but I thought the recipe was really simple and gave it a go!!! 🙂
It turned out really moist and delicious and I will be making this again especially for my mum as she loves carrot cakes!!! 🙂
Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 x eggs
- 150ml sunflower/vegetable oil
- 200g soft light brown sugar
- 300g grated carrots
- 100g pecan/walnuts chopped up
- 175g Self raising flour sieved
- Half teaspoon of bio carbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of mixed spice
- Pinch of salt
For the Icing:
- 100g cream cheese
- Zest of 1 orange
- 200g icing sugar sieved
Method:
- Line to loaf tin and preheat the oven to GM2 at 150 degrees.
- Whisk the egg first and then add the oil. Pour in the sugar and mix with the carrots
- Sieve all the dry ingredients and add to the mixture in 2 batches
- Fold in the nuts and pour into the loaf tin. Bake for an hour and 15 minutes until the skewer comes out clean with no crumbs.
- Leave in the tin to cool and then pop it onto a wire rack
- Make the icing by beating the cream cheese until soft, then add the icing sugar and orange zest and mix it altogether. Once the cake is cooled, pour over the icing and leave to set. I stuck some jellies on top for decoration.
Before
After
Cooling
Orange icing
All decorated! 🙂
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