I must admit even though I adore carrot cake I always thought the grating of carrots is extremely daunting. The first thing I wanted to try out when I got the Kitchen Aid is making carrot cake, and it turned out to be enjoyable experience using this beautiful machine.
Carrot Cake Recipe
150g light brown sugar
50g caster sugar
240 ml Vegetable oil
3 eggs
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
1tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
230 g self raising flour
2 large carrots grated
90g chopped walnuts
Icing
200g cream cheese
1 tsp lemon juice
90 g icing sugar
Preheat oven on 180C
Beat together sugars,oil, and eggs. Stir in the orange zest cinnamon and ginger. Sift the flower over the bowl, then fold in. Fold in the carrots and walnuts, Tip the mixture into cake tin, Bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hour.
Icing
Beat together the cream cheese, lemon juice and sugar, spread over cooled cake.
Note: baking time depends on the oven, in my oven it takes about 30 minutes.
Love Baking ♥
