Easy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 70 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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Throw everything in a bowl, mix and cook. Couldn't be easier. Comes from an old recipe book of mums. Ingredients:
250 ml vegetable oil |
165 g caster sugar |
2 tablespoons golden syrup |
2 eggs |
2 cups grated carrots (about 4 medium carrots) |
90 g chopped walnuts |
225 g self raising flour |
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda |
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg |
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon |
frosting |
125 g cream cheese |
30 g soft butter |
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind |
240 g icing sugar |
Directions:
1. Grease 15cm x 25cm loaf pan or 24cm round cake tin.
2. Combine ingredients in a large bowl, stir well. Pour mixture into pan.
3. Bake in moderate (180C) oven ~1 hour.
4. Stand cake 5 minutes, turn onto wire rack to cool.
5. Frosting.
6. Beat cream cheese, butter and lemon until light and fluffy, gradually beat in icing sugar.
7. Spread cake with frosting.
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