Carrot Cake
Ingredients
450ml Vegetable Oil
400g Plain Flour
2 tsp Bicarbonate Of Soda
550ml Sugar
5 Eggs
½ tsp Salt
2 tsp Cinnamon
500g grated Carrots
150g Walnuts
200g Cream Cheese
150g Caster Sugar
100g Butter
Instructions
1- For the carrot cake, preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3.
2- Grease and line a 26cm/10in springform cake tin.
3- Mix all of the ingredients for the carrot cake, except the carrots and walnuts, together in a bowl until well combined.
4- Stir in the carrots and walnuts.
5- Spoon the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
6- Remove the cake from the oven and set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the cake from the tin and set aside to cool completely on a cooling rack.
7- Meanwhile, for the icing, beat the cream cheese, caster sugar and butter together in a bowl until fluffy.
8- Spread the icing over the top of the cake with a palette knife.