Addictively Delicious Carrot Cake Recipe
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 8-10
ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup raw sugar
- 1 cup oil or 1 cup soft butter
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1⁄2 cups whole wheat flour
directions
- Preheat your oven to 180°C.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine eggs, sugar and oil.
- Beat until well combined and light in colour.
- Stir in the cinnamon, mixed spice, salt, and grated carrot.
- Empty the flour and baking soda into a separate bowl and mix well.
- Empty the flour and baking soda mix to the bowl of wet ingredients, and mix until all the flour is dampened.
- Lightly grease the bottom of a 23cm round, 22cm square, or general breadloaf tin.
- Pour or spoon in the mixture.
- Bake at 180C for 45 minutes, or until the center springs back when pushed, a skewer inserted in the center comes our clean, and the sides of the cake begin to pull away from the tin.
- Leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tin, then invert onto a wire rack.
- For a pudding-style dessert, serve with icecream.
- For general 'cake' use, ice with lemon butter icing (made by mixing 1 1/2 cups icing sugar with 25g soft butter, 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice, and 1/2 or 1 teaspoon lemon zest.).
- Serve!
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I love cooking. I enjoy organic gardening and finding new ways to use my homegrown produce. I have a good knowledge of a number of regional cuisines, particularly australian, italian, german, american, chinese, indonesian, and japanese foods. I also have an extensive knowledge and experience in vegetarian cuisine. My partner and I absolutely love cooking together, and make a lot of our own jams, pickles, preserved fruit and vegetables, sauces, stocks, dried herbs, and icecream toppings!