Easy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Throw everything in a bowl, mix and cook. Couldn't be easier. Comes from an old recipe book of mums.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 8

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.