Carrot Cake

This is a classic cake, it’s amazingly moist and the creamy icing on top is to die for. Its perfect to share with guests for afternoon tea. 

Carrot Cake

2 cups flour

¼ cups sugar

3 eggs

1/3 teaspoon baking soda

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon salt

2 ½ cups carrots grated and tightly compacted

¾ cup sunflower oil

Makes 12 muffins or one cake 

Cream Cheese Icing

100g margarine

200g cream cheese

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

500g of icing sugar (+/- it varies depending on the temperature)

1.     Crack eggs into a mixing bowl and beat until they turn a pale yellow. Measure out your sugar and slowly drizzle it into the eggs so that they hold their form. Do the same with the oil. Your mixture should be very light and fluffy.

2.     Grate your carrots, you want them to be compacted into your measuring cups so that your cake is moist, using the freshest carrots are always best too. Add any juice that drains from your carrots into the bowl along with the carrots.

3.     Sift flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and baking soda into the bowl. Then fold/mix in until all your ingredients have combined. Do not over mix or you will lose the light texture.

4.     Spoon into muffin ting or into one large cake tin (whatever you prefer) and bake at a preheated oven of 175C. Cup cakes take around 15 minutes and a full cake will take between 25-30 minutes. Check your cakes regularly because all ovens vary.

5.     To make the icing, beat margarine and cream cheese in a bowl until smooth. Then add the icing sugar slowly until it comes together, taste to see how much icing sugar you need, it shouldn’t taste too much of cream cheese. Then add your vanilla essence and beat until combined.

6.     Once the muffins are cooked allow them to cook before icing them and topping off with delicious walnuts.

If you have left over icing you can pop it into an airtight container and store in the freezer for next time. It can be used on any cake you like, and it’ll be delicious.