Recipes by Barbara Northwood

Carrot Cake

Dec 05 01:57pm

Ingredients

1 cup grated carrot
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 cup caster sugar
1 cup self-raising flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
grated orange rind, to decorate
orange slices to serve
CREAM CHEESE ICING
125g cream cheese, at room temperature
50g butter, at room temperature
3 cups icing sugar mixture
1 teaspoon finely grated orange rind
1 tablespoon fresh orange juice

Method
1. Grease a 19cm x 30cm lamington pan. Line base and sides with baking paper.
2. Whisk carrot, eggs, oil and walnuts in a medium bowl until combined. Stir in combined sifted sugar, flour, cinnamon and soda. Pour mixture into prepared pan.
3. Cook in a hot oven (200C) for 15 minutes or until cooked when tested. Stand cake in pan for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
4. To make cream cheese icing, place all ingredients in a medium bowl, beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
5. Spoon icing into a piping bag fitted with a fluted tube and pipe rosettes over top of cake or alternately spread over cake. Refrigerate for 30 minutes to set before serving.
6. Serve cake cut into rectangles with orange slices.

Hint. Iced cake can be made up to 3 days ahead or frozen for up to 2 months. Thaw at room temperature before serving.

12 Comments Report Abuse

1. dr.saranbeer - Jun 07 08:12pm

Carrot cake is nutitious but pls do suggest any substitute for eggs as i am allergic to it.
dr.saranbeer@yahoo.com.au

2. just4crusin - Jul 09 02:31am

I'am a kitchen supervisor/cook for a senior day centre, and carrot cake is a favorite .Some of our elderly gents reckon"That's the way to get your vegies and cake and eat it to"

3. husnia_zakire - Mar 12 02:04pm

wow

4. husnia_zakire - Mar 12 02:18pm

wow

5. yizhu612 - Mar 22 10:37am

It looks delicious and I am sure it will tast delicious too, I wouldn't mind to try it out. good stuff

6. dalinian2000 - Apr 28 08:41am

Carrot cake isn't that nutricious. Just because it has 1 cup of carrots in it dosen't mean it's a healthfood. Look at the sugar content for goodnes sake! I love it though :-)

7. landamcdonald - May 03 04:18pm

Sounds delicious - I'm heading to the kitchen now!!!
For those who are allergic to egg (as comment #1 is) in most cake recipes you can substitute 15mls of vinegar instead of 1 egg. I can't guarantee it will work but since I found out I use it all the time in pikelets - you can't tell any difference

8. lzbryson - May 21 06:26pm

Does carrot cake really need that much oil? In order to make the recipe 'healthier' I would cut down on the sugar and fat [cream cheese is not that healthy] I would use low fat ricotta instead of cream cheese and much less sugar in the icing mix too.
Otherwise I will give it a miss thanks. Lizbe