Good Old Fashioned Carrot Cake with Lemon and Cream Cheese Frosting

Old Fashioned Carrot Cake with Lemon and Cream Cheese Frosting served on a white plate with a slice cut to show the inside
  • 10 servings
  • 65 minutes to prepare
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Ingredients

  • 175g light muscovado sugar
  • 175ml sunflower oil
  • 3 large eggs, beaten
  • 150g finely grated carrot
  • 100g raisins
  • zest one large orange
  • 175g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
  • For the filling
  • zest and juice one lemon, finely grated
  • 3-4 tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 packet of candied orange pieces
  • 250g full fat cream cheese

Instructions

Lightly grease and line the base and sides of a 20cm cake tin.

Pre-heat your oven to 160 ºc, gas mark 3.

In a large mixing bowl add the sugar, sunflower oil, eggs and orange zest and lightly mix to combine. Stir in the grated carrot and raisins. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and nutmeg, and then sift into the bowl. Lightly mix all the ingredients together. Pour the mixture into your prepared cake tin and bake for 40 minutes until it feels firm and stringy to touch in the centre. Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin, then turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

Once cooled, make the icing by softening the cream cheese in a bowl. Add the lemon juice and zest and mix together. Stir in the icing sugar 1 tbsp at a time until you have a smooth but relatively thick icing.

Using a palette knife spread the icing all over the top of the cooled cake. Place onto a serving plate and decorate with the candied orange pieces.

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