How to Prepare Yummy Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake.

You can have Carrot Cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. You need 175 grams of light muscovado sugar.
2. You need 175 ml of sunflower oil.
3. Prepare 3 of eggs.
4. You need 140 grams of grated carrot.
5. It's 1 of zest of half an orange.
6. It's 100 grams of sultanas or raisins.
7. Prepare 175 grams of self raising flour.
8. You need 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
9. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of nutmeg (freshly ground is best).

Carrot Cake instructions

1. preheat oven to 180°c/350°f and line a deep 9 inch cake tin with greaseproof paper.
2. beat sugar and oil together to remove all lumps. add eggs, carrot, raisins and orange zest. combine.
3. sieve together the flour, bicarb, cinnamon and nutmeg into the wet mixture. fold together until smoothish.
4. pour mix into the cake tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or until knife comes out clean or edges come away from tin.
5. once done remove and leave to cool in a wire rack.
6. carefully using a serrated bread knife to cut lengthways for filling. if you're not confident just divide mix into two tins instead of one just reduce cooking time and keep checking.
7. classic filling is cream cheese frosting (check my other recipe) but leave whole and dust with icing sugar to reduce the calories.