Recipe: Perfect Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake.

You can cook Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. Prepare 175 g of self raising flour.
2. It's 175 ml of sunflower oil.
3. It's 175 g of light brown soft sugar.
4. Prepare 3 of large eggs, lightly beaten.
5. Prepare 140 g of grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots).
6. It's 100 g of raisins.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
9. You need 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg.
10. It's of For the icing:.
11. It's 110 g of unsalted butter, softened.
12. It's 225 g of full fat cream cheese.
13. It's 480 g of icing sugar.

Carrot Cake step by step

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny..
2. Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely..
3. To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. Decorate with walnut halves if you wish..