Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Total Time: 1 hr 29 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 9 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/3 cups brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups grated carrots
• 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
• 2 1/2 cups self raising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 2 teaspoons mixed spice
• 30 g butter, softened
• 80 g cream cheese
• 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon rind
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180.
• 2 grease a 22cm round cake tin and line with baking paper.
• 3 beat oil, sugar and eggs in a small ball with an electric mixer until thick and creamy.
• 4 transfer mixture to a larger bowl; using a wooden spoon, stir in carrot and nuts, then siffted dry ingredients. pour the mixture into your prepared tin.
• 5 bake in preheated oven for about 1 1/4 hours. stand cake for 5 minutes before transfering to a wire to cool.
• 6 frosting:
• 7 beat butter, cream cheese and rind in a small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy; gradually beat in icing sugar until smooth. spread on top of cooled cake.