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Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

Jill Booth

Prep 30 mins30m
Cook 1 hr1h
Serves 8

This is Elaine's carrot cake recipe. Unfortunately it was so delicious that it was all eaten before I had time to take a picture!

Ingredients

  • 200 ml oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 tsps honey or golden syrup
  • 8 oz flour
  • 2 tsps baking powder
  • 0.5 tsps bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 6 oz grated carrot
  • 2 oz sultana

  • Icing

  • 2.5 oz cream cheese
  • 2 tbs butter
  • 12 oz icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence

Instructions

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  • 1
    Preheat the oven to 190C.
  • 2
    Whisk the oil, eggs and honey together until frothy.
  • 3
    Stir in the flour, baking powder, bicarb, vanilla, carrots and sultanas.
  • 4
    Pour mixture into a greased deep 9 inch cake tin.
  • 5
    Bake for approximately .
  • 6
    Beat together the cream cheese, butter , icing sugar and vanilla to make the icing.
  • 7
    Once the cake has cooled slice it across into two and spread with half the icing mixture. Re-assemble the cake and spread the remainder of the icing on the top.

Comments & Reviews (4)

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  • Martin Booth

    Martin Booth

    11 years ago
    What is 120z? 12 oz?

    • Jill Booth

      11 years ago
      Yep! Corrected it now!
      • Martin Booth

        Martin Booth

        11 years ago
        Do you realise that you also have a mixture of ml and oz?

        • Jill Booth

          11 years ago
          That's how the recipe was given to me by Elaine!