Carrot Cake with Cream cheese frosting

I love carrot cake. 
A nice big slice, frosted with cream cheese and a cuppa coffee. 

Simply delightful. 
And of course with good company...my family.




140ml sunflower oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g brown sugar
300g grated carrot
50g raisins
100g pecan
200g self raising flour with a pinch of salt
1/2 tsp soda bicab
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp fresh grated nutmeg


In a bowl mix oil, egg, vanilla and sugar. Beat till fluffy. Add carrot, raisins and pecan.

In another bowl sieve all dry ingredients. Add them into the mixture and give a good stir not over mixing it. Grease and line your cake pan. Pour batter and bake at 180degree for about an hour or till cake turns golden brown and skewer comes out clean. Cool the cake.


Now the best part, the Cream Cheese frosting.
250g cream cheese
50g butter
100g icing sugar
1/2 lemon juice

Beat all ingredients using an electric mixter until its fluffy. Spread over cake.
For the carrots, I used orange color sugar paste rolled to a carrot shape and green paste for leaves.

Do try this cake and enjoy.

Happy caking ...Jue