
CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING
3 eggs
250 ml oil
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch ground cloves
250 ml seedless raisins
375 ml sugar
250 ml white and brown flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
6 medium carrots, grated
125 ml chopped walnuts
Beat eggs and sugar until pale, beat in oil.
Sift dry ingredients and add.
Mix well, add carrots, raisins and walnuts, beating all the time.
Grease a ring pan, not bigger than 25 cm in diameter.
Set oven on preheat.
Pour in cake mixture – will be thickish and tacky.
When baking put on the low rack.
Time: 00:55
Temp: 180°C
Cream cheese Icing:
2 cups sifted icing sugar
50 ml soft butter
⅓ tub cream cheese or cottage cheese
½ teaspoon vanilla
Mix sifted icing sugar and butter.
Slowly beat in cottage cheese and vanilla, until the mixture is of spreading consistency
Ice cake preferably when cold.
Recipe posted by Frieda Greyling