Ingredients
Cake
250 g | walnuts |
400 g | carrots, washed and roughly chopped |
2 | eggs |
220 g | raw sugar |
1 tsp | vanilla essence |
1/2 tsp | mixed spice |
1/4 tsp | salt |
200 g | plain flour |
1 tsp | bicarb soda |
160 g | olive oil |
Icing
220 g | raw sugar, milled 10 sec / speed 10 to icing sugar |
90 g | cream cheese |
45 g | butter, at room temperature |
1/2 tsp | lemon juice |
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 185ºC.
- Grease 25 cm round cake tin/ line with baking paper, and set aside.
- Place walnuts into bowl and mill for 4 seconds on speed 9. Set aside.
- Place carrots into bowl and chop for 15 seconds on speed 5. Set aside with walnuts.
- Place eggs, sugar and oil in bowl and mix for 5 seconds on speed 5.
- Add vanilla, spice, salt, flour and bicarb to bowl and mix for 10 seconds on speed 5.
- Add walnuts and carrots and mix for 15 seconds on reverse speed 2.
- Pour into cake tin and bake for 1 ¼ hour.
- Combine all icing Ingredients in bowl and mix for 20 seconds on speed 6.
- Ice cake when it has cooled.