Carrot-Pecan Cake with Maple Syrup and Orange Buttercream

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

  • About

This moist cake rose to prominence in the 1970s and remains hugely popular. The flavours in the buttercream are a wonderful complement.

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 175 ml sunflower oil, plus more for the tin
  • 60 g pecan nuts, chopped
  • 200

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan 150°C/325°F/gas mark 3.

Oil a 23cm diameter, 7.5cm deep, round tin and line the base with baking parchment.

Scatter the pecans - both for cake and buttercream - on to a baking sheet and