Carrot Cake

Name: Carrot Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: ¼ tsp ground allspice; 100 g (3½ oz) cream cheese; ½ tsp grated nutmeg; 50 g (1¾ oz) chopped pecans; 140 g (5 oz) grated carrots (about 3 carrots); chopped pecans, to decorate; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 175 g (6 oz) self-raising flour; 200 g (7 oz) icing sugar, sifted; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; grated zest of 1 large orange; 175 ml (6 fl oz) sunflower or groundnut oil, plus extra for greasing; 175 g (6 oz) light brown muscovado sugar; juice of ½ lime; 125 g (4½ oz) raisins; 3 large free range eggs, lightly beaten

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

With the very sweet topping merged with the carrots and ginger, this is a great recipe for a very moist carrot cake.

Ingredients

175 ml (6 fl oz) sunflower or groundnut oil, plus extra for greasing
175 g (

Americas
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Oil and line the base and sides of an 18 cm (7