Carrot Cake

Name: Carrot Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 2 ripe bananas, mashed; 60 g/ 2 oz chopped walnuts; 115 g/ 4 oz grated carrots; 115 g/ 4 oz icing sugar; 175 g/ 6½ oz low-fat cream cheese; 2 tsp baking powder; 150 ml/ ¼ pt sunflower oil, plus more for greasing; walnut halves, to decorate; 4 drops of vanilla extract; 60 g/ 2 oz soft margarine; 225 g/ 8 oz self-raising flour; 150 g/ 5 oz muscovado sugar

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

All questions concerning cakes should really be addressed to Mary Berry, whose Ultimate Cake Book was where we found a delicious and easy carrot cake recipe.

Ingredients

225 g/ 8 oz self-raising flour
150 g/ 5

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/ gas 4. Grease the base of a 20-cm / 8-inch round cake tin and line it with greased greaseproof paper.

Put the flour, muscovado sugar, grated carrots, chopped walnuts, mashed bananas, eggs, sunflower oil and baking powder in a large bowl. Mix tho