Carrot Cake

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

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
Baking
Vegetarian

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