Carrot Cake

Name: Carrot Cake
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 2 carrot, peeled and grated; 3 eggs; 250 ml brown sugar; 250 ml sunflower oil; 500 ml self raising flour; 5 ml ground cinnamon; 5 ml nutmeg; Pinch salt; 100 g pecan nuts; 30 g seedless raisins; 500 ml icing sugar; 125 g cream cheese

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Ingredients

2carrot, peeled and grated
3eggs
250 mlbrown sugar
250 mlsunflower oil
500 mlself raising flour
5 mlground cinnamon
5 mlnutmeg
Pinchsalt
100 gpecan nuts
30 gseedless raisins
Topping
500 mlicing sugar
125 gcream cheese

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 160 º C. Grease a 20cm cake tin or medium loaf pan
2

Beat eggs, sugar and oil together in a mixing bowl, for 2 minutes.
Gently add in all the remaining ingredients - grated carrots, self raising flour, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pecan nuts, seedless raisins - and mix together.
3

Pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes.
Once cake has cooled slightly, turn out onto a cake cooling rack.
4

Ice the cooled cake with the topping made by mixing both cream cheese and icing sugar together. Decorate with the reserved pecan nuts.