Carrot Cake

19 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • 200g Soft Light Brown Sugar
  • 100g dark Brown Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 150ml Sunflower Oil
  • 300g Plain Flour
  • 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon, plus extra to decorate
  • 2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp Fresh Ground Ginger
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 400g Carrots, grated (blend half to pesto like consistency)
  • Zest from one orange
  • Juice from the orange
  • 100g Shelled Walnuts/ Pecans, chopped, plus extra, chopped and whole, to decorate or raisin
  • OR
  • 100g white chocolate chunks and
  • 100g raisins

Directions

  1. 1
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