Carrot Cake

Name: Carrot Cake
Ingredients: 2 3/4 cups carrots grated; 1 2/3 cups caster sugar; 1 5/8 cups plain flour; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 3/4 cup raisins; 6 3/4 tablespoons sunflower oil plus extra greasing; 3 medium eggs; 1 teaspoon extract vanila; 7 3/4 tablespoons butter; 15/16 cup icing sugar; 1/4 teaspoon banana extract

15 ingredients

7 steps

Ingredients

2 3/4 cups carrots grated
1 2/3 cups caster sugar
1 5/8 cups plain flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 cup raisins
6 3/4 tablespoons sunflower oil plus extra greasing
3 medium eggs
1 teaspoon extract vanila
7 3/4 tablespoons butter
15/16 cup icing sugar
1/4 teaspoon banana extract

Directions

1

Preheat the oven to 180 C/ 35o F/ Gas mark 4. Grease your cake tin and line the base with baking parchment . Grate the carrots.
2

Put the grated carrot in a bowl. Add the sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, ground ginger and cinnamon.
3

Then add your raisins and mix every thing together......as you mix, the juice from the carrots makes the mixture moist and gooey!
4

Whisk your oil, eggs, vanilla in a small bowl, then pour it with your batter and stir. Pour it into your prepared tin and bake for 40 mins.
5

To make the frosting beat the butter until it is soft, then add banana extract and icing sugar a little at a time.
6

Once the cake is baked put it into a cooling rack to cool it down.
7

After the cake is cooling down, put the cake into a cake board to decorate, then add your frosting and make the carrots out of fondant.