Carrot Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup walnuts

  • 2 cup plain four

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • some salt

  • 1 tsp cinnamon

  • 1 tsp nutmeg

  • 1 tsp ginger

  • 1 1/4 cups olive oil

  • 1/2 caster sugar

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

  • 4 eggs

  • 125g cream cheese

  • 3 carrots

  • 1 cup icing sugar

  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Grease springform round cake tin

  • Lightly toast finely chopped walnuts in oven for 5 mins

  • Place plain four, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger in bowl and combine.

  • Whisk together in a separate bowl cups olive oil, caster sugar, cup brown sugar, vanilla extract, and eggs.

  • Mix in wet ingredients and cream cheese.

  • Fold in finely grated carrots and walnuts.

  • Transfer batter to cake tin and bake for 30 mins.

  • To make icing, beat cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla extract together.

  • Transfer icing to cake, top with walnuts.