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Need the perfect cake to feed many, and taste amazing? Then you’ll LOVE this delicious carrot sheet cake recipe – the perfect ratio of cake to icing, each mouthful is like a little taste of heaven!
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 200ml vegetable oil
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup grated carrots
- ¼ cup raisins
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Ingredients – Icing
- 50g butter, softened
- 250g cream cheese
- 1 cup icing sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 175°C
- In a blender, mix the eggs and sugar together until light in colour and creamy.
- Add the oil, flour, vanilla essence, salt, baking powder, bicarb and cinnamon and mix together until just combined.
- Stir in the carrots, raisins and pecan nuts.
- Cook for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake completely before icing. To make the icing. Simply mix all the ingredients together and blend well until smooth, light and white in appearance.
- Ice the cake and decorate with whole pecan nuts and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Notes
Notes
Dish Size: I used a 35cm x 22cm dish