Try our super moist carrot cake sandwiched with coconut cream cheese icing.
150ml/¼ pint sunflower oil
100g/4oz soft light brown sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
75g/3oz golden syrup
175g/6oz wholemeal self-raising flour
1 level tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground allspice
½ tsp ground ginger
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
200g/7oz finely grated carrots
75g/3oz sultanas
25g/1oz desiccated coconut
2 tsp fine-cut orange marmalade
150g/5oz cream cheese
50ml/2fl oz coconut cream
40g/1½oz icing sugar
freshly grated or ground nutmeg or ground cinnamon, to finish
Preheat oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3. You will need a greased and lined 18cm/7in round or square baking tin.
In a large bowl or electric mixer, whisk together the oil, sugar, eggs and golden syrup until totally combined. Mix in the remaining cake ingredients and pour into the prepared tin.
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes for a round cake, or 30 minutes for the square, until nicely risen and firm but springy when lightly pressed. Insert a skewer through the centre if you're not sure. If it comes out clean, the cake is ready. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
While the cake is cooling, make the topping. Warm the marmalade in a microwave or small saucepan until melted. Beat it into the cream cheese with the coconut cream and icing sugar. Place in the fridge to firm up, and when cold spread over the cooled cake.
For a final touch, grate over some nutmeg or dust with some ground cinnamon. Because the carrot cake has been made using oil, it will stay moist for quite a few days in an airtight container if you can bear not to eat it straight away.
Type the ingredients you want to use, then click Go. For better results you can use quotation marks around phrases (e.g. "chicken breast"). Alternatively you can search by chef, programme, cuisine, diet, or dish (e.g. Lasagne).
How to make carrot cake
See more carrot cake recipes
See more Jo' Pratt recipes
Rum and raisin baked cheesecake
Lemon layer cake
Iced fingers
See more Favourite cake recipes (17)
Triple chocolate brownies
Yorkshire parkin
Chocolate brownies
See more Traybake recipes recipes (22)
BBC © 2013 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.
This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.
