Grown-up Carrot Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• 300 g plain flour
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 200 g brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 250 ml sunflower oil
• 1 orange, zest of
• 1 lemon, zest of
• 200 g carrots, finely grated
• 150 g chopped walnuts
• 125 g unsalted butter
• 50 g icing sugar
• 250 g cream cheese

Recipe

• 1 heat your oven to 150°c.
• 2 sift the flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and mix together with the sugar.
• 3 in another bowl, beat the eggs, oil and zests together, then add the carrots and walnuts.
• 4 fold into the flour mixture.
• 5 pour into a greased and lined tin and bake for 1 hour 20 minutes, or until a skewer comes out cleanly. once cooked, turn out and let cool.
• 6 meanwhile, beat together the icing sugar and butter until light and fluffy, then fold in the cream cheese. put in the fridge until stiffened.
• 7 once the cake is cool, spread the topping over and serve.