Cooking with Bruce: Carrot Cake

This is my carrot cake recipe, which is an amalgamation of 3-4 other recipes I've used over the years. It's bloody good.

Carrot Cake - Bruce's Recipe

Cake ingredients

175g soft brown sugar

175ml vegetable oil / sunflower oil

3 eggs lightly beaten

3 medium carrots grated

100gm raisins

grated zest of one orange

175g self-raising flour (gluten free is fine)

1t bicarb of soda

1t vanilla extract

1t ground cinnamon (ideally freshly ground)

1/2t nutmeg (ideally freshly ground)

100gm chopped roasted walnuts

Icing ingredients

75gm butter

150gm cream cheese

350gm (roughly) icing sugar

1/2t vanilla extract

1-2t orange juice (and any zest lying around)

more walnuts to sprinkle

1. Preheat oven to 180C, oil/grease cake tin

2. Mix sugar, oil, eggs, carrots, raisins orange rind

3. Mix in flour, bicarb of soda, spices. Mixture will be runny, stir in walnuts.

4. Pour mixture into cake tin, bake for 45-60 mins until it springs back. Cool slightly, then turn out.

Icing

Mix all (except walnuts), and when cake is cool, spread over cake then sprinkle walnuts over the top.