Easy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 250 ml vegetable oil
• 165 g caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups grated carrots (about 4 medium carrots)
• 90 g chopped walnuts
• 225 g self raising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• frosting
• 125 g cream cheese
• 30 g soft butter
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
• 240 g icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 grease 15cm x 25cm loaf pan or 24cm round cake tin.
• 2 combine ingredients in a large bowl, stir well. pour mixture into pan.
• 3 bake in moderate (180c) oven ~1 hour.
• 4 stand cake 5 minutes, turn wire rack to cool.
• 5 frosting.
• 6 beat cream cheese, butter and lemon until light and fluffy, gradually beat in icing sugar.
• 7 spread cake with frosting.