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Delicious Carrot Cake Recipe

Written by Brooke Roache

Wednesday, 05 January 2011 09:26

If you want to jump straight to the Cream Cheese icing recipe click here CarrotCake1

The Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup Wholemeal Flour
1 cup Plain Flour
2 cups Raw Sugar
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Salt
4 Eggs (lightly beaten)
1 small tin of Crushed Pineapple (less juice)
8oz Carrot
not quite 1 cup Canola Oil
Walnuts - optional

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 180˚c
2. Sift dry ingredients together
3. Mix in Canola Oil until there are no dry lumps
4. Add beaten eggs, crushed pineapple and carrots (and walnuts if you choose)
5. Bake for one hour

When cool, ice with Cream Cheese icing and decorate with diced Dried Apricots and Walnuts or Pumpkin seeds.