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Easy carrot cake
Fruit and vegetables
250g/9oz
carrots
, coarsely grated
1
orange
, zest only
Cooking ingredients
200ml/7fl oz vegetable or sunflower oil, plus a little extra for the tin
100g/3½oz raisins or
sultanas
(optional)
100g/3½oz
walnut
pieces, plus a few extra for decoration
200g/7oz
self-raising flour
2 tsp
mixed spice
1 tsp
bicarbonate of soda
¼ tsp fine
salt
200g/7oz light
brown sugar
3 tbsp
caster sugar
Dairy, eggs and chilled
4 free-range
eggs
, at room temperature
150g/5½oz unsalted
butter
, softened
250g–300g/9–10½oz full-fat
cream cheese
, at room temperature
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