Posts filed under 'baking'

Carrot Cake Recipe

I have a wonderful carrot cake recipe that I would love to share with you. Everyone that has tasted my carrot cake has absolutely loved it and I have even received orders for this cake…

  • Ingredients:

For the Cake

  • 180ml oil (sunflour or canola)
  • 180ml brown sugar
  • 3 eggs (free range)
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 100g walnuts
  • 240ml grated carrots (more is fine)
  • 180ml flour
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1tsp cinnamon
  • 1tsp nutmeg
  • 1tsp cloves
  • pinch of salt

For the Icing

  • 1 tub soft cream cheese (woolworths one is the best)
  • 120g butter (I use woodenspoon butter)
  • 2 tsps lemon juice
  • 240ml icing sugar
  • walnuts to garnish

To bake:

  • Pre-heat oven at 180*C.
  • Grease and line two round cake tins.
  • Wash and peel the carrots then coarsly grate.
  • Chop the walnuts.
  • Mix the oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla essence. Beat well.
  • Add the carrots and the walnuts to the mixture. Then through a sieve add the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
  • Mix well and then pour equally into the tins.
  • Bake for 30-35 mins, until the cakes spring back when pressed and a skewer comes out clean.
  • Cool completely on a wire rack before icing.

To ice:

  • Beat the butter and sugar until smooth.
  • Add the cream cheese and lemon juice to the butter and sugar and mix together. Be careful not to beat too much as it may start to seperate.
  • Spread the icing over the top of one of the cakes and sandwich the second one on top.
  • Spread the remaining icing over the top of the cake and decorate with walnuts.
  • Enjoy!

Photo found on Flickr here…

Add comment August 4, 2008

Racing Car Cake

Last week a friend of ours, who lives in the UK, asked me to make a cake for his nephew here in SA.

He wanted a ‘Pimp my Ride’ type of racing car.

I used to bake kids birthday cakes for extra money, but haven’t for about a year now, so I am a little out of practice. I spent the whole of Friday night on the cake and went to bed really late. It could have been better, but a good effort…

Here are some photos… (taken at night – so not the best)

1 comment July 7, 2008


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