How to Prepare Ultimate Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake.

You can cook Carrot Cake using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. Prepare 175 g of brown sugar (unrefined cane sugar).
2. Prepare 175 ml of sunflower oil.
3. It's 3 of large eggs (lightly beaten).
4. It's 140 g of carrots (grated).
5. You need 80 g of dried fruit (raisins/prunes/cranberry).
6. You need of zest of 1 orange (graded).
7. You need 175 g of self-raising flour.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
9. You need 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.

Carrot Cake step by step

1. Oil a medium-sized cake tin, and line it with baking paper. Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F)..
2. In a large bowl put sugar, sunflower oil and beaten eggs. Mix with a wooden spoon. Stir in grated carrots, dried fruit (I used chopped prunes as I don't like raisins) and grated orange zest..
3. Add flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Mix everything together, the mixture will be soft and almost runny..
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes..
5. Allow the cake to cool before serving. You can top it with icing or just sprinkle some icing sugar..