Carrot Cake

Makes one 30 cm round cake.

Ingredients

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For the icing and garnish:

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.

You will need 1 x 30cm (12 inch) cake tin or springform mould, lightly oiled.

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs to the creamed mixture, beating well between each addition.

Sift the spices, a little salt, flour and baking powder together; fold into the creamed cake mixture. Stir in the carrots, lemon zest and juice and ground almonds. Put the mixture into the prepared cake tin and spread flat with a knife. Bake for 1 hour, or until cooked; a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake will come out clean when the cake is ready.

Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes. Loosen from the tin and lift onto a wire rack. Allow the cake to cool completely.

To make the icing:

Sift the icing sugar. Then put the cream cheese and icing sugar into a bowl and stir together until well combined. Add the orange zest and some of the juice to taste. Be careful not to add too much juice as the icing will become too liquid.
Spread it over the top of the cake and sprinkle the top with chopped walnuts. Keep refrigerated.

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Comments:

10At last - a carrot cake recipe with orange in the icing too - just like my Grandma used to make!!!
10not bad,thanks
5dunno avent made it yet
10its so good
10nearly finished
10yummy this is the best carrot cake i have ever tasted :)
10whats cardamom do i need it in my cake??? iv not made it yet!:-|
10yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
10havent made it yet but try and add some easer ones next timme and when you do make it in English
10fab, really nice will make agian
10this cake was reallllllyyy delicious,the filling was so fluffly and light, loved it :)
10the cake tasted marvelous, one would like to say thankyou to another. (:
9this recipe is great thnx but i did find a better one somewhere else
5Very good but it needs more description and information about what your talking about
10this webpage is really good and easy to use i love it lieshax2008@hotmail.co.uk
10Carrot cake was delicious, i'm definately going to be making this again. Did you know carrots used to be purpleNULL
10carrot cake is a really deliicouis tasted cake
10I think this has to be a 10 out of 10 because it saved my taste-buds! Yum!
9It was great- made it for my mums birthday. Im 12 and i didnt have any help.... only the icing went wrong :$ :L
10verry good it is very forward and easy to u nderstand
10very easy recepy, simpli fantastic 10/10
8It Was lovely.. tnxx 4 that .
7the icing didnt work at all! i think that mite be cuz I halved the ammounts...NULL
10great recipe thanks
1010/10
9mmmmmmmmmmmmmm really nice fanx u 4 da recipe most appreciated.
10not bad to big though
10really nice and easy to understand thanks
6carp
10I baked the cake and eaten it in one day, im making another one, my mates call billy bunter.
9Buonoooo.. Except I couldn't find cream cheese in Sainsbury.. ;)
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10yes, WOW this carrot cake is yummy! LOVELY !!!!!!! LOVELY !!!!!!! LOVELY !!!!!!! LOVELY !!!!!!!
9LOVELY !!!!!!!
5yes, WOW this carrot cake is yummy!
8It's very good, tastes lovely, but please be a little more specific with the actual recipe.
10made it for mates at the local, as someone was leaving, must have been good, had free drinks all night !
8this recipe is good but needs more exact amounts, for example; 1 teaspoon of mixed spice, i have looked for mixed spice and all i can find is some stuff with chillis in, i expect this will not taste too great with the sweetness of the carrot cake. the rest is fine though ! :)
10YUMMY USDED AGAIN FOR COLLAGE!
10I'm a young child and I cooked my carrot cake very well because of this site so don't undermine us.
9BRILLANT
8Yummy yummy......getting fatter as I read it
7not quite so convenient size page for printing and putting in my recipe book had to type it out
10i think this is a good idea to have this and i think this page is great natalie
10I love your CARROT CAKE so I am makimg it again!
10carrot cake is cool man..
10the best eva
9ok
9I think this is a very good recipe but if younger children were to tru and make this they wouldnt really understand it. But all in all it was a good recipe and i will make this again in the future.And it tastes gorgeous.Thank you
9Very easy. Love it.