I've always loved carrot cakes. The combination of carrots, nuts, raisins in cake is just heavenly. And eating it gives you that feel good feeling because it supposedly nutritious. So i decided to try making one over the weekend with my little helper Nic :) Since I've started baking, I've always tried my best to make things at least a little less fattening and nutritious. But of course not skimping on the good stuff.
I looked high and low on the Internet for a proper carrot cake recipe but could not find one. All recipes i found used oil instead of butter (something i didn't like) and white flour. Alas finally at 2am on Sunday morning i sleepily tumbled upon the Perfect Carrot Cake from this lovely site. Yeah it still used oil, but at least it also used brown sugar and wholemeal :)
I didn't have self raising whole meal flour so i just used he regular kind.. and i didn't include the ground ginger and nutmeg cos i don't fancy these spices...
Ok ok..i messed up, i dont have a pretty photo to show because i couldn't wait for the cake to cool before i frosted it. :P Which explains the lack of pictures.
This cake turned out fabulous. Brought it to work the next day and got rave reviews... aren't my colleagues the luckiest ..
Happy baking
xoxo
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