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Carrot Cake Recipe
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Ingredients
Carrot Cake Ingredients
- 3 large eggs
- 250 g sugar
- 175 ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil
- 200 g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 325 g grated carrot
Lemon Icing Ingredients
- 225 g softened butter
- 500 g icing sugar
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 150c. Prepare a muffin tin and cup cake cases.
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Mix the oil, sugar and eggs in a large bowl or electric mixer until totally combined.
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Sift flour, bicarbonate soda, baking powder and mixed spice in a bowl. Then gently mix into step 2.
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Fill the cup cake cases until they are 80% full and bake for 20 minutes.
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Sift icing sugar first before you mix with butter and lemon juice in a electric mixer and beat until light and creamy.
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After the cake has cooled down pipe the icing on top of the cake.