Nana Chris's Carrot Cake

Baking - sweet Baking - sweet

Preparation time

10min

Total time

1h 0min

Portion

8 piece(s)

Level

easy

TM 5

by Ianthe

published: 2016/09/16

changed: 2016/09/21

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Ingredients

Cake

100g sugar
300g carrot, Chunks
170g Plain Flour.
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1/2 teaspoon Mixed Spice or Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract/ essence
160 g oil, Olive, rice bran , sunflower, vegetable
2 eggs
65g walnut pieces

Frosting

100g icing sugar
40g Butter, Softened
60g cream cheese, Cubed room temp
2 teaspoons lemon juice

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Recipe's preparation

Cake

Preheat oven 160 degrees

Grease a 24cm Spring form cake tin with oil

Place 200 grams of sugar into bowl 15 sec/ sp 10 and set aside.

Add carrot chunks to bowl and chop 3 sec/ sp6.

Add 100 grams of icing sugar and all other ingredients to bowl except walnuts and mix 5 sec/"Counter-clockwise operation" / sp 5 and scrape down sides .

Add walnuts pieces and stir 3 sec/ "Counter-clockwise operation" /sp3

Bake at 160 degrees for 50 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

Allow to cool completely before frosting.

Frosting

insert butterfly add butter and cream cheese and whip 1 min/sp4

Add reserved icing sugar and mix 1min/sp3 Scrape down sides .

Add lemon juice 15sec/sp1

Set aside in the fridge until cake is cool.

When cake is cool ice and add extra walnuts or leave plain.

Tip

This is my MIL's recipe which we have been eating for more than 30 years. Thanks to my SIL who converted the recipe which I tweaked.I use olive oil but most oils work. Mill all 200 grams of sugar first and save a step. I have cut the sugar down by half so it's not overly sweet . Can be made in a loaf tin or as cup cakes. Cooking time for cupcakes is around 25 minutes. Keep an eye on them. Enjoy tmrc_emoticons.)

Thermomix Model

Recipe is created for
TM 5

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