Simple Carrot Cake ….adulterated from Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion
I had some carrots. So I made a healthy cake to munch with a cup of tea on cold winter’s day while it poured with rain. The best part? The creamy icing.
You need to feed 3 fashionistas, 20 models or one hungry bloke .
125 g self-raising flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
2/3 cup olive oil
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups finely grated carrot
60 g roughly chopped walnuts
- Preheat oven to 180.
- Slip into black Louis Vuitton fleece jumpsuit.
- Climb into Prada Ugg boots.
- Moisterise a cake tin (a small 18cm one this cake is not a big cake).
- Roughly chop the walnuts.
- Grate the carrots in a whizzer or if you have to do it by hand delegate that to George Clooney. It’s too boring and too bad on the nails for you to even attempt it.
- Now find a bowl.
- Toss in the flour, sugar and the spices.
- Throw in the oil and the eggs and then beat them up with an electric mixer for about 1 minute.
- Now stir in carrot and walnuts.
- Pour into a the cake tin.
- Bake for about 1 hour.
- Let it cool in the cake tin before turning it out in a plate.
- Now while the cake cools down you can make the icing.
- Mix about 200g of Philadelphia cream cheese, with 2 tsp melted butter and 200g icing sugar.
- Spread over the cake and watch the drizzle over the side.
- Healthy and delicious.
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simple and delicious! I made this one sunday afternoon with my daughter (who devoured it - only way she’dd eat carrots!). next time I’d use a milder oil, as the olive oil flavour came through a little strong x
Thanks for the feedback ! It’s delicious and it’s true about the olive oil so you could always use butter ! outrageous I know.
the olive oil came through cause that’s what it’s meant to do leave other peoples names off the recipe if you are going to adulterate them i know it’s hard to be original!!!
Adultering without credit is plagiarism, my friend! Fifi is too good for that.
Actually it is credited! It credits Stephanie Alexander and gives the name of the book too.