Friday 4 May 2012

Aysha's Carrot Cake

A piece of Aysha's Carrot Cake
This cake was made for my sister's birthday and it was absolutely amazing.
If you feel like having something sweet, this is the dessert to make. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

3 eggs
180 ml (3/4 cup) vegetable oil
180 ml (3/4 cup) buttermillk
500 ml (2 cups) sugar
500 ml (2 cups) all purpose flour
10 ml (2 tsp) baking soda
10 ml (2 tsp) cinammon
2 ml (1/2 tsp) salt
250 ml (1 cup) crushed pineapple, drained
500 ml (2 cups) grated carrots
250 ml (1 cup) coarsely chopped walnuts
180 ml (3/4 cup) shredded coconut

Icing-

250g  cream cheese
60 ml (1/4 cup) softened butter
1/2 tsp (2 ml) vanilla
250 ml (1 cup) icing sugar

In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, oil, buttermilk and sugar with an electric mixer until blended.
Add flour, soda, cinammon and salt. Blend.
Mix in pineapple, carrots, nuts and coconut.
Pour into greased 33 x 23 cm baking dish.  Bake at 180 C (350 F) for 55 minutes.

In a bowl, beat cream cheese with butter until smooth. Beat in vanilla.  Then beat in icing sugar one-third at a time, until smooth. Spread over top of the cake once cooled.

Now it's time to enjoy a piece of cake, I guarantee you will love it :)

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