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Jeanette's popular carrot cake recipe
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Jeanette's popular carrot cake recipe

"The best carrot cake I have ever eaten" - Ali
20 September 2022 4:26PM

Hi Ali here!

Jeanette Thomas from The Breeze Auckland made us the best Carrot Cake I have ever eaten (our whole team agreed). So I begged her for the recipe and here it is. Thanks JT ! 

Ingredients

2 cups of wholemeal flour 

2 tsp Baking Soda

2 cups Raw Sugar 

1/4 tsp salt

2 LARGE tsp cinnamon 

1 cup orange juice /oil (2/3 orange & the rest olive oil)

4 lightly beaten eggs

3 cups of grated carrot 

Method

1. Mix the dry ingredients 

2. Add the orange juice, eggs and grated carrot. Mix them well. 

3.  Place the mixture into your cake tin. I used a 20cm square tin

4. Bake it on 180C for approximately an hour

For the Cream Cheese Icing 

Ingredients

1 tub of cream cheese 

Knob of butter

2 cups icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence 

Method

Beat all ingredients together and spread them on the cake.

Jeanette's popular carrot cake recipe