Carrot Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups lightly packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil (not extra virgin olive oil - needs a mild flavour)
• 1/3 cup golden syrup
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 1/2 cups (425g) firmly packed grated carrot
• 1/2 cup drained crushed canned pineapple
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)

Method

• Preheat oven to 160C and grease tin.
• Places eggs and sugar in a large mixing bowl and whisk until the sugar has dissolved. The mixture should be frothy.
• Mix in oil and golden syrup.
• Sift flour, bicarb, and cinnamon into the mixture and mix until smooth. Should be getting yummy!
• Stir in the remaining ingredients.
• Pour mixture into cake tin and bake for 1 - 1 1/4 hours.
• Allow to cool for 10 mins before cooling on a wire wrack. Dust with icing sugar or spread with cream cheese icing.

Source

David Herbert - The Perfect Cookbook.