*Giddy* - and some carrot cake

Giddy - and some carrot cake

Am extremely happy today. Have discovered Nigel Slater's Real Food on Youtube (under TV, Food and then it streams from 4 on Demand)

http://www.youtube.com/shows?p=None&s=sftv&b=23

But, other little things I've been up to. Made a carrot cake today. The originating recipe was from James Martin's Desserts, however I made some fairly dramatic changes to it. None of the decoration, a different frosting, different flour, different flavouring, different sugar, no nuts etc etc.

My version therefore is as below:

Ingredients:

200g grated carrot (two big-uns..)

175g demerara sugar

2 large eggs

150ml sunflower/veg oil

200g self raising flour (I comboed baking powder and plain)

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tbsp cinnamon

120g sultanas

50g dessicated coconut

Frosting:

300g cream cheese

2 huge tbsp icing sugar

1/2 lemon worth of juice

Muesli

Method:

1. Sugar, eggs and oil. Mix.

2. Add flour, cinnamon and bicarb. Mix.

3. Put in sultanas, coconut and carrot. Mix (Note, I did a quick soak of the sultanas in a squeeze of lemon and a bit of cordial but on tasting it didn't really show since I had nice organic sultanas anyway.)

4. Pour into a pan (mine was about 8 inches, lined with parchment on the base, greased at the sides, and had a loose bottom.)

5. Bake for approximately an hour at Gas Mark 5. (Start prodding with the skewer at 35minutes)

6. Tip the humped back mary out onto a plate and leave the flat side up to ice. (Don't have to, but it saved me a dilemma of how to get it back down...)

7. The frosting. I used a couple of large, heaped table spoons of icing sugar (to be technical it was fondant sugar but that's just because that's what we had), dissolved it in a decent squeeze of half a lemon (we had lemon in the house), mixed with a 300g pack of philadelphia cheese to taste.

8. Spread around and then top with a sprinkle of muesli. Mine happened to be the uber pricy but 50% fruity Dorset brand but it is pretty and was damn yummy. Ah cake.

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