Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake
Ingredients: 
500ml brown sugar
375ml sunflower oil
4 eggs
5ml vanilla extract
750ml cake flour
5ml salt
12.5ml bicarbonate of soda
15ml ground cinnamon
250ml chopped pecan nuts
375ml desiccated coconut
500ml carrot puree
180ml crushed pineapple, drained
Icing: 80g butter
125g thick cream cheese
625ml sifted icing sugar
grated rind of 1 lemon
10ml grated orange rind
20ml orange juice

 
Beat the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla  together in a large mixing bowl.  
Sift the flour, salt, bicarbonate of  soda and cinnamon and add to the  egg mixture.
Mix thoroughly.  
Stir in the nuts, coconut, carrot  and pineapple and mix well.  

Pour the batter into a wellgreased  25cm ring pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a skewer  inserted into the cake comes out  clean.

Cool in the pan for 10 minutes  before turning out.
When completely  cool, spread with the icing.  

ICING:
Cream the butter and cream  cheese until smooth.
Add the icing  sugar, lemon and orange rind and  mix well.
Mix in enough orange  juice for a spreadable consistency.

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