Mixed Vegetable Slab Cake

Mixed Vegetable Slab Cake
Ingredients: 
3 eggs
375ml light brown sugar
125ml oil
5ml vanilla extract
250ml cake flour
250ml wholewheat flour
3ml salt
7ml bicarbonate of soda
5ml ground cinnamon
3ml ground ginger
750ml grated mixed vegetables (carrots, courgettes, parsnips and apple)
Icing: 80g butter
125g thick cream cheese
500ml icing sugar
5ml ground cinnamon
5ml vanilla extract
 
Great to use up spare vegetables
Beat the eggs and sugar until thick  and pale.
Beat in the oil and vanilla.  
Sift the flours, salt, bicarbonate of  soda and spices and add.
Mix to  combine.
Add the grated vegetables  and mix.  

Spoon the mixture into a 20cm  square cake pan which has been  lined with non-stick baking paper  and sprayed with non-stick cooking  spray.

Bake at 180ºC for 40-50 minutes  until a skewer inserted into the cake  comes out clean.  

Remove and cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out.
When  the cake is cool completely, spread  with the icing and cut into squares.  

ICING:
Cream the butter and cream  cheese until smooth.
Add icing  sugar, cinnamon and vanilla and  mix until fluffy. 

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