Carrot-mantic

You will need:

-for the cake:

150 ml sunflower oil

200 gr brown sugar

4 grated carrots

2 eggs

3 tablespoon milk

50 gr walnuts

200 gr flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp nutmeg

3 tsp baking powder

1 pinch of salt

-for the icing:

300 gr cream cheese

100 gr butter

orange zest

sugar to taste (1/2 cup)

How to:

the cake:

Pre-heat the oven at 180 C;

beat the eggs with the sugar, then add the oil and the milk;

if you want mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, otherwise add them one by one to the wet ingredients mix;

add the grated carrots and mix well;

chop the walnuts in small pieces (but don’t reduce them to powder!) and add them to the mix. You’ll end up with a rather dense batter, but that’s fine;

butter a round cake pan and then dust with flour. Pour the batter in and let cook in the oven for about 50′-1h, until a skewer comes out clean;

wait 10′ before taking the cake out of the tin, then let cool well before decorating with the icing.

the icing:

Let the butter and the cream cheese at room temperature for at least one hour;

beat the cream cheese with a spoon to soften it up;

beat the butter with the sugar until smooth and combined, then incorporate the cream cheese;

grate the orange zest, and add it to the icing;

let cool in the fridge.

when the cake is well cold, lay the icing on top and if you want decorate it with some walnuts or caramelized orange zest.

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