There I was thinking its time to bake another cake (I usually bake an apple cake at the weekend); I had been pondering trying a different cake (any suggestions welcome). However I then saw a bowl of carrots that Cecilia had pulled yesterday. They weren’t very good carrots – the carrot fly had been busy – but there was enough good bits to go into a cake.
I didn’t have a recipie for carrot cake to hand, so I substituted 8oz of grated carrots for the diced apple in my spice apple cake. I was a bit worried that carrots were less juicy than apples so I put in a bit more fluid (from the soaked sultanas).
The resulting cake took longer to bake than the apple cake. It normally takes about an hour in a moderate oven (180 °C), but this one took 1hr 20mins.
A very tasty cake! I had to get a second opinion – Cecilia agreed, it was a good cake!
that looks gorgeous, would there be any later this week? We may be visiting with friends:)
Hmmm…by thursday it will probably be mostly gone, but if it is I will bake another for you!