Ingredients

  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups finely grated carrot
  • 1-1/3 cups plain flour
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 1/3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • orange wedges to serve

Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 80g cream cheese, softened
  • 60g butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup icing-sugar mixture
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup finely chopped walnuts

Method

Preheat oven to moderately slow (160C). Grease a 22cm-round cake pan and line base and side with baking paper. Beat sugar and eggs in a small bowl with an electric mixer until pale and thick. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake for about 1 hour or until cooked when tested. Stand cake in pan for 5 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack to cool.

For the cream cheese frosting beat cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla in a small bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy. Spread Frosting over top of cake. Sprinkle with walnuts.

Serve cake with orange wedges.

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