Marena’s Carrot Cake

The only carrot cake I ever made, and the only recipe I’ll ever need!

My dear friend Marana was given this recipe while travelling through the USA and she made it once for my birthday. It was so amazing that I had to try it myself. Its very easy despite all that carrot grating!

INGREEDIENTS

For the cake

• 4 eggs

• 250g castor sugar

• 185ml coconut oil

• 1 tsp salt

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

• 2 tsp cinnamon

• 300g carrots, grated (plus extra for decorating)

• 50g walnuts (plus extra for decorating)

For the frosting

• 200g mascarpone

• 200g Greek yoghurt

• 200g icing sugar

METHOD

For the cake

• Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees C

• Grease a 24cm cake tin

• Mix the eggs together with the sugar

• Pour in the oil and m ix well

• Add everything else (apart from the carrots and walnuts) to the wet mixture and mix

• Finally add the carrots and walnuts and mix

• Bake for 1 hour

• Leave to cool completely on a wire rack

For the frosting

• Make the frosting by beating all the ingredients until light and fluffy (using more or less icing sugar to taste)

• Spread the frosting over the top and decorate with wall nuts and grated carrot as you desire

Some carrot cakes have a layer of frosting in the middle as well as on top, but this version is a little too thin to cut in half, but to be honest I think the one layer is enough and the ratio of cake to frosting is perfect!

If you want to go all out, you could double the cake up and make two cakes in 2 tins and then sandwich some frosting between them as well as on top. I reckon if nothing else, it would be a sight to behold!

Enjoy! Joseph x