Cake
1 cup | Vegetable oil |
2 cups | Raw sugar |
4 | Eggs |
1 cup | Canned crushed pineapple, drained |
1 cup | Self raising flour |
1 tsp | Cinnamon |
1 cup | Wholemeal flour (Main) |
1 tsp | Nutmeg |
2 cups | Carrots, grated (Main) |
1 tsp | Baking powder |
½ cup | Walnuts, roasted and chopped |
½ cup | Coconut, toasted |
Icing
50 g | Butter, softened |
250 g | Cream cheese, softened |
2 tsp | Lemons, zest, finely grated |
2 tsp | Vanilla extract |
2 ¼ cups | Icing sugar, sieved |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180C. Grease or line the cake tin.
- In one large bowl, whisk the eggs then whisk in the sugar and oil. Stir in the pineapple.
- Sieve the wholemeal flour with the self-raising flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking powder.
- Gently fold into the first mixture with the carrot, walnuts and coconut. Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
- Make the icing by beating the cream cheese with the butter until smooth, then beat in the vanilla, lemon and icing sugar.