Carrot Cake

• 2 3/4 cups carrots grated
• 1 2/3 cups caster sugar
• 1 5/8 cups plain flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3/4 cup raisins
• 6 3/4 tablespoons sunflower oil plus extra greasing
• 3 medium eggs
• 1 teaspoon extract vanila
• 7 3/4 tablespoons butter
• 15/16 cup icing sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon banana extract

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C/ 35o F/ Gas mark 4. Grease your cake tin and line the base with baking parchment . Grate the carrots.
2. Put the grated carrot in a bowl. Add the sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, ground ginger and cinnamon.
3. Then add your raisins and mix every thing together......as you mix, the juice from the carrots makes the mixture moist and gooey!
4. Whisk your oil, eggs, vanilla in a small bowl, then pour it with your batter and stir. Pour it into your prepared tin and bake for 40 mins.
5. To make the frosting beat the butter until it is soft, then add banana extract and icing sugar a little at a time.
6. Once the cake is baked put it into a cooling rack to cool it down.
7. After the cake is cooling down, put the cake into a cake board to decorate, then add your frosting and make the carrots out of fondant.

carrots, caster sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ground ginger, raisins, sunflower oil, eggs, vanila, butter, icing sugar, banana

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Carrot-Cake-1555034 (may not work)