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# Carrot Cake · Rampant Scotland

Recipes

# Carrot Cake

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A slice of carrot cake with frosting and pink and white heart sprinkles on a white plate.Our own carrot cake, baked for an anniversary. This photo isn't from the original page.

*Traditional Scottish Recipes*
 *- Carrot Cake*

*Carrot cake is often found wherever "home baking" is advertised and there are many variations on the recipe. The ingredients below will make two, one pound cakes.*

## Ingredients

- 8 oz (2 cups) wholemeal flour
- 8 oz (2 cups) brown sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Half a cup melted butter or oil
- 4 eggs
- Half cup chopped walnuts
- 14 ounces (3 cups) finely grated carrot
- Zest of an orange

## Ingredients for Icing

- Half pound (two cups) icing sugar
- 3 oz cream cheese (under half a cup)
- One teaspoon vanilla essence (extract)
- 3 oz butter (Three quarters of a cup)

## Method

Mix the dry ingredients together and then add the walnuts and carrots, mixing well. Beat the eggs and them and the butter (or oil) and mix well. Pour the mixture into two, one pound rectangular loaf tins or one, two pound loaf tin. A nine inch round cake tin can also be used.
 Bake for an hour in a pre-heated oven at 350F/180C/Gas Mark 4
 Make the icing by beating the ingredients together and, once the cake has cooled, decorate the top and the side with the icing.

## Source

From Rampant Scotland, restored from the page as it stood on 14 April 2024. [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20240414212334/http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_carrotcake.htm).

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