Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 150g vegetable oil
• 90g white sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 165g shredded carrots
• 55g walnuts

Sift together:

• 125g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder

Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 125g cream cheese (room temp)
• 50g butter (room temp)
• 50gm icing sugar (sifted)
• few drops of lemon juice

Directions

1.Preheat oven 180 deg C and lined grease paper in 20cm X 20cm baking tray.

2. With an electric mixer, beat eggs, oil, white sugar and vanilla extract. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Stir in carrots and walnuts.

3. Pour into prepared baking tin and bake for 40mins.

4. To make cream cheese frosting: Mix all the ingredients and beat till well blended. Spread frosting on top of cool cake. Frost for an hour and cut into squares.