Carrot cake

This is my all time favourite carrot cake. I have combined two best recipes and put them together and make my own version carrot cake The secret ingredients for this carrot cake is the mixed spice. It gives the cake a little bit of spice taste which compliment the cake a lot. Give a try and you will know what I mean.

Ingredients:

190g soft table margarine
210g soft brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
1/2 cup grated carrot
3/4 cup roasted almonds, coarsely chopped
1 1/2 tsp mixed spice

Sift
100g plain flour
90g self-raising flour

Method:

Line and grease a 20cm square or round cake pan. Preheat oven at 180C.

Beat soft margarine, sugar and essence until light and fluffy. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Fold in grated carrot and chopped almonds. Add sifted dry ingredients and mixed spice.

Turn out mixture into prepared cake pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.


Icing:

1 packet (250g) cream cheese, softened.
1/4 cup butter. softened
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup icing sugar

Method:

In bowl, beat cream cheese with butter until smooth. Beat in vanilla and beat in icing sugar, one third at a time until smooth. Spread over top of cake.