Carrot Cake-Loaf

 Left-over carrots? Why not use them to make a carrot cake.

What you need

• ca 300g carrots
• 200g sugar or brown sugar
• 180g plain flour
• 2 large or 3 medium eggs
• 140ml vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons of baking powder
• pinch of salt
• ground cinnamon
• freshly grated nutmeg
• cardamon powder
• vanilla extract

For the icing I simply use 

• lemon juice
• icing sugar

Equipment

• mixer/blender
• kitchen bowl and mixer
• baking form
• grater
• baking/grease-proof paper

How you do it

• pre-heat the oven to ca 150C
• grease the baking form with butter or oil. Insert the grease-proof/baking foil. It should stick against the form
• peel and grate the carrots, put aside
• put the eggs and sugar in the bowl. If you have a mixer, use a whisker and whip up the eggs/sugar until it gets to a creamy consistency
• add all the other ingredients and continue mixing. The dough may well be a bit liquid, but that's ok.
• pour the content into the baking form. Et voilà put it into the oven.
• Bake for 1h15min (75min)
• take the form out of the oven. you should be able to lift the cake out of the form by lifting the baking paper. transfer the cake to a plate
• in a bowl, sift in the icing sugar. Add the lemon juice. And then whisk it (with an electric/handheld device) to make sure that no lumps are left. You might need to add icing sugar to ensure a thick consistency.
• pour the icing slowly over the cake. You may have to do this in stages, otherwise the whole icing runs off.