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Banana and Carrot Cake

  • Vegetarian
Preparation time:
30 minutes
Cooking time:
1 ¼ hours, plus cooling
Total time:
1 ¾ hours, plus cooling 60 minutes 45 minutes
Serves:
 8

Ingredients

  • 3 medium eggs
  • 175g soft brown sugar
  • 175g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 175ml sunflower oil
  • 175g walnut pieces
  • 2 ripe, medium bananas, mashed
  • 175g grated carrot
  • Icing
  • 75g butter, softened
  • 75g cream cheese
  • 150g icing sugar, sifted
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • Chopped walnuts, to decorate

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3. Grease a 20cm-diameter cake tin with removable base.
  2. Beat the eggs and the sugar together until thick. Sift in the flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate of soda. Mix well then add the oil and walnuts, then the banana and carrot.
  3. Pour into the tin. Bake for 1¼ hours or until a skewer comes out clean. Cover with foil if it begins to brown too much. Cool on a rack.
  4. For the icing, beat the butter and cheese together, then add the sugar and vanilla. Spread on the cold cake. Finish with walnuts.

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kams

kams 15 November 2011 16:50

It smells gorgeous and looks good. I have baked it for the required amount of time and measured the ingredients carefully. And.. it came out so wet and sticky my family don't want to eat because they think it's raw.. arrghhh!

DrAnnie

DrAnnie 27 October 2011 10:20

I love this cake recipe but I have a new oven and my cake rises very nicely but then a circular rim aound the centre sinks! So I have a dome in the centre sloping down then rising up at the the very edge. I'm accurate with my measurements but I don't add any walnuts & I use an oven thermometer. I put foil on after about 50-55 mins for around 10 mins as it tends to start to burn and an hour is all it seems to need. Any ideas?

 07 July 2011 16:00

Amazing light moist cake. Halved the salt and added half a tsp of vanilla extract. Also halved the walnuts. I also didn't add icing as I thought it was nice enough without the added sugar on top. Great recipe.

 06 July 2011 14:45

I made this cake at the weekend. I didn't put in the Banana and am pleased to say this didn't affect the cakes in any way. It is by far the best Carrot cake recipe I have tried to date and my colleagues at work, friends and family all agree!!

Elaine

Elaine 08 April 2011 15:33

My 16 year old son made this today during a break from revision for his forthcoming GCSE's. He omitted 50g of the walnuts and replaced them with sultanas. He also replaced the salt with ground cinnamon. The result is a delicious and moist cake. Well done.

 10 March 2011 10:37

this is the third time i have made this cake and it`s the best carrot cake i have ever made. moist and even moister after a few days. i however did add cinnamon, vanilla extract and raisins to the cake mixture. i shall be making this on a regular basis as the saying goes away to a mans heart is through your cooking and my partner defo loved this. so just wanna say thanks for helping me find this recipe.

avaloncook

avaloncook 17 November 2010 19:11

Love this recipe - easy to to do so moist and everyone loves it.

sabz

sabz 19 August 2010 08:52

This is the best cake I have ever made! And I have made my fair share of cakes... I have made this cake following the recipe (adding an extra banana though).. made it about 40 times and everyone loves it.. its definitely the best carrot cake I have had.. tastes better the ones they have at cafes. BEAUTIFUL!! Btw I have just registered onto this site all the way from Australia.. so I can comment on this recipe :)

Wee Kate

Wee Kate 25 July 2010 09:59

This is the first cake I have ever baked and it was a triumph! Super yummy and keeps very well. Only thing I found was that it was ready in an hour rather than the recommended 1 1/4 hours. I'll definitely make this again!

xHaNNaHx

xHaNNaHx 10 January 2009 14:17

the sweetest sin x

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in April 2005