Carrot cake

[kitty1950]

Has anyone got a recipe for carrot cake? I have tried google but they all seem to be american recipes with nuts and dried fruit. I found one in a old copy of Good Food magazine but that used crushed pineapple as well, which I will try as a last resort. Many thanks in advance.

[Buenchico]

The BBC website has lots of recipes for carrot cake. Just go to http://www.bbc.co.uk and enter 'carrot cake recipe' in the search box at the top left.

Here are a couple to get you started;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A457139
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/carrotcake_74 64.shtml

Chris

PS: The BBC site is wonderful for all sorts of recipes.

[kitty1950]

Many thanks Buenchico.

Kath

[nickmo]

And go to www.recipe-ideas.co.uk. You can search the site for any combination of recipes. Choose from ingredient, method, etc., or at foot of home page use the search box.

Or try the recipe source, www.epicurious.com. Enter search term and see what comes up. Have a go at carrot cake with orange marmalade frosting, or add Irish Cream to it, or coconut......

[happy_face]

I know this isn't a recipe but Betty Crockers carrot cake tastes divine. Just buy the icing seperately.Couldn't make it better myself.

[snapdarlich]

If you're interested, here's a beautiful topping you won't find in the shops. We use it for our carrot cake in our bakery and it's one of our biggest sellers...

Firstly Take 3 parts Icing sugar and mix it with 2 parts butter or preferably and high Quality Cake Margarine and a splash of vanilla essence. Mix for about 5-8 minutes until the mixture comes up. then take some of the mix and add it to an identical amount of philadelphia cheese and a couple of drops of lemon essence. And beat up again...

Really beautiful and simple, but keep it refrigerated.

[snapdarlich]

I can't give you exact amount for what you require.

We use 3Kg icing sugar and 2Kg Cake Margarine for the first part! - A bit too much methinks!

[kitty1950]

Thanks to you all, I can see that I am going to be very busy for quite some time. Kath