MY MOTHER'S PASSION CAKE This is one of the first cakes I remember making with my mother. We call it passion cake at home but it's essentially just a carrot cake. I try not to make it too often because I could easily polish it off alone! Moist and moreish is how I would describe it. Enjoy!
Author: tootsievalentine <http://localhost:5918/getImage?rid=610362&entity=4> Ingredients For the cake.... 6 fl oz oil (vegetable or corn) 6 oz caster sugar 3 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 4 oz walnut pieces 8 oz carrots 6 oz plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp cinnamon pinch of salt For the icing..... 6 oz soft cream cheese 4 oz butter 2 tsp lemon juice 8 oz icing sugar walnuts to garnish Method For the cake: 1.Pre -heat the oven to 180c/350F/gas 4. Grease two 8" round cake tins & line with greaseproof paper. 2.Mix the oil, sugar, eggs and essence. Beat well. 3.Chop the walnuts. Wash and peel the carrots then coarsely grate. Add the carrots and walnuts to the mixture with the flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, cinnamon and salt. Mix well then pour equally into the tins. 4.Bake for 30-35 mins, until the cakes spring back when pressed and a skewer comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack before icing. For the icing: 1.Add the butter to the cream cheese and beat well until fluffy. 2.Cream the icing sugar and cream cheese-butter mixture together. Add the lemon juice and beat well. 3.Spread the icing over the top of one of the cakes and sandwich the second one on top. 4.Spread the remaining icing over the top of the cake and decorate with walnuts or any way you like! Source: nigella.com <http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/my-mothers-passion-cake-871> -- *Ginny Butterfield Cranberry Twp, PA * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
