recipes

from Santa's kitchen

Banana Carrot Cake

Ingredients

250 ml sugar
250 ml sunflower oil
3 eggs
275 ml cake flour
10 ml cinnamon
5 ml bicarbonate of soda
250 ml mashed banana
250 ml coarsely grated carrots
125 ml chopped walnuts

Method

Beat sugar, oil and eggs well.
Sift dry ingredients together and add to above.
Add banana, carrots and nuts. Mix lightly.
Pour into two layer cake tins.
Bake for 25 to 35 minutes at 180 C.
Ice with cream cheese. Keep in fridge.

 

Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients

110 ml margarine
375 ml icing sugar
100 ml cream cheese
5 ml vanilla essence
chopped walnuts (optional)

Method

Cream margarine and icing sugar.
Best cream cheese and vanilla essence with above.
Stir in chopped nuts.
Refrigerate before use as it will be very soft from beating.