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South African carrot cake

55 min • 8 to 10 servings •
hester surmon
Slice of homemade carrot cake with raisins on a white plate, with the rest of the cake in a baking dish in the background.

This really is a lovely cake to eat you can even enjoy it with custard as a pudding.

Ready

wet ingredients

  • 8ml margarine or butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 eggs beat till light and fluffy

    • dry ingredients

  • 1 ½ cup flour
  • 2t ginger
  • ¼t salt
  • 1 ¼ t bicarb of soda
  • ½ t

    • carrot mix

  • 2tablesp apricot jam
  • 1 cup very fine grated carrots
  • 2 tablesp chopped nuts
  • 1 cup raisens
  • 1 cup buttermilk or yogurt(any flavour)

    • Set

  • large bowl
  • spatula
  • greased ovendish

    • Go!

  • Beat eggs till light and fluffy and mix with other wet ingredients.
  • Add dry ingredients (flour, ginger, salt, bicarb of soda, nutmeg) mix well into the egg mix.
  • Add to this the carrot mix and mix well.
  • Bake in greased ovendish for 30 to 40 min at 350°F cool and turn out.
  • You can ice this cake or eat it thinly sliced with marg and jam.

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