Carrot Cake with Cocoa Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients

• 140 g flour
• 200 g caster sugar
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 440 g crushed pineapple in syrup
• 55 g pecans, chopped
• 65 g raisins
• 120 g dark chocolate, chopped
• 200 g carrots, grated
• 500 g cream cheese
• 260 g icing sugar
• 40 g cocoa

Method

1. Preheat the oven and grease a cake tin.
2. Mix the flour, caster sugar, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
3. Whisk the eggs, oil and vanilla together.
4. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
5. Fold in the pineapple, pecans, raisins, chocolate and grated carrots.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
7. Bake until the cake is cooked through.
8. Allow the cake to cool completely.
9. Beat the cream cheese, icing sugar and cocoa until smooth.
10. Spread the cocoa cream cheese icing over the cooled cake.