Carrot cake - loaf tin

You will need

175g wholemeal self- raising flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Pinch of salt

2 teaspoons mixed spice

150ml sunflower oil

175g soft light brown sugar

3 medium eggs

100g raisins, currants or sultanas

250g grated carrots

                                              

Cream cheese topping

200g cream cheese

Vanilla extract

4 tablespoons of icing sugar ( or more, depending on how you like it )

The baking - The cake

. Preheat your oven to 180c, prepare your tin grease with butter and or baking parchment

. Sift the flour into your bowl stirring, the salt, baking powder and spice

. Stir in remaining ingredients untill well mixed

. Pour mixture into the tin and bake in the oven untill cooked (you can check this with a skewer, push skewer into the middle of the cake, it should come out clean when the cake is done)

The baking - The icing

. Sift your icing sugar into a bowl

. Mix the cream cheese untill the mixture is soft and fluffy

. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence 

Let your cake cool, ice the top, garnish if you like.