Carrot and Banana Cake
A wonderful combination of a carrot cake and a banana cake in one with delicious icing on top.
Ingredients
Cake:
- 3 eggs
- 175 g brown sugar
- 175 g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 175 ml sunflower oil
- 175 g walnuts broken into pieces,
- 2 bananas (medium size), mashed,
- 175 g carrot grated
Icing:
- 75 g butter soft
- 75 g cream cheese
- 150 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- walnuts for decoration
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 170 Celsius degrees (150 fan ovens).
- Grease a 20 cm-diameter cake tin with a removable base and cover its bottom with baking paper.
- In a food processor or with electric mixer beat the eggs and sugar until thick and pale.
- Add sifted flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate of soda; mix until everything is combined.
- Add the oil, walnuts, bananas and carrots, mix.
- Pour the batter into the cake tin, put to the hot oven and bake for approx. 75 minutes (until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean).
- To make the icing, beat the butter and cream cheese together, add the sugar and vanilla and beat for little longer.
- Spread the icing on the cold cake and decorate with walnuts.
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