Carrot banana cake with cream cheese icing
(1)
1 hour 15 min
The key to keeping this carrot cake moist is the addition of mashed bananas. If you skip the icing, this cake becomes dairy free.
Jane_245
24 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 340g caster sugar
- 225ml vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 450g self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 80g desiccated coconut
- 4 carrots, peeled and grated
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
- 100g chopped pecans or walnuts
- Icing
- 120g butter, softened
- 225g cream cheese, softened
- 450g icing sugar
- milk to thin, as needed
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:1hr ›
Ready in:1hr15min
- Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a tube cake tin.
- Beat together the sugar and vegetable oil. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Sift flour and bicarb into the sugar mixture and combine. Fold in coconut, carrots, bananas and pecans. Pour cake mixture into prepared tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 60 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
- To prepare the icing: cream together butter, cream cheese and icing sugar. Add enough milk to make a good spreading consistency. Spread over cooled carrot cake.
Cake tins
You can use two 23cm round cake tins instead of a tube cake tin; simply adjust baking time as needed.
