Pineapple Passion Cake

Here we have a pineapple passion cake recipe, for all you fruit and cake lovers out there. Drive a bit of passion back into your cake baking with this nice cake recipe.

Ingredients

Cake

175g Carrots, peeled and grated
85g Walnuts, chopped
425g can Crushed Pineapple
175g light soft brown sugar
3 Eggs
300g Plain flour
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp Baking powder
175ml Sunflower oil

Frosting

115g Cream cheese
55g Soft butter
175g Icing sugar
Few drops of vanilla essence

Decoration

Crystallised pineapple (if desired)

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4
Grease a 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin and line base with non-stick paper

In a bowl, stir carrots and walnuts together. Drain the pineapple and add to bowl with sugar and eggs. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into the bowl. Add sunflower oil to bowl and beat thoroughly to make a smooth batter. Pour mixture into prepared tin. Bake in the oven for 50 – 60 minutes until well risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Transfer cake to a wire rack to cool.

To make frosting, beat together cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl until smooth. Spread over cake and decorate

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