- 10
Ingredients
- 2 C self rising flour
- 2 t baking powder
- 1 C brown sugar
- 4 oz ready to eat dried figs, roughly chopped
- 8 oz carrots, grated
- 2 sm ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 C sunflower oil
- 3/4 C cream cheese
- 1 1/2 C 10x sugar( icing)
Preparation
Step 1
Lightly grease a 7" round, loose- based spring form cake pan.
Cut a piece of baking parchment or grease pfoof ( wax) paper to fit the base of the tin.
Preheat the oven to 350*.
Put the flour, baking powder and sugar into a large bowl and mix well.
Stir in the figs.
Using your hands, squeeze as much liquid out of the grated carrots as you can and add them to the bowl.
Mix in tne mashed bananas.
Beat the eggs and oil together and pour them into the mixture.
Beat together with a wooden spoon.
Spoon into prepared pan and level the top.
Cook for 1- 1 1/4 hrs, until a skewer pushed into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Remove the cake from the tin and leave to cool.
Beat the cream cheese and 10x sugar together to make a thick frosting.
Spread it over the top of the cake.
Deorate with small colored candies, nuts or grated chocolate.
Cut in small wedges to serve.