Joe's Favourite Carrot Cake

                    Ingredients

               300g plain flour

               2 tsp cinnamon  

               1 tsp baking powder    

               ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
               200g soft brown sugar

               4 medium eggs    

               250ml oil

               1 orange (zested)

               1 lemon (zested)

               200g finely grated carrots

               150g walnuts chopped

Method

1. Heat the oven to gas mark 2/ 130C. Line a 20cm, 10cm deep cake tin.
2. Sift the flour, cinnamon, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda together and stir in the sugar. Beat the eggs with the oil and citrus zests. Stir in the carrots and fold everything into the flour mixture then fold in the walnuts.
3. Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for 1 hour 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Then allow to cool.
4. For the frosting, beat the butter and icing sugar together until soft and then beat in the cream cheese.

5. Chill the mixture until it's thick but spreadable. Spread a thick layer on top of the cake, making sure the side of the icing is flat and continues upwards from the side of the cake.

      Hope you like it as much as me its my favourite cake!
                      Joseph