Carrot and Orange Cake Recipe

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Carrot and Orange Squares

Cake
225ml/ 8 fl oz sunflower oil
225g /8 oz caster sugar
3 large eggs
250g /9 oz carrots - grated
225g / 8 oz self-raising flour
1 tsp orange flower water (or orange juice)

Icing
50g /2oz butter
200g Philadelphia Cream Cheese ('Light', if you are feeling virtuous)
40g/ 1 1/2 oz icing sugar
Grated rind and juice of 1 orange

Method

Heat oven to 180C
Grease and line a 7x11x1 inch tin (approximately 18mm x28mm x3mm tin)

Cake
Whisk oil and sugar together, then whisk in the eggs one at a time. Fold in the carrots, the self-raising flour and the orange flower water. Pour into the tin and bake for about 40 minutes. Leave in the tin for about 10 minutes then turn out onto a rack to cool.

Icing. Beat the butter and Philadelphia till fluffy. Beat in the icing sugar, orange zest and juice. Spread ¼" deep over the cold cake. Decorate with more orange zest. Cut into squares.

NB. Belgian Equivalents:
Self-Raising Flour - Farine Fermentante/ Zelfrijzend bakmeel. I usually add a pinch of baking powder too,S-R Flour in the UK seems to have slightly more raising agent than it does here.

Icing Sugar - Sucre Impalpable/ Bloem Suiker

Note: For the Scones recipes look at the posting for 10/30/2007!