Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Use a square baking tin lined with baking paper
3 eggs
1/2 cup of quality olive oil
1 1/4 cups of brown sugar (soft)
1 cup of self raising flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon of bi carb soda
pinch of salt
1.4 of a cup of quartered macadamias
1 cup grated carrot
Icing:
125g cream cheese softened
1 cup icing sugar
2 teaspoons orange juice
some spare ground macadamias for garnishing the icing
Preheat oven to 170 degrees fan forced. Grease the baking tin with paper with a little butter/oil.
Combine the eggs, oil, brown sugar in a large bowl. Add sifted flour, cinnamon, bi carb, pinch of salt and beat with a mixer until combined and smooth. Add nuts and carrot and stir well.
Pour this mixture into the tin and bake for approx 30 minutes or until skewer comes out with no wet cake on it. Leave cake for approx 30 minutes on cake cooler. Make the cream cheese frosting by placing cream cheese, icing sugar, orange juice in a bowl and mixing until spreadable. Spread over cooled cake and place some grated macadamias on the top.
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