Baking recipies :)

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I think Applecore should start with her awesome cupcake and icing recipie!!

The cupcake recipe is now on my blog Two Days Slow :3

woooooot! so yummy

Just saw that massive cupcake you made on ur blog. pleeeaaase tell us how you made that. or at least make another one and send it to me!

I have a special tin for it! I did think about bringing it last weekend but didn't bother as we weren't gonna have much time and its heavy. Will bring it when we have Bake-a-con It really is huge though!

Carrot Cake!

Ingredients

Ingredients

* 300g plain flour
* 2 tsp cinnamon
* 1 tsp baking powder
* ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
* 200g soft brown sugar
* 4 eggs
* 250ml oil
* 1 orange , zested
* 1 lemon , zested
* 200g carrots , finely grated
* 150g walnuts , chopped

For the cream cheese frosting:

* 125g unsalted butter at room temperature
* 50g icing sugar
* 250g cream cheese



Method

Heat the oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. Line a 20cm, 10cm deep cake tin. 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. Fold in the walnuts and pineapple if using. Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for 1 hour 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool.

For the frosting, beat the butter and icing sugar together until soft and then beat in the cream cheese. 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.