Carrot, courgette & orange cakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Makes 2 x 20cm cakes, each cuts into 8-10 slices
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- 250g buttersoftened
- 200g caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 250g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- zest 2 oranges
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 100g carrotsgrated
- 100g courgettegrated
For the icing
- zest 1 orangeplus 2-3 tbsp juice
- 140g icing sugar
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal273
- fat14g
- saturates9g
- carbs35g
- sugars23g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.54glow
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line the bases of 2 x 20cm round cake tins with baking parchment. Beat the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, bicarb, zest and the mixed spice together, then stir in the carrot and courgette. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 20-25 mins or until a skewer inserted in comes out clean. Cool.
step 2
To make the topping, mix enough of the orange juice into the icing sugar to give a thick, but drizzly icing. Drizzle over the cakes, then scatter with the zest and leave to set.
