Great Carrot Cake recipes please - and Q about cream cheese when preggie :)

[Salsa]

Blahhh - I dont like sultanas or raisons either!
DH wimped out, so I am gonna make this tommorrow, thanks

[Nelle]

Do you think I could make this mixture tonight and store it in the fridge overnight and bake it tomorrow morning? Would that work, or be a disaster?

[Rouge]

It won't be a disaster, it should be fine, it might be a little denser, but it should still work. However just looking at the recipe she is using a lot of raising agents, which suggests to me the cake is not supposed to be too dense so maybe it wouldn't be a good idea... I guess you could try it and see

[Oorki Galoorki]

i made this last week and it was awesome!!!!!

Ingredients (serves 10)
2 cups (300g) self-raising flour
1 1/2 cups (225g) plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 cups (440g) caster sugar
3 1/2 cups coarsely grated carrot
100g walnuts, roughly chopped
1 1/4 cups (310ml) vegetable oil
5 eggs, lightly beaten
300g sour cream
2 tsp vanilla extract
Cream cheese frosting
500g cream cheese, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/3 cups (500g) icing sugar

Method
Preheat oven to 180?C. Grease and line a 25cm round cake pan with baking paper.
Sift flours, soda and spices into a large bowl. Add caster sugar, grated carrot and walnuts and stir to combine.
In a separate bowl, whisk oil, eggs, sour cream and vanilla until smooth.
Add to dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Pour into pan, smoothing top with a spatula. Bake in the oven for 2 hours or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool.
For frosting, beat cream cheese using electric beaters until smooth. Add vanilla and beat well. Gradually add icing sugar, beating until smooth and creamy.
Split cooled cake into 2 layers. Spread bottom layer with half the frosting. Add top, then spread with remaining frosting.

[Nelle]

Oh good DouDou, because I ended up just going to bed.

[Mak]

Doudou - I have made same recipe and it was AMAZING! I got so many compliments and it looked fab - was so moist and yumo!!!

[Nelle]

Ah crud I don't have sour cream. Is there anything you can substitute for sour cream?