“Hey Jude” Carrot Cake

Jess and i traveled to Dunedin (NZ) bout a month or so ago, and encountered this gem of a cake at our dear friend Lucys 21st.

It was the classic (nelson-hippy-child-bday-cake) with a few surprises. Firstly, it had coconut, and it was very moist (i hate that word, but it was…) which i was to learn later is due to a can of pineapple in it.

My 21st was a few weeks later so i tracked down the recipe from lucys’ mum Jude. Jude was one of those mums who was notorious for having screeds of mouth watering treats in the house when we were growing up. It was rather convenient because Lucys’ house was situated beside the girls college (and beside the boarding hostel… many a hungry boarder was nourished). —– tangent—sorry——

Anyway, the cake instructions follow as they were sent to me from Lucy/Jude (on my bebo account – how post-modern)
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Jude and Lucy Carrot cake:
3 eggs
3/4 c cooking oil
1 1/2 c brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla (NOT imitation vanilla… Please)
2 c wholemeal flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1tsp nutmeg
1/2 c yoghurt or sour milk
3 c grated carrot
1 c coconut
1 tin (227g-small) of crushed pineapple

beat eggs till pale. add oil, brown sugar, & vanilla. mix well. mix flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg. fold into egg& sugar mix. add yoghurt, carrot, coconut & drained pineapple. stir gently but thoroughly. pour into greased & paper-lined tin.
bake @ 180 degrees for 1 1/2 hours, check after an hour or so.

icing:
50g butter
1/4 c cream cheese
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp grated orange rind
1 c icing sugar
1-2 tsp Orange juice

cream butter and cream cheese together. add vanilla, grated orange rind & icing sugar. stir in orange juice & beat icing untill smooth and creamy. it will curdle if too much orange juice added – YUM!!!

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My additional notes -

• As i usually do… i doubled the recipe. (who doesn’t?!)

• I didn’t have wholemeal flour so i just used white flour.

• I added my new favorite ingredient. Ground linseed/flaxseed. Its super good for you and gives the mixture a little texture, but not too noticeable in the taste.
• The can of pineapple i had was bigger than 227, so i just added the whole thing…

So yeah… thats my first contribution!

Do try it out and report back.

Hey Jude…. you ROCK….!

Meg.

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