Healthy Carrot Cake

I baked this cake for my mums birthday as it is her favorite type of cake and she loved it.    Serves 7.          EASY

Ingredients:

75g butter or margarine

125g soft light brown sugar

3 eggs

1/2 liter of carrots (about 4 medium carrots)

peel of 1 orange

125g flour

2tsp baking powder

1tsp cinnamon

50g chopped nuts (hazel nuts almonds and walnuts

For the butter cream:

65g butter or margarine

115g icing sugar, sifted

1-2 tbsp orange juice

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Then grease and line the base and sides of a 18cm cake tin.

2. Mix together the butter and sugar until smooth. Blend in the eggs, one at a time. Mix in the grated carrots and orange peel.Then put in the milk, baking powder, cinnamon and nuts and stir well.

3. Pour the mix into the cake tin and cook in the oven for 50 mins. Then let the cake cool.

4. For the butter cream: Cream the butter until soft. Gradually beat in the icing sugar, adding the vanilla essence and orange juice, to form a smooth icing.