Best little golden carrot cakes

Best Foods mayonnaise is not only a great spread and dip, it’s also a delicious and versatile ingredient in all your favourite recipes. Best Foods mayonnaise is a superb ingredient in all your baking, making it delicious and moist.

Like cake – Yum! Just try these amazing little carrot cakes.

Ingredients

2 cups self-raising flour

1 ½ cups sugar

1 teaspoon mixed spice

2 cups grated carrot

1 cup Best Foods Olive Oil Mayonnaise

2 eggs

1 x tin (234gms- about 1 cup) crushed pineapple in juice.

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

Pre-heat oven to 175degs. Combine flour, sugar, spice and carrot in a large bowl. In another bowl beat together mayonnaise, eggs, vanilla and stir in pineapple. Fold the two mixtures together lightly but thoroughly and spoon into paper cases. Bake for 15-20 minutes until puffed and golden.

Ice with cream cheese frosting: beat together 250 gms softened cream cheese, 3o gms soft butter and about 1-1 ½ cups icing sugar until smooth and fluffy and spoonable. Pipe or spoon on to cooled baby cakes and decorate with chopped dried apricots, pumpkin seeds, flaked almonds and sunflower seeds. Makes about 20 little cakes.

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