Chai coconut carrot cake recipe

Ingredients

• zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lemon
• 75g raisins
• 125g desiccated coconut
• 200g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 3 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1½ tsp ground ginger
• 1⁄4 tsp ground cloves seeds from 8 cardamom pods, crushed to a powder
• 1⁄4 whole nutmeg (about ½ tsp)
• 175g light brown sugar
• 175ml sunflower oil
• 3 medium eggs
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 2 carrots, coarsely grated
• 1 apple, coarsely grated, core discarded
• 75g walnuts, chopped
• 100g very soft unsalted butter
• 1 x 280g pack full-fat soft cheese (we used Philadelphia)
• 150g icing sugar, sifted
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• a small pinch of ground cloves
• a small pinch of ginger
• a small pinch of freshly grated nutmeg