Christmas Carrot Cake - Stir it up Magazine

Ingredients

• g Country Range Butter
• g light brown Muscavado sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 whole oranges, finely blitzes in a food processor and passed through a sieve (save a little aside for the icing)
• g Country Range Self Raising Flour
• 2 tsp Country Range Bicarbonate of Soda
• 2 tsp Country Range Ground Cinnamon
• 0.5 tsp Country Range Ground Nutmeg
• 2 tsp Country Range Ground Ginger
• 1 tsp Country Range Ground Cloves
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 11 oz grated carrots
• g Country Range Chopped Dates
• g Country Range Sultanas
• g Country Range Chopped Pecan Nuts
• 1 tsp orange oil
• 1 orange (juice of)
• 2 oz granulated sugar
• g icing sugar
• 4 tblsp double cream
• 1 orange, blitzed
• pecan nuts, to decorate