Carrot Loaf Cake recipe | HotCooking

Ingredients

• 3 large room temperature eggs
• 175ml sunflower oil (plus more for greasing)
• 175g soft brown sugar (or golden caster sugar)
• 200g self-raising flour
• 75g sultanas
• 75g pecans or walnuts, roughly chopped
• zest from 1 large orange
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• heaped ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• pinch of salt
• 200g carrots, grated (roughly 2 large carrots)
• 1-1½ tsp orange juice
• 50g icing sugar, sifted
• 1 orange
• 1 tsp sugar
• ½ tsp water
• a 900g/2lb loaf tin