Moist Carrot Cake

Ingredients

1 and 1/2 cups flour

1 cup cooking butter

1 cup castor sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

3 medium carrots, grated

Handful of nuts (raisins, almonds finely chopped)

1/4 tsp salt

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease the base and sides of a cake tin with butter

In a bowl, whisk the eggs and add in butter, sugar and continue to beat till the mixture turns creamy.

Mix in the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and sift into the bowl. Stir in carrots and nuts, lightly mix all the ingredients

Pour the cake batter into the tin and bake for approximately 40- 45 minutes, until the skewer comes out clean from the middle

Cool the cake and slice into pieces before serving

Nutella Swirl Cake

Ingredients

1 and 1/2 cups flour

1 cup cooking butter

1 cup castor sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp salt

3 tbsp Nutella

Method

Preheat oven to 160 degrees.  Grease a cake or loaf tin with butter

In a bowl, whisk together eggs, butter and vanilla extract until soft and creamy. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, sugar and salt together

Combine the wet and dry batter together till the texture is smooth

Spread half the batter in the tin, add a spoon of Nutella on top and use a fork or a skewer to swirl the mixture to get a marble like effect

Top it with remaining batter along with Nutella and repeat the swirling

Place the tin in the oven for approximately 50-60 minutes, until tested with a skewer

Allow the cake to cool before slicing and servicing