Carrot Cake

This is the all time best carrot cake, its a Jamie Oliver recipe, it has quite a long list of ingredients, but trust me, it's worth it!

250g Margarine

250g Brown sugar

5 eggs separated

Zest and juice of 1 orange

175g self raising flour

1tsp baking powder

100g ground almonds

100g walnuts

1tsp cinnamon

Pinch nutmeg

1/2 tsp ginger

250g carrots grated

100g mascapone
200g full-fat soft cheese
85g icing sugar
1 lime (zest and juice)

Beat sugar and margarine until fluffy, add egg yolks, orange juice, then add flour, baking powder then almonds, walnuts and spices then add carrots and orange zest.
In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites until stiff then fold into other mixture.

Bake in a lined 9" square tin at 170 c for 50mins.

Once the cake is cool, beat all the icing ingredients together and spread generously over the cake and sprinkle with walnuts.