Ingredients
For the cake:
450ml/14fl oz vegetable oil
400g/14oz plain flour
2 tsp bicarbonate soda
570g/1lb 4oz sugar
290g/10oz eggs
pinch of salt
12g/½oz cinnamon ground
530g/1lb 3oz carrots, peeled and grated
150g/5oz walnuts, chopped
For the topping:
200g/7oz cream cheese
150g/5oz sugar
100g/3½oz butter
For the white chocolate ice cream:
1 litre/1¾ pints milk
150ml/5fl oz sugar
10 egg yolks
400g/14oz white chocolate, melted on a bain-marie
55g/2oz milk powder
200ml/7fl oz double cream
Method
1. Mix all the cake ingredients in a food processor for 5 minutes. Pour into a cake tin 26cm/10½in diameter and bake at 160C/325F/Gas 3 for 45 minutes.
2. Check to see if the cake is cooked, then remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes in the tin before removing and placing it on a cooling rack.
3. For the topping, place the cream cheese, sugar and butter into a mixing bowl and cream together until smooth and soft. Spread over the cake using a palette knife.
4. For the ice cream, cream together the egg yolks and the sugar until white and stiff.
5. In a saucepan combine the milk, milk powder and cream and bring to the boil. Pour some of the milk onto the creamed eggs and sugar, whisking continuously.
6. Return the mixture to the saucepan and over a medium heat cook out to 80C/175F. Pass through a sieve and then pour in the melted white chocolate. Turn in an ice cream machine. Remove and place into the freezer.
7. Serve each portion of cake with a scoop of the white chocolate ice cream.
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