However, once iced with cream cheese frosting, they should be stored in the fridge. You can freeze an un-iced carrot cake for up to 3 months, well-wrapped in clingfilm. Carrot cake is very forgiving.

And as for the placement of the icing, that was at my boyfriend’s request ― he likes the stuff both running through and sitting on top of his annual birthday carrot cake.

Muscavado sugar, which is moodier and funkier than the regular kind, produces a caramel flavour. The cake ... to the icing too). I always think flour company Odlum’s baking recipes are Ireland’s ...