Carrot Cake

I've not had much success doing carrot cake either. So I'll try another box...just as a baseline; while I work on my own recipe.

Ingredients that seem to have worked (27 minutes @ 180C):

• Sugar
• Flour
  
• vegetable oil
• Carrots (dried) (5% by total weight)
• dextrose (a.k.a. sugars)
• modified starch (tapioca & cornstarch)
• raising agents
  
• sodium bicarbonate
• monocalcium phosphate
  
• sodium acid phosphate
• corn starch
  
• emulsifiers:
  
• E477, Propane-1, 2-diol esters of fatty acids, propylene glycol esters of fatty acids
  
• E471, Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (glyceryl monostearate, glyceryl distearate)
  
• salt
• spices
• color: E150d
  
• stabiliser: E466
• flavorings
  
  
• plus
• 3 eggs (medium)
  
• 200 ml water
• 70 ml vegetable oil

Into 2x 20cm (8") round cake rings (pans)

Turned into this:


Not bad at all; although the frosting's not what I need it to be. I made lemon instead of orange like I wanted ('cause I had lemons but not oranges in the fridge). And the frosting needs a little highlight/color or something; it's too damn plain white.