Kitty's carrot and orange cake

Lots of people like carrot cake, and lots of people make it as a frighteningly sweet concoction. Kit came up with a beautiful recipe that didn't give you that sweet sickly cinnamon hit, but was a great textured cake with a hum of orange. This is my kind of cake.

You don't have to use the chocolate glaze, but it's worth knowing that it is fantastic. And I don't even particularly like chocolate. It was a shock.

25cm cake tin, liner
set oven to 180

Ingredients

Cake
3 large carrots, grated
1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 cups brown sugar
2.25 cups self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
Zest of 1 orange
2 big squeezes from half an orange

Glaze
1/3 cup whipping cream
2/3 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla

CAKE - method
combine and stir all the wet ingredients with the sugar until combined: oil, eggs, vanilla, orange zest, squeeze of OJ, sugar
stir in the grated carrot
stir in the dry ingredients: sugar, sr flour, baking powder, until combined

pour mixture into lined 25cm baking tin

cook in medium oven 180 for 45-60 minutes

GLAZE - method
put all the ingredients in a pan
bring to a boil over a medium flame/heat
stir and simmer until thick
set aside to cool, pour over cool cake