Swede Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 cups self raising flour
• 2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 200g grated swede
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup cooking oil cup raisins or sultanas
• 1 cup crushed pineapple with juice

Directions: 

• Beat the eggs, oil and sour cream together in a bowl. In a separate bowl mix the sifted flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar and mix well. In another bowl mix the grated swede, sultanas or raisins, walnuts and the crushed pineapple.
• Add the dry ingredients to the eggs, oil and sour cream and mix thoroughly.
• Add the pineapple, grated swede, sultanas or raisins and walnuts. Pour into a 20cm greased and lined cake tin and bake in a pre-heated oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 1 hour 5 minutes or until cooked.
• Top with cream cheese icing.

Cream Cheese Icing ingredients

• 250 gm original cream cheese
• 50 gm butter
• 3 cups icing sugar
• 1 tsp orange juice

Directions: 

• Slightly soften the cream cheese and place in a mixing bowl and beat in the softened butter.
• Gradually add the icing sugar and then the orange juice.
• Spread on the cake.

Note: Any extra can be kept in the fridge and used at a later date.

Original recipe by Graham Hawkes - Stuff