Nigella Lawson served up a delicious carrot cake with crystallised ginger, walnuts and cream cheese icing on Nigella: At My Table.

The ingredients are: 200g plain flour, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda, 2 tsp ground ginger, ¼ tsp fine sea salt, 175g soft light brown sugar, 2 large free-range eggs, at room temperature, 200ml vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing, 200g carrots, peeled and coarsely grated, 100g walnut pieces, roughly chopped, plus extra for decorating and 75g crystallised ginger, finely chopped, plus extra for decorating.

For the icing: 100g unsalted butter, softened, 100g icing sugar, sieved if lumpy, 1 tsp cornflour, 100g cream cheese and 1 tbsp coarsely grated fresh ginger.

See the recipe in Nigella’s new book titled: At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking, available from Amazon now.