carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

it was my birthday a week ago planned to sew a birthday dress like i did for all the past birthdays that happened in my sewing life but i failed .. i'm away from my sewing machines for over a month now spending time with nikola, at his home up in the mountains and, although i have a sewing machine here i lack so many silly little sewing things that i had to stop my work on birthday dress before i ruin that gorgeous fabric .. it's cold and snowing outside nikola is snowboarding
and that's not my thing, at all i like snowy white frosting better than real snow and baking is my idea of fun
so i give you cake!
and i'll show you the dress when it's done
(i believe it might be my favorite one ever)

recipe is adapted from this blog post on sophisticated gourmet
for the cake: 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon fine grain salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon finely grated zest of one orange 1 1/2 cups grated carrots 3/4 cup walnuts (crushed) 1/4 cup sunflower oil 1 cup caster sugar 1/4 cup yogurt 2 large eggs .. for the frosting: 300 gr (10.5 oz) cream cheese 1 cup powdered sugar 3 tablespoons butter (at room temperature) 1 teaspoon vanilla .. preheat oven to 180 C (375 F) butter 20cm (8 inch) round cake pan .. in a large bowl mix flour, baking soda and powder, salt, cinnamon add orange zest, grated carrots and walnuts, mix to combine .. in medium bowl mix sugar and oil add yogurt, mix well, add eggs .. add egg mixture to flour mixture gently mix with rubber spatula, until just incorporated transfer to cake pan and bake until top is firm, and toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes .. cool the cake completely meanwhile, make the frosting: combine the powdered sugar, cream cheese, vanilla and butter in a bowl beat with an electric mixer, for few minutes, until smooth (you may need to add more powdered sugar to get the right consistency) .. cut a cake in half horizontally frost both halves, and stack one on top of the other (and if you're a bit more patient with all that frosting business than i am your cake is going to be much more photogenic one) .. mokosha