Here are a few recipes that we use around the Alishan Cafe.

Carrot Cake
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

A.
Sift and combine
400g w/w pastry flour
2Tbs cinnamon
1.5tsp nutmeg
1Tbs baking powder

B.
200g palm oil, butter or margarine
250 to 280g sweetener in some combination (agave, maple, honey, turbinado sugar, date sugar, etc.). Jack uses 180g honey + 100g brown sugar.
400g shredded carrot
100g flaked coconut
250g steamed raising
1Tbs orange peel

Melt butter or oil and add remainder of B. Then mix in A.
Bake for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 165 degrees C and bake for an additional 45 (or so, depending on your oven).