Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

I post this to remind myself what I have changed from GR The Connaught's carrot cake. I had followed this recipe to the last word, the cake was too wet and looked greasy from the syrup, it was not very nice at all. I have since made it without the syrup it was much improved. I much prefer the flavour of butter than sunflower oil and find the mix a bit too dry. I have also made this into a