Captivating Carrot Cake
The lovely Ellie from Kind State of Mind came into our kitchen & helped us make this mega carrot cake. It was really, REALLY tasty.
Serves
Ingredients
For the cake
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For the icing
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For decorating
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Before you start
Preheat oven to 180°C l 20 cm greased cake tin l Hand blender l Food processor
Make the cake mixture
- Form a flaxseed paste binder, as an egg alternative, by adding 6 tbsp of warm water to 2 tbsp of ground flaxseed, and mix it together until you have a paste
- Put all the cake ingredients (apart from the sultanas & crated carrot) into a food processor & whizz them up into a paste
- Pour the paste into a bowl, add the sultanas & carrot & mix it all together with a wooden spoon
Bake the cake
- Pour the mixture into a cake tin
- Bake for 30-35 minutes, and a skewer comes out clean
Meanwhile, make the icing
- Pour the icing ingredients into a bowl & mix it together until it turns into a thick cream
- Use an electric hand blender to finish off the icing
Finish and serve
- Take the cake out of the oven & let it rest until it's completely cool (the cake needs to be cool in order to ice it properly)
- Ice the cake
- Decorate the cake with walnuts & lemon zest