Cooking a Healthy Carrot Cake
This is one of our family favorites - both adults and kids love a slice of tasty carrot cake !
You'll discover that this recipe doesn't have the traditional icing topping - simply because the cake itself is so full of flavour, it doesn't need anything to enhance it.
Unbelievably it tastes even better the day after you make it - but I doubt you'll have any left by then!
Ingredients
- 150g grated carrots
- 2 medium eggs
- 100g brown sugar
- 4tbsp olive oil
- 100g wholemeal self raising flour
- 50g dessicated coconut
- 50g raisins or sultanas
- Grease a square or round cake tin.
- Heat the oven to 190C, Gas Mark 5
- Mix the eggs and sugar with a whisk until they thicken
- Add the oil, then the grated carrots, flour, coconut and raisins.
- Stir together.
- Pour into tin
- Cook for 20 - 25 minutes, until golden on top
Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool on a tray. This is on recipe that will have eager kids hands wanting a small slice just as soon as it's ready.
This is one cake that tastes better the longer you keep it - certainly the flavour develops in the first 24 hours - see if you can keep it that long!
Variations
Try replacing the sugar with diet sugar replacements, start with 50% to see how the cake turns out in your oven.
Use other health giving oils, such as flaxseed oil, or add a teaspoon of cold milled flaxseed to give a boost with omega 3.
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