| My BEST Carrot Cake Recipe - Ever!
You know those moments when you think yourself a genius? Well, it doesn’t happen often for me, but today I had one of those moments. I experimented with a new carrot cake recipe and the results made all who ate it squirm with pleasure! Even my husband said it was the best cake he’d ever eaten (and he’s eaten a lot).
The great thing is, the recipe is dairy-free, does not contain any hydrogenated or trans fats and is substantially lower in fat than the average cake. However, two drawbacks are: because it’s made with coconut oil, it does contain saturated fat (I think about 4g per slice - recommended daily intake for adults is between 20-30g per day) and it does require a bit of faffing about in the kitchen. It took me about 20 minutes to prepare and 25 minutes to cook (and about 10 minutes to wash-up as I don’t have a dishwasher). But it’s worth it.
Ingredients
- 250g organic self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 50g coconut oil
- 250g sugar (I use organic unrefined)
- 2 teaspoons apricot extra jam
- 4 eggs
- 10ml vanilla extract
- 2 large carrots
Method
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees (might need slightly higher for non-fan oven)
- Peel the carrots. Chop one of them and put in small saucepan with some water and bring to boil. Let simmer for about 15 minutes whilst you do rest of preparation
- Grate other carrot and put aside
- Blend the eggs and coconut oil together. Add sugar, cinnamon, jam and vanilla extract and blend some more.
- When carrot has simmered for approx 15 minutes, add to blended mixture and blend some more until quite smooth
- Put blended mixture in a large bowl and fold in flour
- Add grated carrot to mixture
- Pour mixture into a prepared cake tin (about 10″ diameter. I do usually find that using unbleached baking paper gives a better result and ensures that no chemicals have leached from tins
- Bake for about 25 minutes until a knife comes out of cake clean if stabbed into it all the way to bottom of tin
- Let cool in tin for about 10 minutes
- Turn out onto wire rack - and try to resist cutting a slice immediately x
This post was submitted by Susannah.
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