Carrot Cake

I love my carrot cake, it is one of my favorite cakes! I never bake them much because I've always found they use far too many ingredients which I dislike, but this one by http://www.petite-kitchen.com/ is so simple and easy and it looks great! This carrot cake is also gluten free, Carrot cake is a great cake to make for autumn, just a tip.

Ingredients:

2 cups ground almonds

1/2 cup grated carrot (I just used 1 carrot)

1/2 cup shredded coconut 

4 tbsp butter (or coconut oil)

4 tbsp honey

4 eggs

2 tsp cinnamon 

2 tsp ground cloves 

2 tsp nutmeg 

1 tsp baking soda

Any other nuts or dried fruit 

Method:

*preheat oven to 160 degrees* 

Place all ingredients into blender and mix until a smooth batter is formed

Pour into tin and bake for 20 minutes 

Icing (just my basic cream cheese) :

60 grams cream cheese (softened)

30 grams butter (softened)

3/4 cup icing sugar 

sprinkle of cinnamon 

Walnuts (to place on top)

Method:

Place all ingredients into a bowl and beat with a hand held mixer

Spread over cooled cake 

 Sprinkle over walnuts 

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