Favorite Recipe for Holidays Date,carrot And Walnut cake: Practical and Quick

Ingredients for Date,carrot And Walnut cake:

1. 🌻For the Cake:
2. 1 English breakfast tea bag
3. 1 cup (165 g) Pitted Medjool Dates, finely chopped, plus extra to decorate
4. 1/3 cup (75 ml) sunflower oil
5. 3 eggs, beaten
6. 1 & 1/4 cup plain flour
7. 1 & 1/2 tsp baking powder
8. 1 & 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
9. 250 g carrots, peeled
10. 1 & 1/2 tsp mixed spice(2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg)
11. 75 g light brown soft sugar
12. 30 g walnuts, chopped
13. 🌻For the frosting:
14. 200 g cream cheese or dairy free alternative
15. 2 Tbsp honey or maple syrup or icing sugar
16. Juice of half a lemon
17. Some chopped Walnuts, dates and carrots

Cooking Instructions for making Date,carrot And Walnut cake:

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Preheat the oven to 180˚C, gas mark 4. Grease and line a 900g loaf tin. Brew black tea, pour into a bowl with the dates and leave to soak for 20 minutes.

Lift out 1/2 the dates with a spoon and set aside.

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Coarsely grate the carrots, then stir into the bowl with the mixed spice, sugar and a pinch of salt.

4

Add the date mixture, the reserved soaked dates and the walnuts. Stir until combined then spoon into the cake tin. Bake for 50 minutes-1 hour, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.


Meanwhile, for the icing,

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Beat together the cream cheese, honey or maple syrup and lemon juice. Spread the frosting over the top of the cake and decorate with carrot, chopped dates and walnuts if desired.

Enjoy!

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