Charlie’s Rosella Cake

Name: Charlie’s Rosella Cake
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 225 g (1½ cups) wholemeal organic plain flour; 100 g pecans, toasted and coarsely chopped; 600 g carrots, finely grated; 80 g raisins; ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 2 tablespoons finely sliced glacé ginger; 350 g (1 cup) honey, warmed; finely grated zest of 1 orange; 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda; ¼ cup light olive oil; 90 g (¼ cup) honey; 250 g (1 cup) cream cheese; ½ cup unsweetened crushed canned pineapple; 1 large cup fresh rosella flakes; 150 g (1 cup) unbleached organic plain flour; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; juice of 1 large orange, strained

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook

By Liz Harfull

Published 2014

About

Memories of walks collecting bush tucker with his mum were the inspiration behind Charlie King’s prize-winning effort in the inaugural Celebrity Baking Challenge at the Royal Darwin Show.

Ruby King was a Gurindji woman from Kalkaringi, on the edge of what was once part of Wave Hill station, about 600 kilometres south of Darwin. She learnt to cook western-style food after being taken from her family at about the age of 9 and placed in a home. But

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Oceania
Australia
Cake
Vegetarian

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