Name: Healthy Carrot Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 oz (50 g) chopped walnuts; ¼ pint (150 ml) milk; 2 teaspoons (2 X 5 ml spoon) bicarbonate of soda; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) baking powder; 4 oz (100 g) stoned dates, chopped; 8 oz (225 g) carrots, grated finely; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) ground cinnamon; 4 oz (100 g) raisins; 4 oz (100 g) butter; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) grated nutmeg; 8 fl oz (240 ml) honey; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) lemon juice; 4 oz (100 g) 100% wholemeal flour; 4 oz (100 g) strong white flour; 1 egg, beaten

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the USA

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1993

About

Health foods have taken America by storm and carrot cake is on the menu in health food bakeries and restaurants all over the States. Moist and fragrant, it makes a lovely tea cake that keeps well and is very quick to put together, because no creaming or beating is involved.