Mary’s Carrot Cake

Mary’s Carrot Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 cup almond flour
• ¾ cup xylitol
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon½ teaspoon salt
• 5/8 cup cooking oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup grated carrots
• ½ a 400 Gram can crushed pineapple – well drained
• ¼ cup roughly chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. Add all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix together.
2. Add eggs and oil. Mix well until a very thick consistency.
3. Stir in carrots, pineapple and nuts.
4. Bake in a greased and floured 8.5 inch spring form cake tin for approximately 1 hour at 180 degrees

Cream Cheese Icing:

Ingredients:

• 85 grams butter
• Half a teaspoon vanilla essence
• 5 grams cream cheese
• 70 grams icing sugar (half a cup)
• Squeeze of lemon

Directions:

1. Mix butter, cream cheese and vanilla till creamed.
2. Add icing sugar and mix thoroughly.
3. Add lemon to taste.
4. When cake is cold, cover completely with topping and pat all over with back of teaspoon to give peaked effect.
5. Decorate with walnuts.