No Carrot Carrot Cake

This recipe delivers on carroty-goodness without having to grate a single carrot!

 

Ingredients

Dry

2 cups flour

½ cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

½ cup chopped walnuts

½ tsp salt

Wet

1 cup apricots (soaked in water)

1 cup Benefit Enrich Carrot Juice

¼ cup olive oil

For the icing

2 tbsp vegan creme fraiche or cream ‘cheese’

2 tbsp icing sugar 

1 tsp cinnamon 

Squeeze fresh lemon juice

Method

Preheat the oven to 180ºC

Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl 

Add the apricots, Benefit Enrich Carrot Juice and olive oil to a food processor and blitz until combined 

Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix together with a wooden spoon, careful not to overwork it 

Add to a lined baking loaf tin and bake for 50 minutes, or until you can stick a knife in and it comes out clean

For the icing, simply mix all of the ingredients together and pour over the cake once cooled

Enjoy!