Healthy Cooking for your Kids: Party Carrot Cake

     Having a party and can't think of good-enough snacks? Here's a totally cute picture, and recipe of course, of Party Carrot cake!

 

Party Carrot Cake

Ingredients:

unsalted butter for greasing

125g light brown self raising flour

2 teaspoon baking powder

pinch of sea salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

 125g demerara sugar

50g shelled walnuts, chopped

2 ripe bananas, peeled and mashed

100g carrots, peeled and finely grated

150 ml light sunflower oil

2 eggs beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

cream cheese (optional)

3 ready-to-eatdreid apricots

green confectionery snake / green licorice

How to Bake

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and line a 8-inch round cookie tin. Mix the flours, baking powder, salt and spices together in a large bowl and stir in the sugar and walnuts. Add the bananas and carrots and mix well. In a separate bowl mix the oil, eggs and vanilla extract together. Pour into the flour mixture and mix well to combine. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and level the surface. Bake in a preheated oven for one hour, test to see if its cooked by inserting a skewer into the center. If it comes out clean, the cake is done. If not, bake for another 10 minutes and test again. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Turn the cake out onto a serving plate and top with cream cheese. To make mini "carrots" for decoration, cut each apricot in half horizontally and cut the snake into twelve 1&1/4-inch lengths. Use two pieces to form a "stem" and roll an apricot half around it to form a mini carrot. Repeat until you have 6 "carrots", then use to decorate a cake.

     Just a reminder all of these recipes are from Healthy Cooking for Your Kids, an awesome cook book for kids. Look for more here!