So I love carrot cake but have never made it before (side note M&S do a yummy GF one) and thought I'd give it a go.
The result:
But just thought I'd make a new blog post to let you know how easy it was to make.
When looking up recipes I found so many that needed loads of ingredients but the one I eventually chose (thank you BBC good food!) needed only carrots, soft brown sugar, self-raising flour (obviously use GF s-r flour here), bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, 1 orange, eggs and sunflower oil. So all of these ingredients are pretty standard store cupboard essentials, I had to buy the cinnamon but at 49p it didn't feel too excessive!
My only adaptation of the recipe was with the icing; as you can see, Mary Berry's recipe stated needing 250g full-fat cream cheese, for this I actually used a 200g pack of soft cheese (FYI this is the same as cream cheese, maybe it's just me who hadn't realised this!). I used 50g less cream cheese to avoid buying another pack as I would not eat it other than in the frosting, but also to avoid the icing tasting 'too cheesy', to aid this I also added another 25g ish of icing sugar.
So there you have it, pretty easy GF carrot cake, I like the taste of mine, its a little dry but is fluffy and made more moist by the icing. My non-GF housemates have all enjoyed it too and it has certainly gone down pretty quickly since I made it 2 days ago!
:) xx
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