Banana and Carrot Cake

Hello beautifuls,

To start off this week I have a new recipe for you.  It's a combination of two of my favourites, banana cake and carrot cake.  This recipe also doesn't use oil like most traditional carrot cake recipes.  So if you are in the same boat as me and can't have oil, this will be perfect.

Ingredients ~

• 2 Cups self raising flour
• 2 1/2 Tsp baking powder
• 3/4 Tsp fine grain sea salt (I used a mortar and pestle and give the salt a finer texture)  
• 50g Butter
• 2 Lightly beaten eggs
• 1 1/2 Tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/4 Cups 3 mashed bananas
• 3/4 Cup finely chopped walnuts (I just used a food processor/blender to achieve this faster)
• 1 1/2 Cups grated carrot
• 1/2 Cup Greek Yoghurt

Icing ~

• 300g Philadelphia/Cream Cheese
• 5 Tsb Maple Syrup 

Method~

1. Preheat oven to 160 °C 
2. Line a square 20 x 20cm tray with baking paper. (I also sprayed this for good measure)
3. Mix together bananas and carrots. 
4. Mix in the butter, yogurt and eggs to this mixture.
5. In a separate bowl sift in the baking powder, self raising flour, cinnamon and sea salt.
6. Add in the walnuts to this mixture.
7. Add this mixture into the first bowl and combine.  
8. Pour mixture into baking tin and bake for 35 mins.

Icing ~

1. Add Philadelphia cheese and maple syrup into a bowl and beat until smooth.
2. More maple syrup can be added if needed.
3. Leave the cake to cool first before adding the icing to the cake.

Hope you all have a fabulous week.

Rach xx

This recipe is an altered recipe from here