3 of Your 5-a-Day Cake

This cake helped me get some of my much-needed fruit and vegetables in my 'week of cake'!

3 of Your 5-a-Day Cake

Ingredients:

10oz self-raising flour

½oz ground almonds

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

5 tbsp sunflower oil

4 tbsp orange juice

1 egg

2oz light brown sugar

2oz molasses sugar

150g carrot, grated

1 eating apple, peeled, cored and grated

1 orange, zest grated

3oz raisins

2oz mixed seeds

Method:

 1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4 and grease a 23cm-round cake tin.

2. Mix the self-raising flour, ground almonds, salt, baking powder and cinnamon in a large bowl.
3. In a separate bowl mix the sunflower oil, orange juice, egg, light brown sugar and molasses sugar, (if you don't have molasses sugar replace with more brown sugar).

3. Add the wet orange mixture to the flour along with the grated carrot, apple, orange zest, raisins and mixed seeds. Stir until really well mixed and spoon into the prepared tin.

4. Bake for 50 minutes until the cake pulls away from the side. Cool in the tin before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely

Adapted from “Carrot, Apple and Raisin Cake” in 101 Cakes and Bakes