Carrot And Banana Cake

While both taste incredibly well separate, carrots and bananas can also be combined into a single dessert for a flavour that you never would have imagined. It's wholesome like a carrot cake, and light and moist like a banana cake. Give it a try and you'll know!

Yield: Serves 10
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 95 mins
Difficulty Level: 2/5

Ingredients

• 1¼ cup (185 g) plain, all-purpose flour
• ½ cup (75 g) self-raising flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup (220 g) firmly packed light brown sugar
• ¾ cup (80g) coarsely chopped walnuts
• 3 eggs, beaten lightly
• 2 cup coarsely grated carrot
• 1 cup mashed banana
• 1 cup (250 ml) vegetable oil
• 90 g cream cheese
• 90 g butter, softened
• 1 cup (160 g) icing sugar

Steps

01. Preheat oven to 160 C. Grease base and side of 24 cm round springform tin; line base with baking paper.

02. Sift flours, soda, spices and sugar into large bowl. Stir in walnuts, egg, carrot, banana and oil; pour mixture into tin. Bake about 1¼ hours. Cool cake in tin.

03. Make cream cheese frosting; beat cream cheese and butter in small bowl with electric mixer until as white as possible; gradually beat in icing sugar.

04. Top cold cake with frosting.

You will need about four medium carrots and two large overripe bananas. Use a light vegetable oil, such as canola. Photo: bauersyndication.com.au / Additional reporting: Cherrie Lim