These cakes are very tasty and contain healthy ingredients like butter, eggs, carrots, coconut flour and raisins and no refined grains or sugars. They are wheat and gluten free and contain coconut flour but if you don't like coconut don't worry - they don't taste of coconut at all!
Ingredients (makes 6
loaf cakes or 8 muffins)
·
50g
butter, melted
·
3
tbsp coconut milk
·
3
medium free range eggs beaten
·
3
tbsp honey (raw is best)
·
Zest
of one large orange
·
1
tsp ground cinnamon
·
½
tsp nutmeg (freshly grated for best flavour)
·
35g
coconut flour
·
Pinch
Salt
·
1
tsp gluten free baking powder
·
2
medium carrots, grated
·
50g
raisins (optional)
Pre-heat the oven to
180 degrees centigrade (adjust accordingly for fan oven)
Blend together the butter,
coconut milk, eggs, honey and orange zest
Combine together the
coconut flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and baking powder
Mix the dry
ingredients into the wet ingredients until there are no lumps
Add the grated carrot
and raisins and mix in well
Bake for 15 minutes
on the middle shelf
