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Friday 3 August 2012

APRICOT AND CARROT CAKE



(This is a gluten free recipe if you use polenta and rice flour instead of ordinary flour)
Ingredients:
-125g carrots
-125g dried apricot
-90mls orange juice
-125g margarine
-240g flour or 150g polenta and 90g rice flour
-3 beaten eggs
-2tsp baking powder
-1/2tsp vanilla extract

Slice the carrots and boil until soft. It should weight 125g after cooking. Dice the dried apricot and simmer in the orange juice until soft. Allow it to cool.
Place the apricot, orange juice and carrots in a food processor and process until smooth. Add the margarine until melted.
Add the baking powder, vanilla extract, beaten eggs, flour and process until smooth, add a little water if needed.
Place in a greased cake pan. Bake in preheated 180 degrees oven for 35-40 minutes. Allow the cake to stand for few minutes then take it out of the pan and cool. Garnish it with aprocot or other dried fruit.

Enjoy :)