Vegan Carrot Cake Slice

[mcmich]

Vegan Carrot Cake Slice

Ingredients

200gm carrot peeled
290gm water
170gm pitted dates (I cut mine in half to ensure no seeds)
125gm raisins/sultanas
1tsp cinnamon
1tsp ground ginger
1/2tsp nutmeg
100gm orange juice
240gm whole wheat flour
1 1/2tsp baking powder
1 1/2tsp baking soda

Method

* Place peeled and roughly chopped carrots in   and grate for 10-15 seconds, sp 7. Put aside.
* Add water, dates, sultanas/raisins, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg to  . Temp 110, sp 0.5 for 3 mins or until it comes to the boil.
* Lower the Temp to 45 and gently simmer for 5 mins on sp 0.5.
* Add grated carrot to date mixture and allow to cool completely.
* When mixture is cool add orange juice and mix together, sp 5 for 5-8 secs.
* Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together,  , sp 5 for 25 secs.
* Pour mixture into a tin lined with baking paper. (I used a square 20cm x 20cm tin)
* Bake in a pre heated oven - 180 for 30 mins.

Converted from Lifestyle Medicine Institute Cookbook.

[achookwoman]

Michele,  looks and sounds good. Will make when I get home. Thanks.

[mcmich]

Thanks Chookie, would be lovely as a dessert with some custard as it is fairly dense. Unfortunately it then stops being vegan - will look forward to having it with custard when off the study. 
DH had it with custard and is very happy.   

[cookie1]

It looks nice Mich.

[Cornish Cream]

It looks delicious Michele.

[naturalmumma]

Thanks Chookie, would be lovely as a dessert with some custard as it is fairly dense. Unfortunately it then stops being vegan - will look forward to having it with custard when off the study. 
DH had it with custard and is very happy.   

You could make a custard using almond, soy or coconut milk if you wanted vegan.

I will make this today & Quirky Cooking coconut caramel custard there is a vegan version use cornflour in place of eggs

[mcmich]

Thanks NM. I have a recipe for custard using egg replacer but I would rather take my chances with a free range egg than egg replacer any day.
Will look up Quirky Jo's site - Flax seed or chia seed with water can be used instead of eggs too.

[Cornish Cream]

There is a vegan custard recipe posted by ILB here Michele.

[mcmich]

Thanks CC.