Tasty carrot cake recipe that’s sugar-free takes less than 30 minutes to prep

Many sweet treat are loaded with sugar, so it’s hard to find one that isn’t.

With the Easter period mere weeks away, delicious desserts full of sugar will be evermore tempting.

To get your sweet fix without the guilt, expert Justine Pattison has shared a for a sugar-free carrot cake topped with orange cream cheese icing with the .

She described it as a “sugar-free take on the traditional carrot cake topped with a zingy orange cream cheese frosting for a tasty treat”.

Providing 12 portions, this takes less than 30 minutes to prepare and around 35 minutes to .

Ingredients 

For the cake

150g self-raising flour

100g ground almonds

50g raisins

50g walnut halves, roughly broken

Four teaspoons ground mixed spice

One teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Three eggs

100ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing

Three tablespoons semi-skimmed milk

300g carrots, coarsely chopped

For the icing

150g full-fat cream cheese

One medium orange, finely grated zest only

Method

Start by preheating the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Grease and line the base of a 20cm springform cake tin with grease-proof paper.

Next, add the flour, almonds, raisins, walnuts, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda in a large bowl and mix thoroughly, before making a well in the centre.

In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, oil and milk together and stir in the grated carrot. Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients, stirring to form a thick batter.

Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and spread to the sides. Bake in the centre of the oven for 35 minutes, or until the cake is well risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. After, leave to cool in the tin.

Once cooled, take the cake out of the tin and peel off the lining paper. Put the cake on a board or plate.

The next step is to make the icing. To do so, stir the cheese and orange zest together. Spread evenly over the cake.

This cake will keep in the fridge without the frosting for three days. Just spread the frosting over the cake before serving.