Carrot Cake with Ricotta Cheese Frosting
Contributed By
Amanda Ford
Serves
1 cake
Time
1.5-2 hours
A delicious & moist carrot cake with a light frosting using Ricotta Cheese!
Method
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius. Grease and line a cake tin.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda and spices into a bowl. Add almond meal, sugar, carrot, egg yolks and half the walnuts. Mix well.
- Using an electric mixer or whisk beat egg whites to form stiff peaks. Fold into carrot mixture. Pour into pan. Bake for 45-55 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Make the frosting by beating the ricotta, lemon juice and agave syrup until combined. Stir through the coconut and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Once cake is cooled, spread the icing over. Sprinkle with remaining walnuts and pomegranate seeds and serve!
* Gluten Free option Replace spelt flour with half rice flour, half buckwheat flour or any other gluten free flour option.
Ingredients
2/3 cup organic spelt flour
2 teaspoons gluten-free baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 cups almond meal
1 cup rapadura sugar
2 carrots, peeled, grated
4 eggs, separated
2/3 cup walnuts, chopped
200g ricotta cheese
Juice from 1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons agave syrup
2 tablespoons coconut desiccated (optional)
seeds from 1/2 a pomegranate to serve (optional)
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