This is the most nutritious-and-healthy-while-still-being-tasty Carrot cake ever!!
Ingredients
Wet
- 3 ripe bananas (I prefer cavendish)
- 2 carrots, grated
- 10 dates, finely chopped
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup sultanas
- Juice of one orange
Dry
- 1 cup almond meal
- 1/2 cup quinoa flakes or meal
- 1/2 cup oatmeal
- 2 tbs flaxmeal
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarb soda
- 1/3 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
Icing (optional)
- 250g light cream cheese
- 2-3 tbs maple syrup
Soak the sultanas in the orange juice for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees celcius.
In a large bowl combine all the dry ingredients except for the walnuts.
Drain the sultanas from the orange juice, and add them into a medium sized bowl with the remainder of the wet ingredients. Combine the wet ingredients and add them to the bowl of of ingredients. Finally, fold in the walnuts.
Lightly grease a cake tin and line the bottom of it with baking paper. Pour the batter in, and if you intend to ice it smooth the top over.
Place in the oven and bake for 45 minutes.
After you’re happy with the skewer test remove the cake from the tin and allow it to cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes if you intend to ice it.
For the icing mix the cream cheese together with the maple until it’s smooth, then layer it over the top of the cake.
I love this cake! It’s guilt free and you can substitute the oatmeal and quinoa flakes for any form of flour you have on hand, or for more almond meal if you want a gluten free or more paleo-friendly option.
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Peanut Butter Banana Coconut Oatmeal
Serves 1Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup dry rolled oats
- 1.25 cups water
- dash cinnamon
- dash sea salt
- 3/4 banana, split into 1/2 banana and 1/4 banana
- 1 tbs peanut butter
- 5 g shredded sweetened coconut
Directions:
Heat water on high in a small pot. Slice half a banana in small pieces and add to the water. Also add a dash of cinnamon and sea salt. Stir. When the mixture comes to a boil, lower to medium heat and add the oats. Stir well every couple of minutes until the oats have absorbed all the water and the banana has slightly dissolved. Pour into a bowl and top with 1/4 banana, sliced, 1 tbs peanut butter, and 5 g shredded coconut. I mix it all up, and enjoy!
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(via imgTumble)Seriously. I just need to go on a mini-rant about how freaking amazing Hilary Duff is. She just, everything that could possibly be right about her, is, I swear. She had one of THE best original Disney shows ever. I’m pretty sure Lizzie McGuire was my childhood. She put out CDs, the whole shebang. (You know you know every word to Why Not, and that you at one point owned the Metamorphosis CD, so don’t even lie.) And when she was a teenager, what was the worst thing she did? What, that little tiff with Lindsay Lohan? About Aaron Carter or whatever? You didn’t see her in sex scandals, and out partying and going out of control. Then she went on and did a bunch of movies that were freaking amazing, like A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen. She had a few weight issues along the way for like, half a day (or am I thinking of Lohan?), but freaking look at her now. She’s been married for freaking two years, and just had her first kid, not at 16, but at freaking 24. Now she’s into freakin’ animal rights, and protects the right of children and is all philanthropic and crap. This chick is such a bamf, is the one that teenage girls should look up to now, not some Snooki or whoever the crap else people are idolizing. Show some respect, bro. Show some respect. She’s not just a fitspiration, or a thinspiration, she is one of the biggest freaking inspirations of my generation.
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