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Roast citrus-salted salmon and lemons served with baked potato in cream

1 1/4 hours

Sweet potato and date cake with cream cheese topping

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 1 hour

Ingredients

180 ml brown sugar
250 ml sunflower oil
1 t grated orange rind
2 free-range eggs
120 g dates, chopped
100 g coconut
140 g mashed sweet potato
240 g self-raising flour, sifted
125 ml soya milk

For the topping

2 tubs cream cheese
5 ml lemon zest

Method

Preheat the oven to 180ºC.

Grease a 20cm pan. Beat the sugar, oil and orange rind until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs then stir in the dates, coconut and sweet potato. Stir in the flour and milk.

Pour into the pan and spread evenly. Bake for 1 hour.

Leave to cool for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack. Cool.

Mix the cream cheese and lemon zest and spread over the top of the cake.
TASTE’s take:

This moist cake is really easy to make – and no-one will even notice the veggies! If you leave out the topping, the cake is lactose free.

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