Desserts & Baking
Carrot cakes with honey glaze
Makes 6 small cakes
Easy
20 minutes
20 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Woolworths Kliene Zalze Sauvignon Blanc 2016
Ingredients
Method- 2 large carrots, peeled and grated
- 1 free-range egg
- 60 g butter, melted
- 150 g light brown sugar
- ½ t fresh ginger, finely grated
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 140 g flour
- 1 t baking powder
- 1 t ground cinnamon
- 1 t ground ginger
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup honey
- 50 g pumpkin seeds, roasted
Method
Ingredients- Preheat the oven to 175°C. Mix the carrots, egg, butter, sugar, ginger and vanilla extract with an electric beater until pale and fluffy.
- Combine the dry ingredients, then fold into the carrot mixture.
- Grease a shallow muffin pan. Spoon the mixture into the pan and bake 15–20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Place the water and honey in saucepan and simmer over a low heat until syrupy. Pour over the hot cakes and sprinkle with the pumpkin seeds.
Such an easy and healthy recipe, thank you so much! We put 75g of sugar instead of 150g and it was amazingly tasty and sweet!