Passion Cakes

.... well carrot cakes actually!

Ingredients for Cakes...

Makes 6

75ml sunflower oil
75g sugar
1 egg
30ml milk
½-1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring
50g walnut pieces
120g carrots
100g self raising flour
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Ingredients for Frosting...

30g low fat soft cheese
30g low fat spread
60g icing sugar or sweetener to taste
few drops of vanilla essence
walnut halves or mini "carrots" made from icing sugar

This is what you do...

Put 6 muffin cases in a muffin or bun tray.

Place oil, sugar, egg and vanilla in a bowl, beat well.

Roughly chop walnut pieces, scrape or peel carrots and grate coarsely.

Add these ingredients to the bowl with the flour, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.

Mix well.

Spoon the mixture into muffin cases. Bake for approximately 25 minutes at 180 ºC / 350 ºF / Gas Mark 4.

Cool on a wire rack.

Mix the first 4 frosting ingredients together and beat until smooth. Spread over the cool cakes and decorate with walnut halves or "carrots".