I had a very ripe mango left in my fruit bowl together with some apples and wondered what I could do to use them up. So I opted for a cake (like I need an excuse!) and adapting a carrot cake recipe I often use I switched some ingredients and made this
And this is how I did it:
INGREDIENTS:
50g sultanas or raisins
150ml sunflower oil , plus extra for greasing
2 eggs
140g soft light brown sugar
170g self-raising flour
2 tsp each ground cinnamon and ground mixed spice
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1eating apple, coarsely grated
1 ripe mango, roughly chopped
50g walnuts roughly chopped – this is optional (I excluded them when I am making it for Burton aswell)
METHOD:
*Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and grease and line the base and sides of a 2lb loaf tin.
*Whisk together the oil and eggs.
*Mix together the sugar, flours, mixed spice, cinnamon and bicarb in your largest mixing bowl.
*Add the sultanas/raisins, grated apples, mango walnuts (if using) and whisked egg mixture into the dry ingredients, then thoroughly mix with a wooden spoon.
*Tip into the loaf tin and bake on the middle shelf for 1 hr, or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
*Once cool, remove from the tin.
Mmmm it tastes good too 🙂
Have a go – its very yummy and must contain something towards our 5 a day 🙂
Thank you xx
ooh that sounds really lovely! Will give that recipe a shot, trying to find any way of cramming more fruit into my 3 year old, hidden in a cake could work! 🙂
Yum, that sounds absolutely delicious, will definitely be giving it a go soon. Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier this week and for taking the time to leave a comment. Have enjoyed reading through your posts – Caroline x