Birthing By Heart

Your baby’s first moments in life, are worth celebrating - and what better way, than with a delicious, first birthday cake, shared between you and your birth support team.

My favourite alltime cake is carrot cake - and here is a beautiful, yummy recipe

Carrot Cake

Ingredients

Olive oil, to grease

3 carrots grated (should work out to be approx 1 cup)

1 1/2 cups of Plain Flour (All purpose flour)

3 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp allspice

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 cup (80g) brown sugar

3/4 cup (185ml) extra virgin olive oil

1/2 cup (125ml) golden syrup

3 free range eggs

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C
2. Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl
3. Beat the eggs, oil brown sugar, vanilla and golden syrup in a bowl
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients, and add the grated carrots -mix until just combined.
5. Turn into a greased 20cm cake tin, and bake for 50 minutes. The cake is done when a skewer inserted comes out clean, and it springs back lightly to a touch.

Ice with cream cheese icing and enjoy!