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Our Healthy Carrot Cake Recipe<\/h2>\n

Carrot Cake has a vegetable\u00a0in its name so\u00a0it must be healthy, right? Sadly, cafes and shops often go low on the carrots but high on the butter and refined sugar, leaving you\u00a0with a spiced sponge that contains\u00a0only a couple of shavings of the promised carrot. In response to this, here we are\u00a0with a great recipe for making a ‘properly carroty’<\/em>\u00a0carrot cake. For those of you on a health push: this cake\u00a0has no refined sugar, only a small amount of fat (and all healthy fats at that) and – of course – lots of carrots, so you don’t\u00a0have anything\u00a0to worry about!<\/p>\n

A classic carrot cake comes layered with icing in the middle. However, as not that many people have two identical cake tins to bake two layers (and even less people have the patience to\u00a0bake one layer after another in one tin), we’ll help you out and show you how to make two layers out of one cake in a neat, easy way.<\/p>\n

Cooking Tip: How to cut a cake lengthways<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you’ve\u00a0tried splitting one cake layer into two parts before, you’ll know this can be a decisive, cake-defining moment. Here’s\u00a0a clever way to cut a cake into two parts that look like they are actually similar:<\/p>\n

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  1. Make an incision around the cake where you want the cake to split.<\/li>\n
  2. Cut a long piece of string, wrap it around the cake so that it slots itself in the incision, tie a knot and pull on the ends of the string. Voila – a perfectly neat cut!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our Healthy Carrot Cake Recipe Carrot Cake has a vegetable\u00a0in its name so\u00a0it must be healthy, right? Sadly, cafes and shops often go low on the carrots but high on the butter and refined sugar, leaving you\u00a0with a spiced sponge that contains\u00a0only a couple of shavings of the promised carrot. In response to this, … <\/p>\n

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