FRESH ingredients
It’s about time I made cake. I will often make a chocolate cake or a banana cake just to have in the house. This one looks like a goody. I will be making and posting the recipe for my favourite never fail chocolate cake soon btw.
Delish!!
The nice thing about this carrot cake is its addition of fresh ingredients such as pineapple along with the zest of an orange.
It gives it a nice subtle flavour. 
Of course it had cinnamon too. I recently bought some cinnamon from the market. It is “pure Ceylon cinnamon powder” which is known as sweet cinnamon. Apparently according to scientific analysis published in 2010 (this is on the back of the packet!) cinnamon has anti inflammatory, antioxidant and all sorts of other positive effects. In addition, the initiative that produces this cinnamon, Gourmet Goodness http://www.unconditionalcompassion.org
“generates sustainable income for the Foundation of Goodness. 100% of the profits will go towards empowering rural communities and uplifting the lives of disadvantaged people in Sri Lanka.” Doesn’t get much better than that now does it. 🙂
rich thick mixture
lots of really fresh ingredients
I whipped up the cake on a rainy morning. 
It was lovely to be adding so many fresh ingredients to it, the fresh pineapple, dried apricots, raisins and of course toasted hazelnuts, although I think they were for the topping!! I accidentally added them to the cake mix, but that made it even better. I put it into the oven for just under the required cooking time, using, wait for it…my brand new kitchen timer which, my daughter discovered is magnetic so sticks beautifully to the fridge!!! Exciting, don’t you love new gadgets. It really does take the guess work out of cooking a cake, so I have discovered a new joy, small but significant. Haha.
Mascarpone yummmm
The icing was lovely, mascarpone with grated orange zest. It gives the cake a lovely subtle fresh taste. So healthy and yummy. You cannot beat cream cheese icing, ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
