Mini Carrot Banana Cakes

Name: Thermomix recipe: Mini Carrot Banana Cakes
Prep time: 40 s
Cook time: 60 min
Ingredients: 300 Grams almonds blanched; 1 cinnamon stick(s); fresh nutmeg to taste; 1 Teaspoon ground ginger; 1 Teaspoon ground allspice; 500 Grams carrots, cut pieces; 2 large bananas, ripe; 100 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO); 2 Teaspoons vanilla bean paste; Pinches pink salt flakes; 3 eggs; 180 Grams pure maple syrup; 200 Grams raisins or golden raisins or Inca berries; 2 Teaspoons GF baking powder; 500 Grams cream cheese; 1 orange, zest and juice; 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste; 75 Grams pure maple syrup

Makes 8-10 mini loaves Prep Time 40 seconds Cook Time 60 minutes Rated: Print

These little cakes are so pretty, you could even make them as cupcakes to help them go further. They are the perfect change to the good old orange-almond-stock-standard-gluten-free cake that sometimes seems to be the only option available.

Fear not gluten-free cake lovers, this cake will tick a lot of boxes for you. And it’s different! Oh, and don’t scrimp on the cream cheese frosting. It is cake, after all!

You can call these healthy. I will allow!

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Need

The Cakes
300 Grams almonds blanched
1 cinnamon stick(s)
fresh nutmeg to taste
1 Teaspoon ground ginger
1 Teaspoon ground allspice
500 Grams carrots, cut pieces
2 large bananas, ripe
100 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
2 Teaspoons vanilla bean paste BUY
Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
3 eggs
180 Grams pure maple syrup
200 Grams raisins or golden raisins or Inca berries
2 Teaspoons GF baking powder
The Frosting
500 Grams cream cheese
1 orange, zest and juice
1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
75 Grams pure maple syrup

Do

1: Preheat oven to 160°C and place a large baking dish of water onto the bottom shelf of the oven. Brush 12 hole mini loaf tin with EVOO generously. Set aside.
2: Place almonds, and spices into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 10. Remove from bowl and set aside.
3: Place carrots into Thermomix bowl and grate 4 sec/speed 5.
4: Return the nut mix to the Thermomix bowl with all remaining ingredients except dried fruit. Blend 20 sec/speed 8.
5: Add raisins and incorporate 3 sec/speed 6.
6: Scrape out and into prepared tin. Place into water bath. Bake 60 minutes or until skewer inserted into centre of cakes comes out just a little bit sticky. Cool completely.
7: Top with frosting, and a few chopped nuts to garnish if desired.
8: Frosting:
9: Place all ingredients into clean dry Thermomix bowl and blend 30 sec/speed 4.
10: Refrigerate 1 hours before generously frosting cooled cakes. (Try not to eat the frosting straight from the bowl!)

Served with

Spiced Chai Brew Choc

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!