Dairy Free Carrot Cake

Ingredients

2 cups of caster sugar

2 1/2 cups plain flour

2 cups grated carrot

1/2 cups applesauce

2tsp vanilla bean paste

1/4 cup of dairy free margarine

3tsp baking powder

5tsp cinnamon

1 tub of dairy free cream cheese

Icing sugar

1) Preheat the oven to 160C and line two circular baking tins.

2) Grate and measure out the carrots.

3) In a large bowl, beat together the margarine and sugar. Then add in the apple sauce, flour, baking powder, cinnamon and vanilla bean paste.

4) Beat together the cake batter and grated carrots.

5) Pour the cake mix into the two tins and bake for roughly 45 minutes, until firm to the tough.

6) Whilst the cake is baking, make the cream cheese icing. Cream together the cream cheese and icing sugar until they form a thick consistency. Slowly add more and more icing sugar until the icing reaches the ribbon stage (depending on the kind of dairy free cream cheese you use, you may need more or less icing sugar).

7) When the cake cools fully, add a generous layer of icing to the centre and top of the cake and decorate with walnuts.

If you would like to make this cake with dairy, simply switch the ingredients to dairy products.