5:2 DIET - VEGAN CARROT CAKE (134 cals/slice)

(For those who aren't sure what the 5:2 diet is, there's a great deal of info here on this thread)

Ingredients:

120g s/r flour

120g sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp ground cloves

½ tsp ground ginger

80g grated carrots

40g vegetable oil
40g mashed banana

120ml water

Method:

•       Preheat the oven to 180C

•       Measure the flour, sugar, spices,carrot and walnuts - stir to distribute 

•       Add the oil, mashed banana and water to the mix and stir – initially with a large spoon or spatula, then with a whisk

•       Pour into an oiled and lined 18cm (7” inch) baking tin or cake tin

•       Put in the oven and cook for between 30-35 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean

•       Leave on a cooling rack in the tin for ten minutes

•       Turn out on to the cooling tray

Calorie count:

120 flour = 355 x 1.2 = 426


120 sugar = 400 x 1.2 = 500


Spices = 6 + 3 + 4 = 13


40 oil = 900 x .4 = 360

40 banana = 38



Total= 1337

The cake weighed 424g after baking, so, dividing it into 10 pieces, each 42g piece will contain 134 calories