This is Mr I’s favourite cake. The kids are split on it – 2 love it, 2 don’t and the toddler – well he eats anything! I love it. For some odd reason it feels not so indulgent as chocolate cake. Nevermind the 2/3 cups of olive oil!
As my kids’ school and kinder are nut free, we made this cake with more carrot and omitted the walnuts. (Personally I think it is nicer with walnuts though!). I also don’t have an 18cm tin, so used a 20cm tin, hence the slightly shorter style cake.
Simple Carrot Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 cup self raising flour
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2/3 cup olive oil
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2½ cups carrot, finely grated (or you can use 2 cups carrot and ½ cup walnuts, roughly chopped)
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Sift flour into a bowl.
- Add sugar and spices and mix.
- Pour in oil and eggs, then mix with an electric beater for 1-2 minutes.
- With a wooden spoon, stir in carrot and walnuts.
- Pour into a lined 18cm spring form tin and bake for an hour.
- Cake should be cooled in tin for 15 minutes before turning out.
- 1 cup self raising flour
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ⅔ cup olive oil
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2½ cups carrot, finely grated (or you can use 2 cups carrot and ½ cup walnuts, roughly chopped)
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Sift flour into a bowl.
- Add sugar and spices and mix.
- Pour in oil and eggs, then mix with an electric beater for 1-2 minutes.
- With a wooden spoon, stir in carrot and walnuts.
- Pour into a lined 18cm spring form tin and bake for an hour.
- Cake should be cooled in tin for 15 minutes before turning out.
Our current lunch box set up for the primary school kids
I am often asked what do I use for a lunch box for my kids. The photo above shows the lunch box set up we are currently using for the primary school kids. We use:
- A standard lunch box which we can put an ice brick in
- Kids Konserve stainless steel nesting trio
- 4MyEarth Sandwich wrap
- We use the U Konserve 350ml stainless steel thermos when wanting to have soup or use up left overs.
This works well for us as we can:
- add whole pieces of fruit if needed
- the kids can have cut up fruit and veg for brain food
- items can be made the night before and stay fresh
- items can be easily kept separate
- kids know what is for lunch and what is for recess
- they can take single items out as needed
- it can keep food cold
- items don’t get crushed
- and it is waste free
biome ecostores have a huge range of lunch box and lunch box items on sale at the moment, including many of the items I have reviewed above, which is worth checking out if you need new lunch box items.
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