Carrot cake is a cup of coffee's best companion but did you know you can save up your carrot scraps and make your very own zero waste carrot cake?Our zero waste carrot cake recipe

Ingredients

Cake

225g self raising flour

150g light brown sugar

125g sultanas

150g carrot peels and grated carrot

1 grated orange rind

3 eggs

175ml sunflower oil

1 tsp mixed spice or (1/2 tsp cinnamon + 1/4 tsp of nutmeg)

Pinch of bicarbonate of soda

Cream cheese icing

225g cream cheese

375g icing sugar

1tsp vanilla extract 

Method

Preheat your oven to 150˚C

Line a 15cm round cake tin with a double layer of baking paper

Beat eggs with the oil 

Stir in sugar, sultanas, carrots and rind 

Add all of your dry ingredients and stir well 

Pour into tin, flatten top and bake for 1 hour 

Allow it to cool before removing from tin 

For icing, mix all your icing ingredients together until smooth and then gently smooth over the top of your fully-cooled cake