Spiced Parsnip Cake

A delicious treat packed with hidden veg

1 Hour

Serves 10

What you'll need…

  • 500g Parsnips
  • 230g Self raising flour
  • 1 Teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 Teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 2 Teaspoons ground mixed spice
  • 200g Caster sugar
  • 100g Chopped walnuts
  • 3 Medium eggs
  • 150ml Sunflower oil
  • 2 Oranges (zest)
  • 200g cream cheese
  • 50g Unsalted butter
  • 150g Icing sugar
  • 1 Orange (zest)
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The method

1

Preheat your oven to 180°C. Begin by preparing your parsnips. Peel, and trim the ends before coarsely grating. Then zest the oranges.

2

Grease and line the base of 2 20.5cm sandwich tins with baking paper.

3

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice. Add the caster sugar and chopped walnuts, combine and set aside.

4

Put the eggs and sunflower oil in a separate bowl and beat together. Mix into the dry ingredients along with the parsnips and orange zest from 2 of the oranges. Mix until a thick batter has formed.

5

Spoon the mixture into the tins and bake for 25-30 minutes. The cake should be golden and a skewer should come out clean.

6

Leave the cake to cool in the tins for 10 minutes and then remove to allow to cool fully.

7

To make the icing, mix together the cream cheese, icing sugar, butter and orange zest - be careful not to over mix. Leave to chill in a fridge.

8

Once the cake is cooled, sandwich the cakes together using the icing. Top with walnuts and orange zest. Enjoy!

Recipe from Nadiya Hussain

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