CAROB CAKE

Carob provides the cake with the rich dark colour you might expect with chocolate with some  health benefits  http://www.australiancarobs.com/health.php . This recipe was made especially for a friend who Like myself does not eat chocolate. We wanted to celebrate her little girl's first birthday. The cake was quite delicious and breaks with many of the traditional cake making ideas of first using butter and eggs.

3 cups of self-raising flour.

2/3 cups of carob powder

1 cup of castor sugar

I tsp of salt

2 cups of water

2/3 cup of canola oil

1 tsp of vanilla essence

• Sift flour and carob and combine with other dry ingredients.
• Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl and then combine with the dry ingredients beating until you have a smooth batter.
• Pour into a lined cake tin.
• Cook for 35-45 minutes in a moderate oven. Or until the cake will allow you to pull a skewer out without any mixture attached.

The batter is quite a wet batter (almost like a pancake batter). Do not be concerned as it will rise beautifully and provide you with a lovely moist cake. But there is a thought, I might try carob flavoured pancakes. Imagine that with strawberries and mango.