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Yummy! I love carrot cake. Especially when it's covered in cream cheese icing (so wicked!) and sprinkled with shredded coconut.  Here's my recipe if you want to give it a go, it's very easy. Serves 10-12. Ingredients: 100g raisins or currants 1/3 cup orange juice ( I used breakfast juice) 3 large eggs 3/4 cup sunflower oil (I used 1/2 olive oil and 1/2 pumpkin seed oil) 1 firmly packed cup brown sugar 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp mixed spice 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1/2 cup desiccated or shredded coconut 1/2 cup walnuts 3 carrots (grated or if you have a Thermomix use that to grate them) pinch of salt Icing:   250 g cream cheese, 1/3 cup icing sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 2 tbs lemon juice Method: Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line the base of a 22cm springform cake pan. Place raisins or currants in a small saucepan with juice and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 2-3 minutes until mois...

Pie Fruit. I like a mix of Rhubarb & Granny Smith Apples. In a saucepan combine, about 6-8 stalks of Rhubarb cut into small pieces. 4 Granny Smith Apples , peeled, cored and thickly sliced. Juice of 1 orange . 4 tablespoons of raw sugar . (or any sugar to your own taste). I like my apple in larger pieces so when this is cooked it looks like apple pieces in a Rhubarb sauce. Again you can do it how you like.   Pastry: 1 1/4 cups S.R. Flour.  Pinch salt. 1 tablespoon Cornflour. Place in Thermomix and mix 4 sec on speed 7. (If you don't have a Thermomix, you can mix by hand with a fork or in a food processor). 3ozs of Butter Add to Thermomix (or food processor) and mix on Speed 7 until resembles fine breadcrumbs, about 5 secs . If mixing by hand rub butter through with fingertips until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. 1 large egg          1/4 cup sugar. Add to Thermomix and knead on Inter...