Carrot Cake with Dates & Banana that melts in your mouth! Simple and easy to make!

This moist carrot cake is sweetened with dates and bananas, and it's a great illustration of how you don't always have to give in to your sugar cravings. 

Ingredients - Carrot, dates and banana cake

2 Bananas (approx. 200 g)
15 Soft, fresh dates without stones (approx. 250 g)
3 Eggs
50ml Cheasy® skim vanilla
3 Coarsely grated carrots (approx. 200 g)
1 tbsp Oil
175g Wheat flour (approx. 3 dl)
2 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Cardamom
1 tsp Ground cinnamon
½ tsp Salt

How to: 

1. Blend bananas, dates, eggs and Cheasy® skim vanilla in a blender, to a smooth mixture - there may be small pieces of the dates. 
   
   
2. Add carrots and oil into a bowl and stir with the mixture from the blender.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Mix the flour, baking powder, cardamom and cinnamon together and fold it (sprinkled through a sieve) into the mix together with the salt. 
   
   
4. Fasten a piece of baking paper between the ring and the bottom of a springform pan (approx. 20 cm in diameter). 
5. Spread the batter evenly in the spring form and bake the cake in the middle of the oven. 
6. Baking time Approx. 45 min. at 175° - traditional oven.
   
   
   
7. Check whether the cake is cooked through with a skewer. 
8. Let it cool completely in the form on a baking rack.

Ingredients - Frosting: 

200g icing sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla powder

65g soft butter

1 tbsp of milk

How to: 

1. Beat all the ingredients together - be careful not to beat for too long. Put the frosting in a piping bag with a star tip.
2. Take the cake out of the spring form and place it, bottom side up, on a plate. 
3. Pipe the frosting onto the cake, decorate with fruits of your choice and serve.
4. This cake will serve 8-10 people