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Spiced Carrot and Coconut Cake

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This is my all-time favourite carrot cake: the coconut and gram flour add a wonderful texture and flavour, and incidentally, make the cake suitable for gluten-free baking. If you don’t have gram flour to hand, you can substitute with ordinary plain or gluten-free plain flour.

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Ingredients

olive oil
soft dark brown sugar
medium free-range eggs
grated carrot
gram flour (or plain flour, if not making gluten-free)
desiccated coconut
baking powder
ground cinnamon
grated nutmeg
For the icing:
icing sugar
cream cheese
lemon juice

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