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Frosted Parsnip Cake

You Are Sorted | P.22

Makes 16 squares

Ingredients

For the cake

1 lemon

200 g raisins

3 eggs

1 tbsp honey

175 ml sunflower oil

200 g soft light brown sugar

5 parsnips

225 g self-raising flour

2 tsp mixed spice

1 tsp baking powder

For the frosting

50 g unsalted butter , softened

100 g cream cheese

200 g icing sugar

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C. Line a baking tin (20x20cm) with baking paper. Zest the lemon and save for later, then squeeze the juice all over the raisins in a small bowl. Crack the eggs into a mixing bowl and whisk together with the honey, oil and sugar until pale and fluffy.

Peel and grate enough parsnips to make up 225g of gratings. Spoon the flour, mixed spice, baking powder and lemon zest into the sugar and oil mixture then fold in. Add the grated parsnips and raisins with the lemon juice into the mixture then stir to combine.

Pour the mix into the lined baking tin and bake for 40 minutes until risen, golden on top and a skewer comes out clean when stuck into the middle.

Peel the remaining parsnips and keep peeling to make strips of very thin parsnip. Lay these flat on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake alongside the cake for 10-15 minutes until crisp, golden and brittle.

Allow the cake to cool for half an hour in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack. Beat the butter, cream cheese and icing sugar together until lump free. When the cake has cooled to room temperature smear the cream cheese frosting over the top. Carefully cut into squares and finish each square with a shard of parsnip crisp.