Vegan Carrot Cake

Ingredients:
• 1 medium ripe banana mashed
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1tbsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 ½ cups grated carrots or 2 medium carrots
• ½ cup chopped walnuts
• ½ cup raisins (optional)

Directions
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan or a loaf pan.
• In a large bowl mix oil, white sugar and vanilla essence and mashed bananas. Stir in carrots.
• Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a separate bowl. Fold in pecans. Add this to the above mixture.
• Pour into the greased pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

• Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.