James Martin served up a delicious carrot cake with pecan nuts, sultanas, coconut, baby carrots and caramel on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 200g carrots grated, 175g dark soft brown sugar, 200g self raising flour, 2 eggs, 150ml olive oil, 1 tbs mixed spice, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 100g pecans chopped, 1 lemon zested, 100g sultanas and 50g dessicated coconut.

For the toppimg: 250g mascarpone, 250ml double cream, 2 tbs icing sugar and 12 baby carrots blanched and chilled rolled in caramel.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.