Spice infused carrot cake

I found this great recipe for a carrot cake the other day and to my delight it was really low in sugar and full of beautiful spices. even though we are allowed sugar on a fructose diet i never used to like using it prior to being diagnosed so its always a bonus when i don't have to use much. I experimented and changed a few things around to make it everything friendly and was really pleased with the taste. If you like the tastes of nutmeg, cinnamon and orange zest then hopefully you will love this cake as much as i did.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup of GF plain flour (the recipe i followed called for pastry flour but i only had GF plain flour in the cupboard so i used that, i made a mixture of 3/4 cup of GF plain flour and 1/4 cup of some GF vanilla cup cake flour i had in the cupboard as well, you don't have to do this, although it may have made it that little bit sweeter- feel free to play around with different flours)
1 1/4 teaspoons GF baking powder 
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of nutmeg (i love the taste of these spices so added a bit more then these quantities- these are just suggested amounts, add according to taste buds)
1 pinch of sea salt
1/4 cup crushed walnuts
About 2 tablespoon of melted nutalex / about 30mls
1 good teaspoon of finely grated orange zest ( again zest can be altered in amount depending on what you like. This was not in the original recipe, instead they used 1/4 cup of dates, if you can tolerate dates use them if you wish, you just need to chop them into a type of paste)
1 1/2 quite ripe bananas (mashed well)
1 cup grated carrot
just under 1/4 cup of rice milk 
1 egg lightly whisked
2 teaspoons of glucose powder
2 teaspoons of pure maple syrup


DIRECTIONS
Smear a thin layer of nutalex over a loaf tin, (i used about a 15x5x5 glass because that was all i had)
* Pre heat oven to 175 degrees celsius
* Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt
* Stir in the walnuts to the flour mixture and set aside
* Stir the orange zest into the melted nutalex and add the glucose powder and maple syrup (the glucose and maple syrup were not in the recipe i added them as without the dates i thought the cake may need a bit more sweetness, feel free to add whatever amounts to suit how sweet you want it, or another type of fructose free sweetener)
* In a separate bowl combine the carrot and banana. Stir in the orange-nutalex mixture. Then whisk in the milk and egg.
* Add the flour mixture and stir until everything just comes together
* Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for about 50-60 min or until a knife tests clean in the centre of the cake
* The original recipe also uses cream cheese and maple syrup on top of the cake, i cant have that but if you can im sure it would taste great. if not i just sprinkled the cake with some extra crushed walnuts and pepitas

Remove from oven, allow to cool slightly and serve a slice with nutalex and a small splash of maple syrup. Yum