Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, whole wheat carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This healthy carrot cake recipe is incredibly moist and nobody will believe it's whole wheat! Recipe includes a less sugary cream cheese frosting. Can also be made with all-purpose flour or gluten-free flour.
Whole Wheat Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Whole Wheat Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook whole wheat carrot cake using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Whole Wheat Carrot Cake:
- Prepare 1/2 cup apple sauce
- Make ready 1/3 cup maple syrup
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups grated carrots
- Take 2 eggs beaten
- Prepare 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Get 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- Take 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- Take 1/2 cup dried apricots chopped
Whole wheat flour (spelt flour): It is crucial you use one these flours. White flour or any gluten free flour acts differently. Easy healthy carrot cake recipe starts with baking, frosting and serving it all in the same pan. Cake is so moist, you don't need the frosting between the layers.
Instructions to make Whole Wheat Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Mix apple sauce and maple syrup in a medium bowl. Then add eggs, vanilla and carrots.
- Mix in salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.
- Add baking soda and baking powder. It is important to add these ingredients separate from the rest but just before the flour as they will give your batter some air bubbles.
- Add the flour. Once it is completely mixed in, add the apricots and sunflower seeds.
- Pour the batter into a greased tin and bake for 1 hour.
My very first whole wheat cake ! If you have visited my space before , you might have noticed that healthy baking is not my forte. Inspired by several recipes I saw online , I figured out a recipe in my head. Like my most cake recipes, this carrot cake is also made with whole wheat flour. though you can also make it with all-purpose flour. The cake tastes good and is filling.
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