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Healthy Carrot Cake Recipe

Who says cake has to be bad for you? With the whole grain flour, fruits, nuts, and vegetables that fill this carrot cake recipe, you're practically getting all your nutritional bases covered with just dessert! Make this cake for someone you love to let them know that life is sweet (and that you want them to stick around to have a long one!)

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Healthy Carrot Cake

Ingredients

2 cups (500 mL) whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons (10 mL) baking soda
2 teaspoons (10 mL) cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon (1.25 mL) salt
1 1/4 cups (300 mL) maple syrup
1/4 pound (125 g) shredded carrots
1/2 cup (125 mL) ground pecans
1/2 cup (125 mL) raisins
1/4 cup (60 mL) unsweetened flaked coconut
3 large eggs
1 cup (250 mL) sunflower oil
2 teaspoons (10 mL) vanilla
2 large apples, peeled and shredded

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) and grease a square cake pan with sunflower oil.

Whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a mixing bowl. Add carrots, pecans, raisins, and coconut and blend thoroughly.

In a separate bowl, whisk together maple syrup, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Combine the contents of the two bowls and the shredded apple and stir until just combined. Pour batter into the cake pan and bake until a tester comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes.

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