Healthier Honey Nut Carrot Cake
From shirleyoma 16 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 10
For those of us who love to be on the Healthy side of cooking (lol) and love our sweets, this will blow your socks off! Try it, you'll love it. From the Net.
Ingredients
- carrot cake shopping list
- 2 cups firmly packed finely grated carrots (3 large) shopping list
- juice of 1 large orange shopping list
- 2 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 1/4 cup light olive oil shopping list
- 1 cup honey, liquefied in microwave (30 seconds) shopping list
- 1/2 cup crushed or chopped pineapple, drained shopping list
- 1 cup unbleached white flour shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour shopping list
- 2 tsp baking soda shopping list
- 1 tsp cinnamon shopping list
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice shopping list
- 3/4 cup walnuts, chopped shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 2. In a mixing bowl, stir together the carrots, orange juice, vanilla, olive oil, honey, and pineapple until well blended.
- 3. In another bowl, stir together the flours, baking soda, and spices. Mix in the walnuts.
- 4. Blend the dry ingredients into the carrot mixture, stirring until just mixed.
- 5. Pour the batter into a nonstick 8-inch-square baking pan or bread pan and bake for 45-60 minutes until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven, let cool slightly, and remove from pan. Nutritional Information:
- Per serving:
- 334 calories
- 9 g total fat (1 g sat)
- 0 mg cholesterol
- 62 g carbohydrate
- 5 g protein
- 4 g fiber
- 25 mg sodium
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
Yum sounds really good, love carrot cake, this must be very moist, I must make this one. I've had carrot muffins and they were good too. You have my 5
henrie
in Savannah loved it
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Sounds yummy! I love those honey recipes. You have my 5!
Denise
grandmommy
in Nashville loved it
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Oh that picture! I'm such a sucker for a pretty food pic (YES!!!! I'm a gastroporn addict LMAO) Lovely recipe - no raisins! Hmmmmm....just wondering, if I leave out the pineapple, would it affect the outcome? I am definitely gonna try this. Great rec...more
danadooley
in Singapore loved it
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