Recipe: Appetizing Whole Wheat Carrot Cake

Whole Wheat Carrot Cake.

You can cook Whole Wheat Carrot Cake using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Whole Wheat Carrot Cake

1. It's 1/2 cup of apple sauce.
2. It's 1/3 cup of maple syrup.
3. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of grated carrots.
4. It's 2 of eggs beaten.
5. It's 2 teaspoons of vanilla.
6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
7. It's 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
8. You need 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg.
9. You need 1/2 teaspoon of ginger.
10. It's 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
11. You need 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
12. You need 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour.
13. Prepare 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds.
14. You need 1/2 cup of dried apricots chopped.

Whole Wheat Carrot Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350F..
2. Mix apple sauce and maple syrup in a medium bowl. Then add eggs, vanilla and carrots..
3. Mix in salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger..
4. 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..
5. Add the flour. Once it is completely mixed in, add the apricots and sunflower seeds..
6. Pour the batter into a greased tin and bake for 1 hour..