Healthy Carrot Cake

Easter is a great time for great food, being with family, egg hunts, coconut, and carrot cake! But the most important part about this holiday is about what the Lord has done for us. Spring time is the perfect time to acknowledge new life and what it can represent in our lives of what Jesus Christ has sacrificed for us. We can thank him for our food and enjoy this whole wheat carrot cake.

Healthy Carrot Cake

Serves: 12

Total time: 45 min to one hour

Ingredients:

-2 cups whole wheat flour

-2 tsp baking soda

-2 tsp baking powder

-2 tsp cinnamon

-Pinch of salt

-1/4 tsp ground ginger

-1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

-1/4 cup brown sugar 

-2 cup grated carrots

-3 eggs

-1 cup soy milk

-1/2 cup applesauce

-1 tsp vanilla extract

-2 tbsp maple syrup

-cream cheese icing (I brought the regular from a container- not so healthy but you need a little sweetness)

-1/2 cup shredded coconut, sweetened (I found pink and purple colored coconut, festive!)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Mix dry ingredients together: flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, ginger, nutmeg, brown sugar, carrots.

3. Mix wet ingredients into a separate bowl: eggs, soy milk, applesauce, vanilla extract, maple syrup.

4. Grease a 9 inch pan, you will have extra for a mini loaf or cupcakes.

5. Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients until it blends together. Pour into the pan.

6. Bake for 30-40 minutes.

7. Cool the cake, than put icing on the top of the cake (the less=less calories/sugar!) and top with shredded coconut.

8. Enjoy the carrot cake without feeling guilty!

Nutritional facts

for one serving (there are 12 in this cake):

177 calories

5 g fat

46 mg cholesterol

377 mg sodium

196 mg potassium

31 g Carbs

4 g Fiber

14 g Sugar

5 g Protein

64% Vit A

5% Vit C

6% Calcium

7% Iron

Happy Easter!!
Check out my Easter basket I got from the Easter bunny! The bunny knows me well!