Recipe: Perfect Whole Wheat Carrot Cake

Whole Wheat Carrot Cake.

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

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

Whole Wheat Carrot Cake instructions

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..