Healthy Carrot Cake and Icing
No more refined sugars, only tasteful honey and apple sauce fill this cake's sweet requirements.
Equipment
- 2 9inch pans
- mixer
- Spatula
- cake stand
Ingredients
Carrot Cake
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1+1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1+1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup honey
- 1/2 cup coconut oil melted
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup apple sauce
- 1 cup walnuts crushed
- 3 cups carrots
Cream Cheese Icing
- 1+1/3 cup cream cheese
- 1/4 cup butter salted
- 3 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp arrowroot powder
Instructions
Carrot Cake
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Prepare pans by wiping the surface with butter so that batter doesn't stick while baking
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon
- In a large bowl, beat eggs on high for 1 minute
- Add honey and beat on high for another 4 minutes
- Stir in melted coconut oil, vanilla and apple sauce
- Add half of flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir in
- Add other half of flour and stir until well combined
- Stir in carrots and nuts
- Divide batter between two 9 inch pans
- Bake for 30 minutes or ntil no batter sticks to a fork when inserted
- Remove the pans and allow them to cool before removing the cakes
Cream Cheese
- Beat cream cheese and butter together
- Add honey, vanilla and milk and beat until well combined
- Add arrowroot powder and beat for another minute