Healthy Carrot Cake Loaf
This Healthy Carrot Cake Loaf is perfect for spring! It's naturally sweetened, spiced with a dash of cinnamon, moist, and tender, and topped with a light and sweet maple glaze.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- ¼ cup cup honey
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil or coconut oil melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups 200 grams almond flour
- 2 tablespoons 15 grams coconut flour
- 1-½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch fine sea salt
- 1 cup grated carrots from about 2 medium carrots
Optional Add-ins:
- ½ cup raisins
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup walnuts or pecans chopped
- Glaze:
- ½ cup organic powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1-2 tablespoons almond milk
- ½ teaspoon maple extract optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF and line a 8"x5" loaf pan with a parchment paper sling.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, applesauce, honey, oil, and vanilla until combined. Add in almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and whisk until fully combined.
- Fold in carrots and any optional add-in’s.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and smooth over the top.
- Bake in preheated oven for 45-50 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Let cool the loaf cool completely.
- To make the optional glaze: Whisk all ingredients together. If the glaze is too thick you can add a tablespoon more almond milk at a time until it has reached the desired consistency.
Notes
- Looking for a glaze made without refined sugar? Check out the glaze used in this recipe.
Nutrition
Serving: 1piece | Calories: 351kcal | Carbohydrates: 20.7g | Protein: 11.6g | Fat: 24.9g | Saturated Fat: 6.2g | Cholesterol: 93mg | Sodium: 67mg | Fiber: 5.3g | Sugar: 10.7g