Healthier Carrot Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 1/2 cups sugar (i use rapunzel)
• 1 cup safflower oil
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 cups stone ground whole wheat pastry flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups carrots, grated
• 1 cup golden raisin (optional)
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 1 1/2 cups sunflower seeds (or walnuts pieces)
• 1 cup crushed pineapple (fresh)
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 mix carrots, walnuts, pineapple, raisins, and coconut with 1/2 cup of the flour to coat. this will keep them from sinking to the bottom of the cake batter.
• 3 sift and mix 1 1/2 cups flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt.
• 4 cream with whip attachment eggs and sugar until light and fluffy (the "ribbon" stage) then drizzle in the vegetable oil.
• 5 fold in the dry ingredients and pour over the carrot mixture.
• 6 fold carefully to blend.
• 7 pour the batter into a buttered and floured pan(10 inch round).
• 8 bake until firm to the touch in the center, about 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
• 9 let cool on a rack and then turn out.
• 10 dust the top with powdered sugar and cut into wedges to serve.