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This delicious carrot cake recipe is made without frosting and is perfect with coffee for breakfast or as an afternoon snack with hot tea.

An easy carrot cake recipe without frosting

Bake this healthy kid-friendly carrot cake for your next party with minimal ingredients and healthy alternates.

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These cakes also make great food gifts for family and friends during the holidays. Just use your loaf pan or 2 half-size loaf pans to bake a giftable healthy treat.

I call this cake healthy not only for the fresh carrots used but also for the whole wheat flour. Yup, the only flour used in this healthy carrot cake is whole wheat flour!

Options for this easy homemade carrot cake

Carrot cake with plain flour or cake flour:

If you prefer not to use wheat flour, standard white flour types can be used.

Plain white flour gives an even more soft and fluffy cake than the wheat flour, and is suitable for parties.

If you plan to use cake flour or self-rising flour, just skip the baking powder and baking soda.

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For those who do want to add frosting, go for the classic cream cheese frosting.

For an eggless carrot cake:

To make it eggless, just skip the egg and add extra yogurt, applesauce, or even crushed pineapple.

The yogurt makes the cake super-moist and soft, blending beautifully with the carrot.

If you want a vegan version of this cake, try this vegan carrot cake recipe; it even has a vegan cream cheese frosting.

A few basics about baking powder and baking soda

Whenever we use baking soda, we need to add an acidic ingredient like yogurt or buttermilk or lemon or vinegar or brown sugar.

The acid reacts with the soda base, and due to the chemical reaction, bubbles/carbon dioxide form. This makes the cake airy and fluffy.

Keep in mind that baking soda gives a heavy metallic bitter taste when too much is added. As a rule of thumb for recipes with baking soda, use just 1/4 tsp for one cup flour. Never more than that.

When it comes to baking powder, they are double-acting, meaning they create the chemical reaction on their own, even when no acidic ingredient is present.

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And when the recipe calls for both baking powder and soda that means the ingredients require extra leavening to come up.

Why are both baking powder & baking soda used in this carrot cake recipe?

In this carrot cake recipe, we use almost equal amounts of grated carrot and whole wheat flour. Both carrot and wheat flour are dense items that may make the cake heavy and dense difficult to raise.

So we use both baking powder and baking soda to make the cake light. The acidity in the yogurt and brown sugar reacts with the soda to create fluffiness.

Ingredients for a simple carrot cake (without frosting)

Making the breakfast carrot cake

Preparation:

• Choose two large fresh carrots, wash them, and peel and discard the skin.
• Grate them using a small-holed grater. Finely grated carrot is better suitable for our soft carrot cake.
• Set the grated carrot aside.

Tips for this healthy carrot cake:

1) This carrot cake recipe can be made without egg. For the eggless version use a little extra yogurt or applesauce (1/2 cup instead of 1/3 cup).

2) If you wish to use only brown sugar you can skip white sugar. But make sure the sugar granules are fine enough to blend well. If bigger granules are left without proper mixing they may give an unpleasant experience while biting this super-soft carrot cake.

3) Likewise, the use of nuts is completely optional. Nuts give crunchy delicious bites for this carrot cake. Chopped pecans or chopped walnuts are perfect for this cake. Raisins can also be added.

4) Instead of grated carrot, you can use blended carrots. But this adjusts the consistency of the batter which may alter the texture of this delicious carrot cake.

We hope you’ll enjoy our easy carrot cake recipe!

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