Tropical Traditions - Recipe - Amazing Coconut Carrot

Amazing Coconut Carrot Cake

3 cups shredded carrots
1 ½ cups whole wheat flour, fresh ground if possible
½ cup coconut flour
¼ cup whole organic sugar
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¾ cup pecans - optional
¾ cup dried shredded coconut - optional
4 eggs
1 ½ cups honey
1 ½ cups warm liquid coconut oil
1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla
1 8 ounce can crushed pineapple, un-drained

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine all dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add all remaining ingredients and stir until well combined. Pour into un-greased 9x13 inch baking pan and bake for 50 minutes or until tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool.

Optional Icings:

Cream Cheese Icing

8 ounces organic cream cheese
4 ounces soft organic butter
½ cup brown rice syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Coconut flour

Cream everything together until well blended and thicken with a few tablespoons of coconut flour.

Coconut Cream Icing

Beat all ingredients together and drizzle over cake. Icing will separate if left to sit for long, but can just be re-stirred.

Golden Raisin Icing

1 cup chopped golden raisins
½ cup chopped dates, soaked with raisins for 1 hour in orange juice, drained
½ cup chopped pecans
½ cup honey

Beat all ingredients together and spread over warm cake and serve. REALLY GOOD!

Recipe submitted by Amy, Warrior, AL

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This is the BEST carrot cake ever! I used the Coconut Creme icing recipe "it is heavenly".

# Posted By Diane | 2/25/10 8:24 PM

Can you replace the sugar with stevia or apples sauce? Trying to cut back on sugar.

# Posted By Carrie | 7/9/10 1:23 PM

I don't know about stevia, you probably can but it won't be the same. Applesauce won't work. Just cut back on the sugar (or omit it, it's only 1/4 cup) and reduce the honey. This is a cake though, and a pretty large one at that. So the sugar amount is actually pretty reasonable. But feel free to play with the sugar and honey amounts to your taste.

# Posted By Sarah | 7/9/10 6:25 PM

This cake is the BOMB!!!! NO JOKE. I didn't use the coconut flour cause I didn't have any. I used Whole Wheat Pastry Flour instead. I only used 1 tbsp of baking powder and 1 tbsp of baking soda. I used the Cream Cheese Icing receipe and it was wonderful. Thank you so much for this receipe.

# Posted By Dominique | 7/12/10 11:27 PM

This carrot cake really sounds good. I will make this for my Mother's birthday. Then I will let you know how it is.

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