Cooler temps plus a boatload of carrots ready in the garden, means I needed to bake! I love me some carrot cake but I wanted something more nutrient dense.
What better way to celebrate the change of season than baking up some spicy, moist bread studded with flecks of carrot and tender coconut? The aroma as it baked was nothing short of amazing. I used white whole wheat flour, which makes a fairly dense bread. Feel free to use all-purpose flour if you desire a fluffier texture.
2C white whole wheat flour
1t salt
1t cinnamon
1/4t ground ginger
1/4t ground cloves
1/2t baking soda
1/2t baking powder
2/3C sugar
1/4C olive oil
2 eggs
3/4C grated carrots
1/8C shredded coconut (optional. Nuts or raisins would be great too.)
1/3C Plain Greek Yogurt
Combine first 7 ingredients in a large bowl. Combine remaining ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add the dry ingredients from the first bowl to the mixing bowl and combine just until moist. Pour into greased loaf pan.
Bake at 350 for approx. 40 minutes.
Cool, slice and enjoy!
YUM! i love dense bread and i’m a huge fan of the new yoplait fruitful!!
PRINTING as the husband would LOVE LOVE.
(and give you some love if you feel it in my comments today.
theres eggs in there and around HERE we’d eat that for breakfast :))
We love carrot cake, and this looks like a yummy way to bake with carrots too. Thanks for sharing!
Sounds delicious especially for Fall 🙂
Your recipe sounds good! I’ve never had carrot bread before. I like that it has lots of spice, coconut and is low in fat.
Yum! Maybe I will plant carrots next year. Looking for some new veggies to put in my garden:)
Sounds yummy – printing this one now! Thanks for sharing it 🙂
Carrot bread would probably never occur to me, but this sounds so yummy! Thanks for the recipe.
Oh boy I can only imagine the combination of wonderful scents this cooked up! Thanks for sharing I’m going to try it out soon. 🙂
Mmmmmm… I can almost smell it baking!
Looks good. And you get to not feel guilty about eating it – that’s gotta make it a winner.
Bread looks really good – love the addition of the yogurt fruit.
Love me some carrot cake! Yum! And if I just make icing and eat it straight from the bowl rather than on the cake, it doesn’t count, right? 🙂
Carrot bread- what a great idea! I was just thinking about pumpkin bread or muffins… definitely feeling the baking itch with the cooler weather.
MMMM this sounds yummy! I like spice cake and I like everything that you listed in the ingredients!
I’m getting my moms birthday party together and she said her favorite cake is carrot cake (actually she said German Chocolate and then remembered that was my dads favorite). This gives me some great cake ideas to add a little more flavor.
Carla my mom loves German Chocolate cake. Heck I do too. I pretty sure never met a cake I didn’t like.
This sounds delicious, I am going to have to try it!
Looks very moist and delicious. I am so ready for fall, warm spices, baked goods and crock pot meals…. it’s still in the 90’s here in SoCal 🙁
Drooling!!!!
OH MY GOSH. I love pretty much ALL homemade baked goods but those cake pictures seriously have me wanting to take a bite out of my computer screen!!!
Sounds perfect for the Fall temperatures 🙂
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