Rabbit's Carrot Cake Loaves
Rabbit's Carrot Cake is a dark, not-too-sweet, carrot cake disguised as carrot bread. If you add a cream cheese frosting it's rich enough for dessert, but served as is it's perfect for breakfast or brunch.
Servings 24
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups grated carrots
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice or use juice from the pineapple
- ½ cup canned crushed pineapple drained dry
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (200 grams)
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ to 1 teaspoon salt **
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons unsweetened natural cocoa powder
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup chopped and toasted pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9x5 inch or an 8 ½ by 4 ½ inch loaf pan. As mentioned in the text of the post that goes with this recipe, you can also do it in 2 pans as the original recipe says to do, but you will get shorter more cake-like loaves.
- In a large bowl, toss the carrots with the lemon juice and stir in the pineapple. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, spices and cocoa. Whisk for about 3 minutes or until mixture is very thoroughly blended.
- Pour oil into flour mixture and stir until fully blended. Add the eggs, one by one, stirring until blended. Stir in the vanilla, then stir in the carrot mixture. When well blended, go ahead and stir in the nuts.
- Transfer batter to the loaf pan and bake for an hour, checking after 45 minutes and shielding top with foil. If you are baking two loaves (divided between two pans), the cakes should be ready in 45 minutes, but one loaf will take an hour. Internal temperature should be at least 205F.
- Let cool for about 30 minutes in the pan, then carefully loosen and remove.
- Let cool completely.
Notes
The original version calls for a teaspoon of salt. I used a teaspoon and everyone loved the cake. However, I think ¾ teaspoon or a very scant teaspoon of salt would be even better.