I love carrot cake. Love it. I’ve perfected a carrot cake recipe and can almost make it in my sleep {because good grief I have a TON of carrots to use up!}. And I thought it was my favorite carrot recipe. It now has some serious competition! Holy canolies people, I wished I had made this carrot bread sooner. Because hello, this cake was freakin’ awesome.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda {15 Cool Uses for Baking Soda}
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup applesauce
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk {I used 2%}
2 cups shredded carrots
1 1/3 cups sweetened coconut flakes
1/2 cup raisins {optional}
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped {optional}
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 F. Thoroughly grease 2 bread pans and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine first 6 ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix applesauce, eggs, and milk until incorporated. Combine wet and dry ingredients and stir just until blended. Fold in remaining ingredients. Divide batter equally between prepared pans and bake for 50-55 minutes or until cooked through.
Margaret Thele says
You left out the oil in the ingredients – how much to use? want to make this tomorrow!
Linda says
The applesauce replaces the oil.
Mavis Butterfield says
Hi Margaret, I used applesauce instead of oil. It was a typo. I removed it. Thanks.
Linda says
Help Mavis,
I can’t eat coconut, what can I use for a substitute? I love carrot cake, and your jam too!!!
Your fan,
Linda
Mavis Butterfield says
I suppose you could leave the coconut out and maybe add a few more raisins instead?
Linda says
Ok cool.
Angela Kozak says
I’d like to sub the 1/2 c applesauce for coconut oil. how much coconut oil do you suggest I use?
Rebecca in MD says
I made this carrot coconut bread recipe today, and using 2 bread pans it can out flat – – – I think the batter would have been fine for one bread in a standard bread pan. Did you use mini pans?
Karen R. says
I ran into the same thing. I used 8.5 x 4.5 pans, and the bread rose, but they were weirdly short. Am I missing something?
Jay says
This was a wonderful bread. I knew that, for our small family, two loaves would be too much, so I halved the recipe. I even put it in our air fryer in a round, parchment paper liner. Not knowing how long to cook it, I tried it for 15 minutes on 350. The center was still gooey, so I put it in for another 10 minutes. All in all, the recommended time for an air fryer baking time would be about 25-35 minutes. I left out the walnuts because I don’t care for nuts in deserts, except Snickers candy. 🙂