Cardamom Carrot Cake

Name: Cardamom Carrot Cake
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: vegetable oil; light brown sugar; eggs; honey; orange zest; all-purpose flour; baking powder; baking soda; fine salt; ground cardamom; carrot; unsweetened applesauce; cream cheese; unsalted butter; icing sugar; vanilla

Preparation info

Makes
one

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home

By Anna Olson and Michael Olson

Published 2010

About

This is a moist spice cake. The applesauce adds moisture while the cardamom is an unexpected flavor that’s great with carrots.

Ingredients

For Cake

¾ cup

Americas
Canada
Baking
Cake
Leftovers
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat oven to 325°F (160°C) and grease a 9-inch (23-cm) round cake pan. Whisk together oil, brown sugar, eggs, honey and orange zest. In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cardamom and stir into wet mixture to blend. Stir in carrot and applesauce and po