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Spiced Carrot Quick Bread

You can feel good about starting the day with this lightened-up carrot quick bread that tastes like carrot cake!
Servings 1 loaf

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsps ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup light brown sugar lightly packed
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup carrots shredded
  • 1/3 cup raisins
  • 1/3 cup pecans coarsely chopped

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350F. Prepare a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan by coating it with cooking spray or lining with parchment paper.
  • In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. In a separate bowl, beat together egg, sugars, applesauce, oil, and vanilla extract. Pour the mixture into the dry ingredients, mixing just enough to moisten. Fold in carrots, raisins, and pecans, then spoon the batter into the loaf pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until the bread is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes before remove the loaf from the pan.
  • Serve warm or at room temperature.