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carrot nut bread

(1 rating)
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Recipe by
Susan Feliciano
@frenchtutor
Oak Ridge, TN

Try to use ground or very finely chopped nuts in this recipe. I grind mine in a bullet blender, with pulses. They are not ground as fine as nut butter. It makes the flavor quite different from regular chopped nuts. This bread tastes as good as (or better than) the carrot bread at Mimi's Café, but I do not know if it is the same recipe. This one originated from an old Joy of Cooking cookbook, and has been modified through the years to suit my tastes.

(1 rating)
yield 1 loaf
prep time 20 Min
cook time 1 Hr

Ingredients For carrot nut bread

  • 1 c
    whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 c
    all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp
    baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp
    cinnamon
  • 3/4 c
    raw or granulated sugar
  • 2 lg
    eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 c
    vegetable oil
  • 1/2 c
    apple butter
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt
  • 1 1/2 c
    finely grated carrots
  • 1 1/2 c
    ground pecans or walnuts

How To Make carrot nut bread

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
  • 2
    Sift together into a large bowl the flours, baking soda, and cinnamon. Add in the sugar, eggs, oil, apple butter, vanilla, and salt.
  • 3
    With a few swift strokes, blend in the carrots and pecans or walnuts. Turn into prepared pan.
  • 4
    Bake about 1 hour, until loaf springs back when lightly touched. Cool in the pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack for further cooling.
  • 5
    This bread may be iced on top with cream cheese frosting and sprinkled with nuts.
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