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DIY Recipes: How to make carrot bread

This bread tastes just as good as any carrot cake.

Carrot bread

Carrot bread is a sweet and delicious quick bread filled with carrots, spice, etc.

Ingredients

1 ¾ cup flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

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½ teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

¼ teaspoon ground ginger

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

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3 eggs

¾ cup vegetable oil

1 medium apple peeled and grated

2 cups grated carrots

1 cup light brown sugar packed

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1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¾ cup chopped pecans

Method

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.

Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and ground nutmeg in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, stir together the eggs, vegetable oil, grated apple, grated carrots, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and chopped pecans.

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Stir the flour mixture into the carrot mixture just until combined. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Do not overbake.

Cool the bread in the pan on a wire rack for 5-7 minutes before carefully inverting it onto the wire rack and gently rolling it over.

Cool for 2-3 hours before slicing. Serve.

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