🥕Homemade Classic Spring Cake & More! 🌼Baking for the Weekend

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: sunflower oil

Coconut oil adds a subtle flavor while sunflower oil is often less expensive.

all-purpose flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: cake flour

Whole wheat flour increases fiber content, while cake flour can be less expensive.

Chop up baby carrots in a mini food chopper until you have about 1 cup.

In a bowl, whisk together 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour, 0.5 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 0.5 teaspoons of salt, and 0.25 teaspoons of nutmeg.

Add 0.5 cups of coconut sugar to the dry ingredients.

Crack in 2 eggs and add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Preheat the oven to 350°F.

Add 1 cup of applesauce to the mixture and mix well.

Melt 0.5 sticks of butter and add it to the mixture.

Fold in the chopped carrots.

Pour the batter into a greased bundt pan and bake for about 22 minutes, checking around 20 minutes for doneness.

Prepare cheesy biscuits by mixing Bisquick with shredded cheese and chopped peppers.

Bake the biscuits according to the Bisquick instructions.

While the biscuits are baking, prepare the icing for the carrot cake using powdered sugar and heavy cream, mixing until thick.

For the peanut butter bites, combine 1 cup of creamy peanut butter with 0.25 cups of maple syrup in a bowl.

Add 1.5 cups of old-fashioned oats to the peanut butter mixture and mix until combined.

Scoop the mixture onto a pan using a cookie scoop.

For the pretzel turtles, lay out pretzels and fill them with melted green candy melts, adding Tic Tacs for feet and almonds for heads.

Decorate the pretzel turtles with sprinkles for eyes and additional candy melts for decoration.

Once the carrot cake has cooled, frost it with the prepared icing in a thick drizzle style, adding orange Tic Tacs as carrot decorations on top.

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