• Cooking Time: 40-50
• Servings: 2 loaves
• Preparation Time: 30
• WET INGREDIENTS
• 1.5 cups melted butter
• 1.75 cups honey
• 4 eggs
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Grated rind of 1 lemon
• DRY INGREDIENTS
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 cups white flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2.5 cups shredded carrot soaked in juice of 1 lemon
• Optional: 3/4 cup currants or nuts

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Beat wet ingredients in a large bowl. Mix dry ingredients in another bowl.
3. Add flour mixture and grated carrot alternately to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour (flour-carrot-flour-carrot-flour).
4. After each addition, mix gently to combine, but do not beat or otherwise overmix--this toughens and dries a cake.
5. Add nuts and raisins last.
6. Grease 2 loaf pans.
7. Divide batter evenly and bake for 40-50 minutes.

“You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.” -Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees ~Bacteria will never grow in honey — Because of its high concentration of sugar, its high acidity, and because it actually contains a very small amount of naturally-occurring hydrogen peroxide, honey is hostile to bacteria growth. Therefore, honey will never spoil.~