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Two years ago, on the day before Easter, I bought a spur-of-the-moment plane ticket to fly down to San Diego to join my parents at my grandma’s house. When I arrived that evening, we sat on the comfy sofas in the living room, catching up and making plans for the following day, which resulted in waking up bright and early to…
Tour open houses! Definitely not our typical Easter Sunday routine, but because I had found a few gorgeous little places while searching online, we drove around the city with our sweet realtor to check out each of them, including a condo right in the middle of downtown with floor to ceiling windows lining every room and an adorable two-story house in grandma’s neighborhood with a stunning and spacious white kitchen.
While walking around the various homes, everyone kept looking at me, asking what I thought and if I could see myself living in each one. They knew how indecisive I can be, which doesn’t exactly work well with the fast-paced housing market in Southern California!
That afternoon, back at grandma’s house, we gathered on the couches again. As we recapped the day, I mulled over each place in my head… And then completely surprised everyone, including myself, when I blurted out the one I wanted to make an offer on within just a few minutes!
We called our wonderful realtor, and she kindly offered to contact the seller and start all of the paperwork. Once we emailed her a few key documents, we all started laughing and smiling. I was moving to Southern California!
To celebrate, Mom and I ran out to the store to buy a carrot cake, one of my two favorite cake flavors. (Chocolate is the other!) However…
With all of the excitement of the day, we completely forgot about it being Easter Sunday—the day where people love serving carrot cake for dessert. Every store was sold out!
Just before we turned in defeat to go, we walked past the tables with other treats (besides cake!) in the supermarket’s bakery section, and I spotted a tray of gluten-free miniature carrot cake cupcakes. We decided to give them a shot for our celebratory dessert, along with the apple pie Grandma had bought earlier, and carried them over to the cashier.
Back at Grandma’s once again, we each tried a mini cupcake… But they were rather plain with very few spices and only a few specks of bright orange carrots. They tasted like doctored up vanilla cupcakes, not like true carrot cake!
Yet this Healthy Carrot Bundt Cake would’ve totally satisfied my cravings! It’s supremely moist, exactly the way I love my carrot cake’s texture to be, and it has a lovely balance of mouthwatering sweetness and cozy spices… Along with tons of juicy carrots in every bite!
And unlike those store-bought treats, this healthy recipe contains no artificial ingredients, refined flour or sugar and only 135 calories in each slice!
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