Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray two 8-inch round cake pans (or three 6-inch) with cooking spray and dust with all-purpose flour, discarding any extra flour (or spray with baking with flour cooking spray).
- In a large bowl, combine the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer with the beater attachment, beat the brown sugar and eggs until foamy and thoroughly beaten.
- Meanwhile, in your blender or food processor, purée the apple slices and oil together. Pour into the beaten eggs/sugar of your stand mixer.
- Next, purée the carrots and orange juice together. Pour into the beaten eggs/sugar mixture of your stand mixer.
- Add in the vanilla extract, mustard and ginger to your stand mixer and beat on low until all of the wet ingredients are combined.
- Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients of your stand mixer and stir until just combined.
- Equally separate out into your cake pans (about 2 1/4 cups of batter per 8" pan or 1 1/2 cups of batter per 6" pan).
- Bake for 20-30 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean and the edges are light golden brown.
- Allow the cakes to cool for five minutes in the pan before carefully flipping out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, to assemble your icing, beat butter, yogurt and vanilla extract together until combined. Add in the powdered sugar until combined.
- Assemble the cake and decorate as desired.
Notes
For extra security, line the bottom of the cake pans with a round piece of parchment paper, then spray with cooking spray.
