THis is a recipe that my grandmother made often. I pulled it from a sugar free websire, but it is much the same.

I guess the difference is we never used self rising flour, we used flour, salt and baking powder and grammy never used butter, she always used stick margerine. I use butter though.

Apple Carrot Cake

2 cups self-rising flour

? cup butter

1 teaspoon cinnamon powdered

1 cup walnuts (silvered)

2/3 cups raisins

2 cups apples (peeled and grated)

1 cup carrot (peeled and grated)

1 teaspoon orange peel (grated)

2 eggs

4 tablespoons orange juice

Method

Cream the butter and then add the cinnamon powder to it, then add the self-rising flour slowly by slowly to it and then add all the grated ingredients and then add the egg slowly one by one and mix properly and finally the orange juice and mix the mixture well so that all the ingredients are blended properly. Then pour the mixture into a greased oven dish and bake it in a preheated oven for 1 hour 15 minutes depending on your oven heat at 350 degrees.

I'm not so sure... this is a cake my grammy made for her sister who was diabetic.

Looking at recipes, I see lots of apple cake recipes, most of them have artifical sweetener in them, the recipe I have does not use any sugar, it is all provided by the natural sweetness of the apples and carrots.

Check out this web site from the National Diabetes Assoc.