Recipe: Delicious Low fat carrot cake

Low fat carrot cake. These moist and secretly healthy carrot cake cupcakes are high in nutrition, low in fat, and they can even be sugar-free. A normal recipe for carrot cake starts with a cup of oil. Low-Fat Carrot Cake. "Loaded with spice and carrot flavor, this moist and luscious cake is guaranteed to impress." Rebecca Baird - Salt Lake City, Utah.

Low fat carrot cake Tender carrot cake full of cozy spices & topped with sweet cream. A moist low fat but tasty carrot cake. Using a maximum of natural sweetness of its ingredients with minimum sugar and oil. You can have Low fat carrot cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Low fat carrot cake

  1. You need of For 1 pound cake tin / 15 cm round cake tin.
  2. You need of [WET].
  3. Prepare 120-150 g of Carrot ( 100-120 g grated carrot).
  4. Prepare 30 g of Chopped raisins.
  5. It's 3 tbsp of Vegetable oil.
  6. It's 2 of Eggs.
  7. Prepare 1 tsp of Mixed spice (or Cinnamon).
  8. It's 50 g of Light brown sugar.
  9. You need of [DRY].
  10. Prepare 100 g of Flour.
  11. It's 1 tsp of Baking powder.
  12. Prepare of [ICING].
  13. It's 80 g of Cream cheese.
  14. It's 40 g of Icing sugar.

I was curious to try a lower fat version of my favourite cake. I made a few executive decisions; I added more carrots, raisins and therefore a little more flour and baking powder. Growing up carrot cake was not something that appealed to me. It wasn't until my thirties that I actually gave carrot cake a chance.

Low fat carrot cake step by step

  1. This is ingredients..
  2. Peel and grate carrot into a bowl. After this, preheat the oven at 180 ℃..
  3. Add rest of [WET] ingredients to the bowl and mix well..
  4. Shift [DRY] ingredients into the bowl and mix well with spatula..
  5. Place the mixture in the cake tin. Bake it in the oven for 30-40 mins..
  6. Check with stick if it's not wet. Enjoy your guilty-free sweets!!.
  7. For icing, mix [ICING] well and spread on the cake. Put boiled carrot and mint leaves for decoration..
  8. [Tips] "Mixed spice" has different flavour for each brand. It can be simply cinnamon or cinnamon + ginger + nutmeg..
  9. [Tips] You can add 30 g chopped walnuts if you want additional flavour and texture. 1 tbsp of honey gives you moist and flavour as well..

Once I did, I was sold. Excellent for diabetics or those cutting the sugar, who crave sweets! Definite carrot cake taste, slightly different texture, not in the least greasy, and lacks that odd salty bite carrot cakes sometimes have. Just LOOK at the calorie difference!! by wildheart..are low-fat, but you would never know it, they bake out high with tons of flavor and are extremely moist, you may throw in some chopped nuts also --- for In a medium bowl mix the shredded carrots with the crushed pineapple. Add in the oil/egg mixture into the carrot/pineapple mixture; mix well to.