Recipe: Yummy Low fat carrot cake

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Low fat carrot cake. A normal recipe for carrot cake starts with a cup of oil. These moist and secretly healthy carrot cake cupcakes are high in nutrition, low in fat, and they can even be sugar-free. A moist low fat but tasty carrot cake.

Low fat carrot cake I have been making carrot cake for years, and each time it seems to improve with a little tinkering here and there. A few years ago I attempted a low-fat version rather reluctantly, not believing it was possible. Now I have to admit it's become one of my favourites..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. You can have Low fat carrot cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Low fat carrot cake

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

Add in the oil/egg mixture into the carrot/pineapple mixture; mix well to. 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. Once I did, I was sold.

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..

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. Beat the cream cheese, confections' sugar and maple syrup in a medium bowl just until blended and smooth. Spread on top of the cooled cake.