Low fat carrot cake
Low fat carrot cake

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, low fat carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Low fat carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Low fat carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

In a large bowl, beat the brown sugar, buttermilk, egg whites, egg, oil and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda, spices and salt; gradually beat into sugar mixture until blended. I have made some adjustments to the recipe to make this low fat.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook low fat carrot cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Low fat carrot cake:
  1. Get For 1 pound cake tin / 15 cm round cake tin
  2. Prepare [WET]
  3. Take 120-150 g Carrot ( 100-120 g grated carrot)
  4. Prepare 30 g Chopped raisins
  5. Make ready 3 tbsp Vegetable oil
  6. Make ready 2 Eggs
  7. Prepare 1 tsp Mixed spice (or Cinnamon)
  8. Make ready 50 g Light brown sugar
  9. Prepare [DRY]
  10. Make ready 100 g Flour
  11. Make ready 1 tsp Baking powder
  12. Get [ICING]
  13. Take 80 g Cream cheese
  14. Take 40 g Icing sugar

It's also deliciously moist and light, high in protein, free from refined sugars, and low in fat. Pour into the cake pans, then sharply tap pans once on counter to remove air bubbles. My usual carrot cake recipes don't actually have much more fat than this one, as I prefer a cake-like carrot cake and not a dense/wet one, but this is "reduced" from those oil-heavy recipes, so I'll let the lower fat label stand. The main difference between what I usually make and this recipe is that this one uses oil, not butter, as.

Steps to make Low fat carrot cake:
  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.

Carrots give carrot cake a health-halo effect–people think it's health food, but it's usually very high in fat and calories. First, we use less oil in our batter. Then we skip the butter in the frosting (don't worry, it's still light and smooth). To ensure the cake is moist, we add nonfat buttermilk and. View Recipe: Carrot Cake Some time back, carrot cake became the poster child for a healthy-sounding food that is actually a fat and calorie disaster.

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