Low fat carrot cake. Vegan & Healthy Carrot Cake Cupcakes. No one can ever tell they aren't full of fat and calories! But while traditional carrot cake may seem healthy (it's made with a vegetable!), it is secretly full of so much sugar, fat, and empty calories that you might as well be eating a Snickers bar.
It's protein-packed & has less than half the calories of a traditional recipe! in Baking· Cake· Clean Eating· Desserts· Gluten Free· Low Fat· Vegetarian. Tender carrot cake full of cozy spices & topped with sweet cream. Here's a super moist, low fat carrot cake recipe perfect for Easter or anytime of the year. You can cook Low fat carrot cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Low fat carrot cake
- You need of For 1 pound cake tin / 15 cm round cake tin.
- Prepare of [WET].
- Prepare 120-150 g of Carrot ( 100-120 g grated carrot).
- You need 30 g of Chopped raisins.
- You need 3 tbsp of Vegetable oil.
- It’s 2 of Eggs.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Mixed spice (or Cinnamon).
- It’s 50 g of Light brown sugar.
- You need of [DRY].
- Prepare 100 g of Flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Baking powder.
- It’s of [ICING].
- Prepare 80 g of Cream cheese.
- It’s 40 g of Icing sugar.
This is made with a can of crushed pineapple which makes it very moist. Seriously the best carrot cake ever!! I feel like it is some healthier than any other recipe. Low in sugar and super moist. a Must try!!
Low fat carrot cake step by step
- This is ingredients..
- Peel and grate carrot into a bowl. After this, preheat the oven at 180 ℃..
- Add rest of [WET] ingredients to the bowl and mix well..
- Shift [DRY] ingredients into the bowl and mix well with spatula..
- Place the mixture in the cake tin. Bake it in the oven for 30-40 mins..
- Check with stick if it's not wet. Enjoy your guilty-free sweets!!.
- For icing, mix [ICING] well and spread on the cake. Put boiled carrot and mint leaves for decoration..
- [Tips] "Mixed spice" has different flavour for each brand. It can be simply cinnamon or cinnamon + ginger + nutmeg..
- [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..
Using a maximum of natural sweetness of its ingredients with minimum sugar and oil. 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..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. A moist low fat but tasty carrot cake. Great taste but low in fat, definitely one to try if your watching the waistline x.
