Low Fat Carrot Cake Recipe

In a large bowl beat the brown sugar buttermilk egg whites egg oil and vanilla until well blended.

Low fat carrot cake recipe.

Much better than a lot of full fat carrot cake. Add half a cup of drained tinned pineapple along with the carrot. Add cup peanut butter to the batter and mix in with the carrot. I never tire of carrot cake and this is one i make time and time again as it s.

Some recipes used cake flour. I have been making carrot cake for years and each time it seems to improve with a little tinkering here and there. I replaced the cup of cake flour with a cup of whole wheat flour. This recipe delivers a low fat version of a perennial favorite through use of applesauce.

A few years ago i attempted a low fat version rather reluctantly not believing it was possible. I have made some adjustments to the recipe to make this low fat. I like a carrot cake that has what i would term good crumb along with great taste. Although we usually cook a thanksgiving style feast for our christmas dinner mom voted for a low key meal instead and bought ham honey mustard and chutneys as toppings potato salad as requested by grandma when she gets a craving there s no stopping her ambrosia salad again grandma s request a baguette and pecan pie for dessert.

Gradually beat into sugar mixture until blended. But we d forgotten how much of a disaster it could be until we looked at an online recipe from a celebrity chef who shall go unnamed. It s also one of the quickest easiest cakes ever. Delia s low fat moist carrot cake recipe.

Carrot cake with walnuts raisins and pineapple. Many use 100 all purpose flour and some a substituted some whole wheat flour. Find the best carrot cake recipe with or without pineapple plus recipes for carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and other easy carrot y treats. So that makes 2 cups of whole wheat flour total.

Spread evenly across the top of the cake make sure that the cake is cool enough otherwise the cream will melt and slide down then put in the fridge for at least 5 hours. For the decoration put all the ingredients into a bowl and beat well until smooth. Instead of the vegetable oil i used one cup of non sweetened apple sauce. Combine the flour baking soda spices and salt.

Carrot cake some time back carrot cake became the poster child for a healthy sounding food that is actually a fat and calorie disaster. Instead of the lemon cream cheese frosting try swapping espresso for the lemon juice.