Much better than a lot of full fat carrot cake.
Low fat carrot cake recipe.
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.
Instead of the vegetable oil i used one cup of non sweetened apple sauce.
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.
I never tire of carrot cake and this is one i make time and time again as it s.
So that makes 2 cups of whole wheat flour total.
It almost uses what you have.
I replaced the cup of cake flour with a cup of whole wheat flour.
Gradually beat into sugar mixture until blended.
In a large bowl beat the brown sugar buttermilk egg whites egg oil and vanilla until well blended.
Carrot cake with walnuts raisins and pineapple.
Now i have to admit it s become one of my favourites.
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.
Combine the flour baking soda spices and salt.
Instead of the lemon cream cheese frosting try swapping espresso for the lemon juice.
I have made some adjustments to the recipe to make this low fat.
Delia s low fat moist carrot cake recipe.
A few years ago i attempted a low fat version rather reluctantly not believing it was possible.
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.
Some recipes used cake flour.
Many use 100 all purpose flour and some a substituted some whole wheat flour.
Add half a cup of drained tinned pineapple along with the carrot.
This recipe delivers a low fat version of a perennial favorite through use of applesauce.
Add half a cup of dried blueberries to the batter and stir in by hand.
Carrot cake some time back carrot cake became the poster child for a healthy sounding food that is actually a fat and calorie disaster.
It s also one of the quickest easiest cakes ever.
I like a carrot cake that has what i would term good crumb along with great taste.
