Grandma's Healthy Carrot Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
-
Cake
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup canola oil
- 1⁄4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 3 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup white flour
- 3⁄4 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 cups carrots, peeled and grated
- 1 cup raisins
-
Icing
- 4 ounces soft light cream cheese
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups icing sugar
directions
- In a large bowl, cream sugar, oil, applesauce and eggs.
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix dry ingredients together and add to creamed ingredients.
- Fold in carrots and raisins.
- Spray a 9x9 pan with non-stick spray.
- Place batter in pan and bake at 275 F for 50 minutes or less.
- Combine cream cheese, vanilla and icing sugar in a medium-sized bowl.
- Blend with hand blender, or cake mixer until no lumps remain (resist the temptation to add milk unless you absolutely have to).
- When cake is fully cool, spread over icing top of cake and let set for about 15 minutes.
- Enjoy!
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<p>I am a Canadian professional musician, living in Boston. When I'm not practising, rehearsing, etc., I like to expend my creativity in the kitchen. <br /> <br />Though I cook all sorts of things, I love to bake! I inherited many of my grandmother's recipes including her carrot cake, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, molasses cookies and more...</p>