Wholemeal Carrot Cake Food

WHOLEMEAL CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Sift flour, soda and cinnamon into bowl, return husks in sifter to bowl.
• Add sultanas, carrot and sugar, mix well.
• Beat eggs and oil together with fork, add to well in centre of dry ingredients, beat well.
• Spread mixture into well-greased 28cm x 18cm (11in x 7in) lamington tin, bake in moderate (175 C) oven approximately 40 minutes or until cooked when tested.
• Let stand in tin 5 minutes before turning on to wire rack to cool.

WHOLE WHEAT CARROT CAKE WITH CREAMY ORANGE ICING (LOW FAT)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175 C).
• Lightly butter a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
• Wash and trim carrots and cut into large pieces.
• Place in a food processor and process until finely chopped, or grate carrots finely, to make 2 cups.
• I grated my carrots.
• Set aside.
• Cut orange into 8 wedges.
• Do not peel.
• Remove white center and seeds.
• Cut wedges into 3 or 4 pieces each and puree in a food processor or blender along with the raisins.
• Combine flours, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl.
• In another bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, maple syrup, brown sugar, oil, carrots and orange.
• Stir carrot mixture into dry ingredients until combined.
• Spread batter evenly in pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes, until a cake tester or wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan.
• Prepare icing by working cream cheese and orange juice together with the back of a spoon until combined.
• Stir in enough powdered sugar to obtain a spreadable consistency.
• When cake is cool, spread top with icing.
• Makes 16 servings.
• The One-Day-at-a- Time Low-Fat Cookbook.

WHOLE WHEAT CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Butter 13 x 9 inch pyrex baking dish.
• Combine oil, sugars and eggs in mixing bowl.
• Sift together flours, cinnamon, soda and salt.
• Mix into liquid ingredients.
• Stir in carrots, pineapple with reserved juice and walnuts.
• Bake about 45 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
• Cool.
• Ice with Cream Cheese Frosting.

YUMMY WHOLE WHEAT CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Coat 13 x 9 baking pan with non-stick spray.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour, walnuts, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
• Mix well.
• In a large bbowl combine the applesauce, oil, brown sugar, egg substitute, carrots and orange rind.
• Mix well.
• Add the flour mixture to the applesauce mixture and stir until well-combined.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted int the center comes out clean.
• Cool on wire rack.

THE ULTIMATE MAKEOVER: CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. For the cake, finely grate the zest from the orange and squeeze 3 tbsp of juice. Pour the juice over the raisins in a bowl, stir in zest, then leave to soak while you make the cake. Lightly oil and line the base of a deep 20cm square cake tin. Mix the flours with 1 tsp baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
• Separate one of the eggs. Put the white in a small bowl and the yolk in a large one. Break the remaining whole egg in with the yolk, then tip in the sugar. Whisk together for 1-2 mins until thick and foamy. Slowly pour in the oil and continue to whisk on a low speed until well mixed. Tip in the flour mix, half at a time, and gently stir it into the egg mixture with a rubber spatula or big spoon. The mix will be quite stiff. Put the extra pinch of baking powder in with the egg white and whisk to soft peaks.
• Fold the carrot, raisins (and any liquid) into the flour mixture. Gently fold in the whisked egg white, then pour into the tin. Jiggle the tin to level the mixture. Bake for 1 hr until risen and firm or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin 5 mins, turn out onto a wire rack, peel off the paper, then leave until cold.
• To make the frosting, stir the soft cheese, Quark, icing sugar and orange zest together - don't overbeat. Stir in the lemon juice. Swirl the frosting over the cake and cut into 16 square. This cake is even better if left well wrapped for a day or two before icing and eating. Will keep up to 5 days uniced in an airtight tin, or in the fridge if iced.

THE FANTABULOUS WHOLE WHEAT CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients.
• Add oil, honey, and eggs; mix well.
• Stir in remaining 3 ingredients.
• Bake in two greased 9-inch cake layer pans for 35-40 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Cool in pans several minutes, then remove from pans and cool completely on wire rack.
• You can also bake this in a 9x13 pan as a sheet cake -- just as good, and easier than frosting a layer cake!