Carrot Cake
"My husband could live on this cake. This was my grandmothers recipe. The recipe used to call for a cup of oil, and I changed that to applesauce to lower the fat. The applesauce does make the cake dense, but the taste is very rich. Yummy."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
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1 cake
ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups grated carrots
- 1⁄2 - 1 cup raisins, optional
- cream cheese frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese (I use light)
- 1⁄4 cup margarine or 1/4 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
directions
- Mix together dry ingrdients.
- Stir in applesauce, water, eggs, carrots, and raisins.
- Bake in greased cake pan at 350 for 35-40 minutes, or until done.
- For frosting, cream together cheese and margarine.
- Add vanilla.
- Slowly add powdered sugar.
- Use mixer.
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Reviews
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This cake has a wonderful flavor. The frosting is also delicious! This is a good enough for company type of cake! Thanks for the recipe. -
Carrot Cake is my husband favorite and he says this is the best he has ever tasted. I substituted carrot juice for the water, added chopped 1/2 cup walnuts to the batter, and sprinkled some chopped walnuts on the top after frosting. Delicious! -
I added 1/4 tsp each allspice, cloves and ginger. Made 24 cupcakes using jumbo sized papers, so I think a 9"x13" cake pan would be fine.
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This is excellent. I really don't like pineapple in carrot cake and when I found this decided to give it a try. It is amazingly moist and flavorful (I did add nutmeg to it). For the frosting I desicated coconut and added it to cream cheese, 1 T butter 1 tsp vanilla and squeezed lemon juice from 1/2 lemon. Fabulous!!! -
What a great recipe! Made it for the family Easter egg hunt and everyone loved it, and were very surprised that it was low fat due to no oil! I love that about it! Next time I may do one cup whole wheat flour, just to make it healthier. I only used about a tablespoon of butter, I thought 1/4 cup would be too much...Thanks again for the new favourite!
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Tweaks
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A healthy alternative to traditional carrot cake. I added 1 cup dates & 1 cup pecans instead of the raisins. Probably won't last the night once the kids get a hold of it... -
Carrot Cake is my husband favorite and he says this is the best he has ever tasted. I substituted carrot juice for the water, added chopped 1/2 cup walnuts to the batter, and sprinkled some chopped walnuts on the top after frosting. Delicious!
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