March 16, 2011

Eggless Carrot Cake ~ Butterless, Low Fat & Healthy

Carrot cake is one of the first few cakes I baked. During those beginning days, I stick to the recipe and never attempted to make any changes. Then after few attempts and reading many more recipes in various blogs, I started tweaking the recipe. This recipe is a result of my attempt to use whole wheat flour, low fat, healthy cake.



Ingredients
  •  Wheat flour - 1 cup
  • Sugar - 3/4 cup
  • Grated carrots - 1 cup
  • Refined Oil - 1/3 cup (I used rice bran)
  • Buttermilk - 3/4 cup
  • Vanilla essence - 2 tspn
  • All spice powder -1/2 tspn  (Combo of cinnamon,star anise, cloves powdered together)
  • Baking powder - 1 tspn
  • Baking soda - 1 tspn
  • Chopped nuts/tutti fruity - 1/2 cup

 Method

Sieve together maida, baking powder, soda and spice powder. Add oil, sugar and buttermilk. Whisk until its smooth and is well combined. Now fold the wet ingredients into the dry, mixing with each addition.

Transfer the batter to a greased and dusted cake tin and bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

 
 


The cake is very soft and moist. Since the cake on its own is very sweet, there isn't any need for frosting.  I baked one batch in an aluminium foil box to be taken for a friend.
 
 


 

19 comments:

  1. Nice ...perfect combo of butterless, low fat :) ....yummy

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  2. Very healthy version of carrot cake...Soft too...

    FunWidFud

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  3. One healthy cake with loaded benefits:) I must say that your friend must have enjoyed this cake immensely!

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  4. Woww wat a wonderful looking healthy cake, super delicious..

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  5. Cake with no egg sounds good. Awesome choice for vegetarians.

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  6. Wow!! superb..health and tempting..

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  7. That would be perfect grab and go breakfast! The slices are moist!

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  8. lovely.. i use atta in almost all my bakes..they come out so well..classic carrot cake is my all time favourite.. love the cinnamon and nuts in it..

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  9. A very healthy version of cake,I'm going to try your recipe without any changes since I am not very confident about baking.:-)

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  10. Love it very much.. no eggs no butter n a cake tat sounda awesome..

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  11. Very healthy for diet conscious people. Luv it

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  12. @Rajani akka, after two or three atempts, you too can play around the ingredients.

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  13. Wow...simple and yum.... egg less and butter less makes it more yummier....

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  14. Nice carrot cake...healthy,butter less,egg less..
    Thanks for the gr8 recipe.

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  15. Very healthy cake. Have bookmarked it. Will try it soon

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  16. YOur cake looks lovely and moist, Jayasree. If everything healthy looked this good..... :)

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  17. Tried the cake s'day and it was soooo good. Moist, soft and yummmy. Thanks a lot for the lovely recipe Jayasree!

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