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Hearty Healthy Carrot Cake
Photo: David Holifield

Hearty Healthy Carrot Cake

17 ingredients 4 steps fandom
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

975
Calories
18g
Protein
29g
Fat
163g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Cream Cheese 1 oz (28g) 99
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Maple Syrup 1 tbsp (20ml) 52
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Cake not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • =
  • 8oz self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 4oz margarine
  • 4oz demerara sugar - Demerara Sugar Cubes
  • 4oz maple syrup
  • 8oz carrots (finely grated)
  • 4oz raisins
  • Filling
  • Rind of one orange (finely grated)
  • 6oz tofutti cream cheese
  • 2oz icing sugar
  • Cream all these together
  • and when the cake is cool enough to cut in half
  • fill with the filling.
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Directions

1

Mix flour and spices.

2

Melt margarine, sugar and syrup together,

3

then stir melted mixture into the flour and spices.

4

Add carrots and raisins and mix well into stiff sticky dough. Cook at 160 C in 1 lb loaf tin for between 1hr - 1hr 20mins.

Recipe sourced from fandom

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