Grandma's Healthy Carrot Cake
- 1 cup sugar
- 14 cup canola oil
- 14 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 3 eggs
- 34 cup white flour
- 34 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 12 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 12 teaspoons baking soda
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 1 12 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 cups carrots, peeled and grated
- 1 cup raisins
- 4 ounces soft light cream cheese
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 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!
sugar, canola oil, unsweetened applesauce, eggs, white flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, carrots, raisins, cream cheese, vanilla, icing sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/grandmas-healthy-carrot-cake-288595 (may not work)