HFG carrot cake

If you love carrot cake, you’ll adore this low cost, HFG makeover recipe! Perfect with a nice cup of tea and an absolute joy to eat.

Serves: 12

Time to make: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

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Cake
1 ½ cups wholemeal flour
½ cup self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup brown sugarlight brown cane sugarX
½ cup walnuts, chopped
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 cups grated carrot
440g can crushed pineapple, drained
¼ cup canola oil
3 eggs
IcingFrostingX
100g extra-lite cream cheese
⅔ cup (70g) icingfrostingX sugar
rind of 1 lemon, grated

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Instructions

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1 Set oven to 180°C. Lightly grease a 22cm springform tin. Sift flours and baking soda into a bowl; return husks to bowl. Add brown sugar and mix well to break up any lumps. Add walnuts, cinnamon, grated carrot and crushed pineapple.

2 In another bowl or jug, mix the oil and the eggs together; add to the other ingredients and mix until blended.

3 Transfer batter to tin and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack.

4 To make the icing, beat the cream cheese in a bowl until soft and creamy. Add icing sugar and grated lemon rind. Mix to combine. (If the frosting appears a little runny at this stage, refrigerating for a while will thicken it.)

5 When the cake is cold, spread with cream cheese frosting and decorate with walnut halves.

HFG tip

Traditional carrot cake (per serve)

Total energy 1445kJ
Total fat 15.8g (3.6g saturated fat)

HFG carrot cake (per serve)

Total energy 1100kJ
Total fat 10.1g (1.4g saturated fat)

Nutrition Info (per serve)

Calories 263 cal

Kilojoules 1100 kJ

Protein 6.6 g

Total fat 10.1 g

Saturated fat 1.4 g

Carbohydrates 36.7 g

Sugar 23.4 g

Dietary fibre 3.5 g

Sodium 70 mg

Calcium 85 mg

Iron 1.7 mg

Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.