[bluebetty]

anyone have a low carb carrot cake recipe?

[mhayden999]

don't I wish I did...been a long time since I had carrot cake!!!!

Mark
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[Monkeymom]

Working on one that has promise. As soon as I get it right, I'll let you know.
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[staceylben]

http://stellastyle.com/community2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10302

Angie posted a picture of George's Spice Muffins made into a cake and suggested it if you miss carrot cake. Here's the link.

Stacey

[Margot]

Wonder if you could use mostly shredded zuchini and just a little carrot mixed into the spiced muffin batter.
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[Monkeymom]

I know carrots are one of the higher carb veggies, but are they bad enough to cut out of carrot cake? Not sure of the answer, but since I don't truly count - I did come up with a recipe that is much lower in carbs than traditional carrot cake. Before finding George, I would have just used my whole wheat carrot cake recipe. Since George and this site, I decided to try it with almond flour. I thought what I came up with was a good substitute, but it may still need tweaking. It came out a little too moist, and the bottom started to over cook a bit. Other than that, it was great! I have no clue what the carb count would be, so if anyone can figure it out per slice for me, I would appreciate it.

1 cup light brown sugar substitute ( I use the splenda blend, but I know that's not the best one out there)
2 cups almond flour
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 cup canola oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup egg beaters egg whites
2 1/2 cups grated carrot
1 tsp vanilla
couple handfuls of raisins
8 oz of crushed pinapple
1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Icing:
16 oz cream cheese ( I use fat free)
2 1/2 cups of sugar free whipped cream
1/4 - 1/2 cup of splenda( depending on taste)
tsp of vanilla


Preheat oven to 350. Coat 8 inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
Combine brown sugar sub, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a bowl. Mix well. Stir in oil and eggs until well blended. Add vanilla. Beat with electric mixer for 30 seconds. Stir in carrots, raisins, pinapple and walnuts.

Pour into prepared pan. Bake 45- 55 minutes or until top of cake springs back when lightly touched. Let cool and ice with cream cheese icing.

Icing:
Whip the cream cheese until smooth. Blend in whipped cream, splenda, and vanilla until creamy.
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[Gma]

I know this post is from last year, but I was craving a carrot cake and started looking for a recipe. I saw Angie's post that she used George's spice muffin recipe and substituted almond flour. So I started playing around with it.

George....I hope you don't mind that I revised one of your great recipes to satisfy a craving.

Note......for those who are following a strict low carb diet, carrots and pineapple are high in natural sugar and should not be included in your program. I wouldn't want anyone to think this recipe is completely legal, because it is not. I certainly wouldn't want anyone's weightloss to stall.These are the changes I made to the original spice muffin recipe:
I used 1 cup almond flour in place of the soy flour
I used 3/4 cup Whey Low Gold (measures like brown sugar)
I left out the all spice and increased the cinnamon to equal 1 tablespoon.
I added 2 cups grated carrots
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup crushed pineapple, well drained

For the frosting:
I used 3/4 cup of regular whey low
8 oz of 1/3 fat cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla

For assembly I basically followed George's directions, except that I used an 8" square pan, which gave me 9 servings. I baked it at 350 for about 55 minutes....or until the center springs back when lightly touched. I think I should have taken it out at about 48-50 minutes. It wasn't dry, but it wasn't quite as moist as I like my carrot cakes.

All in all the recipe satisfied my craving. The program that I use for my recipes gave these nutrition facts:

9 servings:

143 calories
11 g fat
6 total carbs
1 fiber
5 net carbs
2 g sugar
4 g protein

Hope this helps. I certainly can't/won't have this everyday if I want to see weightloss. I think the pineapple and carrots would probably stall me. But for a treat once in a while, this is certainly better for me that the full sugar, white flour version.

Enjoy!!!!!
June

[wiredfoxterror]

this one's really good

Cinnamon Spice Pork Rind Cake
7 egg whites, room temp.
2 cups of pork rind flour
2-1/2 c. splenda or 6 tbls sweetbalance
1/2 c. cinnamon
1 tsp gr. nutmeg
1 tbls cinnamon extract
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda 3/4 c. boiling water
3/4 c. soured, scalded, heavy whipping cream ***
4 egg yolks

*** sour cream*** ~to sour the cream add 2 tbls vinegar to the cream, to scald, bring to slow boil and remove from heat immediately

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, lightly grease one 16x16 rectangular pan, or 2 round or square 8 inch pans.

Add flour, sweetener, cinnamon, nutmeg, extract, powder and soda. Mix until thoroughly blended. Add scalded, sour cream and boiling water. Beat on low speed w/ mixer until well blended. Add egg yolks and beat til smooth,

Beat egg whites w/ mixer on low speed til they are whites are thick and frothy. Increase speed to high and beat until stiff, white peaks form. Be careful not to over-beat or they will lose their volume.

Gently fold in 1/4 of the egg whites into cinnamon batter. Fold in the remaining egg whites, working quickly yet to preserve the volume of the
egg whites.

Pour cake into pan. Bake at 30-36 mins, depending on your preferred moistness level. Take out of oven and cool in pan for 1-1/2 hrs, letting bottom cool. Invert cake onto plate lined with waxed paper, cover w/
plastic wrap and store in fridge. Originally posted by pneuman.
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[wiredfoxterror]

This one's good, too from CUZN VIN

I have created this versatile batter that you can make into GINGERBREAD cake!
1/3 cup Hellman's or Best Foods Mayo
4 Tbls Somersweet
2 eggs
3 Tbls Egg White Powder
3/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
3/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 cup Heavy Cream
1 Tbls Vanilla
1/2 cup Whey Protein Powder( I used Naturade Vanilla Flavor
1 1/2 teas Ground Ginger
2 teas Cinnamon
1 1/2 teas ground Nutmeg
1/2 teas cloves
pinch of salt
In a separate bowl, mix all wet ingreds with Egg White powder until smooth(this is important!) Add all dry ingreds and mix well. Bake in a greased 8 x 8 pan at 350 for 16 minutes. I used a greased nonstick pan.
You can top this with cream cheese frosting as September does.She uses:
1 stick butter
8 oz cream cheese
1 teas vanilla
Somersweet to taste(probably 3 TBLS)
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[Gma]

Thanks Foxye!! They look really good!