Carrot cake recipe?
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| Thu, 08-02-2007 - 11:09am |
My birthday is Saturday and since I don't plan on dining out, I want to make my favorites at home. I figure I can have more of my favorites without having to use the 3-bite rule on everything.
As far as the carrot cake, I know Sheneq and MichaelAnn have suggested the carrot cake or carrot torte. Carrot cake is one of my favorites! I have the torte recipe, but would still like one with flour if possible. I have made one with all whole grain flour (50% WW flour, 50% oat flour) before, but used Splenda for Baking, not the regular splenda.
I searched the threads for a recipe, but only see the one for the Carrot Torte...
Do you guys have a link to a carrot cake recipe that uses regular splenda and the cake still has the right taste/texture?
I also plan on having red wine (which I haven't had in months) so maybe I won't even care what the cake tastes like! :) My tolerance is probably pretty low right now!
-Erica


I've tried a few with whole wheat flour and I didn't like them at all, that's why I use the "torte" recipe. But to me it comes out very cake-like, so I am happy with it. The ones with flour all turned out very, very dry and very "heavy". But if you really want to try it, just take a regular carrot cake recipe and sub the whole wheat flour.
belizesig1
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I agree that WW flour doesn't taste good in them. I had better luck when using oat flour with it.
I hate to mess up a bunch of ingredients. You have a ton more experience with this than I do, so I am going to try to the torte. Is that the one that you guys also put cream cheese icing on?
One more question...
The Carrot Torte recipe includes 1 cup almonds finely ground. Do you have to grind your own or can you use Almond meal/flour? If you grind then, what is the best way to do it?
Brain fart...I initially replied to myself instead of you! Note time...way past my bedtime!
One more question...
The Carrot Torte recipe includes 1 cup almonds finely ground. Do you have to grind your own or can you use Almond meal/flour? If you grind then, what is the best way to do it?
You can use almond meal that you buy - but just make sure it doesn't have any added ingredients. Some do, some don't. I just grind the almonds in the food processor though. You just have to be VERY careful and just pulse so that you don't turn it into almond butter!
belizesig1
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Oh - and yes, its the one I put cream cheese icing on (I just make it as usual but use low-fat cream cheese and splenda)
If you want to make it more "impressive", you can double the recipe and make two 9-in rounds and then stack/frost them like a traditional 2 layer cake.
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