Reduced-Fat Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Appears in Cook's Country April​/May 2009

Sure carrots are good for you. But carrot cake? At 500 calories a slice, this cake needed a trim.

SERVES 15

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 1½ hours cooling

Reduced-Fat Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Using too much shredded carrot in our recipe for Reduced-Fat Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting made the batter difficult to spread and the cake heavy. One pound of carrots was all the batter could handle. Instead of oil substitutes, we...

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