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    Old 11-12-2017, 02:38 PM
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    I bought a cake the other day at Safeway. Wonderful. Is there a recipe out there with these ingredients: Carrots, Nuts and Raisins. The recipe was fantastic. But that frosting. Ewwww Being a diabetic I am careful about sugars. But that frosting they put on it, (I assume is creme cheese) is horrible. Does anyone have this recipe for Carrot Cake.
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    Old 11-12-2017, 03:12 PM
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    This sounds good.
    https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/d...am-cheese.html
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    Old 11-12-2017, 04:59 PM
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    Originally Posted by plainpat
    This sure looks like a good recipe and I do love carrot cake, especially very moist and nutty cake. Thanks for the link.
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    Old 11-12-2017, 05:13 PM
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    Standard icing for carrot cake is philadelphia cream cheese icing. If store bought or restaurant served you have to scrape it off, If homemade, what would you choose? I am not a "crisco" icing fan, popular with the cake decorating teams. My go-to icing is buttercream. But I am open to new ideas.
    As a side note, my carrot cake is made with whole wheat flour, ground from wheat berries so the germ and bran is included. This holds the moisture, and gets more moist each day. This wheat combo adds another level of nuttiness to the cake and takes any baking recipe over the top!
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    Old 11-12-2017, 07:10 PM
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    Heavy, made from scratch cake trumps any box cake in my world !
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    Old 11-13-2017, 06:12 AM
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    Originally Posted by Jane Quilter
    Standard icing for carrot cake is philadelphia cream cheese icing. If store bought or restaurant served you have to scrape it off, If homemade, what would you choose? I am not a "crisco" icing fan, popular with the cake decorating teams. My go-to icing is buttercream. But I am open to new ideas.
    As a side note, my carrot cake is made with whole wheat flour, ground from wheat berries so the germ and bran is included. This holds the moisture, and gets more moist each day. This wheat combo adds another level of nuttiness to the cake and takes any baking recipe over the top!
    If you can't have the cream cheese frosting, then I'd just dust itwith a little powered sugar. I know...it's still sugar, but not that much.

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    Old 11-13-2017, 09:53 AM
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    Just found this recipe the other day and cannot wait to make it...it's rich enough to not need frosting but if i do frost it, I sure don't want cream cheese (yuk) but plain, wonderful buttercream with real butter NO shortening. here's the link.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tyv77N8UNE
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    Old 11-13-2017, 11:03 AM
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    Originally Posted by Jane Quilter
    Standard icing for carrot cake is philadelphia cream cheese icing. If store bought or restaurant served you have to scrape it off, If homemade, what would you choose? I am not a "crisco" icing fan, popular with the cake decorating teams. My go-to icing is buttercream. But I am open to new ideas.
    As a side note, my carrot cake is made with whole wheat flour, ground from wheat berries so the germ and bran is included. This holds the moisture, and gets more moist each day. This wheat combo adds another level of nuttiness to the cake and takes any baking recipe over the top!
    Would you please post your recipe, I grind my own einkorn or spelt berries. Have some carrots now and would be perfect to make a cake.
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    Old 11-14-2017, 05:51 AM
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    14K Carrot Cake

    2 cups plain sifted flour
    2 teaspoons baking powder
    1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
    1 l/2 teaspoon salt
    2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    2 cups sugar
    1/2 cups chopped walnuts
    1 l/2 cups salad oil
    4 eggs
    1- 8 1/2 canned crushed pineapple (drain well)
    2 cups finely shredded carrots
    1-3 1/2 oz coconut
    l/2 to 3/4 cup raisins

    Sift together dry ingredients an a large mixing bowl. Add sugar, oil and eggs and beat at medium speed. STIR in carrots, pineapple, walnuts, coconut and raisins. Turn into a greased pan and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until testing shows it's done.
    When cool dust with confection powder or icing.
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    Old 11-14-2017, 01:41 PM
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    Does have a receipe for carrot casserole
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