Carrot Cakes
Dateline: 02/02/99Ah, carrot cakes, don't you just love them? I do. In fact, I just took one to a friend who had a baby girl last week. We were joking about how I knew she would rather eat dessert than regular food. That's when the realization hit me. Carrot cake is more than just another dessert full of empty calories.
Think about it. What is in a carrot cake? Carrots are a vegetable. Most recipes also call for a fruit like pineapple. So now you have a vegetable and a fruit. Cream cheese provides protein through milk. Nuts provide protein, too. Flour is the basis for bread. What's left but butter and sugar. Both of those are important to our diet, too. A recipe for carrot cake sounds like it was created with the Food Pyramid in mind.
So when you make (and eat) your next carrot cake, keep in mind, you're eating a healthy dessert!
Enjoy!
Barbara's Carrot Cake
This cake is cooked in the microwave.
Carrot Cake Muffins
22 News just confirms my point that carrot cakes are really more like a quick bread.
Carrot Pineapple Cake
This cake, from Baker Boullanger, is make in a Bundt pan.
Chocolate-Orange Carrot Cake
The Main Ingredient offers this recipe with a chocolate chip cream cheese filling and a fudge frosting. This is definately not your typical carrot cake.
Fruity Carrot Cake
This recipe calls for macadamias and is from Macamamia Miravalles S.A.
Graceland Carrot Cake
Dried carrots are used in this recipe from Monitor Sugar.
Mom's Cake
Ono Recipes offers this recipe that calls for coffee in the frosting.
Prevention's Carrot Cake
This recipe is very low fat. Applesauce, pineapple, and raisins are some of the ingredients in this cake.
Tropical Carrot Cake
This is my (and my mother's before me) tried and true recipe. There's pineapple in the cake and coconut in the frosting and nuts in both.
