For many years, carrot cupcakes have not gone out of fashion. They have an unusual spicy taste that can be emphasized with nuts, vanilla or fruits. A simple and quick recipe gives great pleasure to the hostess during cooking.

Step by step recipe

How to make Lean Carrot Cake:

1. Carrots need to be washed, peeled and chopped with a grater or food processor;
2. Finely chop the walnuts with a knife or you can use a coffee grinder. After that, fry in a pan without adding oil for five minutes;
3. In a bowl, mix flour, sugar and baking powder. Add oil and water;
4. Then add carrots and nuts. Mix the contents of the bowl well;
5. Put the resulting dough into the prepared form. You need to fill it halfway, because the dough will rise a lot during baking;
6. Preheat the oven to 160◦ and bake the cupcakes for ninety minutes.

Baking in a multicooker

Ingredients:

• 5 large carrots;
• 3 bananas;
• 250 grams of fructose;
• 500 grams of flour;
• baking powder;
• vegetable oil - ½ cup;
• crushed nuts - ½ cup;
• raisins or dried apricots - ½ cup;
• ground ginger - ½ cup;
• salt.

Cooking time: 120 minutes.

Calorie content: 275 kcal / 100 grams.

How to cook lean carrot cake in a slow cooker:

1. Peel the carrots and rub on a fine grater. You should get about four glasses;
2. Using a blender or mixer in a bowl, you need to beat bananas with fructose. Add oil;
3. Sift flour and mix in a separate plate with baking powder;
4. Add spice flour and salt to bananas. Mix well;
5. Put carrots, nuts and raisins in a bowl. Stir until you get a homogeneous consistency;
6. Grease the walls of the bowl with oil and shift the dough;
7. Select the "Baking" mode and cook for about ninety minutes without opening the lid;
8. When the pastry is ready, it does not need to be pulled out immediately: it needs to be allowed to cool.

Lenten apple and carrot muffins in molds

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of apples;
• 2 large carrots;
• ½ orange;
• 150 milliliters of vegetable oil;
• 18 grams of granulated sugar;
• 240 grams of flour.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Calorie content: 180 kcal / 100 grams.

How to make lean cupcakes in molds:

Lean Carrot Muffins with Apples and Nuts

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 150 grams of apples;
• 170 grams of carrots;
• baking powder - 1 sachet;
• 1 teaspoon of vanillin;
• 120 grams of vegetable oil;
• 50 grams of walnuts;
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Calorie content: 190 kcal / 100 grams.

Cooking method:

1. Peel apples and remove seeds, grate;
2. Peel and grate the carrot. If you get a lot of juice, you can squeeze it out a little;
3. In a bowl, mix carrots, apples, butter, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Mix the contents until smooth;
4. Mix baking powder with flour and add to bowl. Mix;
5. Chop the walnuts and add to the dough;
6. Fill the pre-oiled molds with dough by about ¾;
7. The oven is preheated to 180◦. The muffins will be ready in about twenty minutes.

1. For the dough, you can use wholemeal flour: it has a specific smell of nuts. Flour is not suitable for all types of pastries, but in this case it will only add some zest to pastries;
2. Carrot cake takes a long time to bake because of the high humidity. Its readiness can be checked with a wooden toothpick: if it is dry, then the cake is ready;
3. As molds for baking, you can use molds for ordinary cupcakes with a small hole in the middle;
4. For a cake, flour can not be sifted: just use a whisk to enrich it with oxygen;
5. In a bowl with beaten bananas, add flour and remaining products;
6. The multicooker bowl needs to be slightly greased with sunflower oil and put the resulting dough;
7. By selecting the “Baking” mode, cook the cake for about an hour and a half without opening the lid.
8. For apple-carrot cake, it is best to take sweet and sour hard apples;
9. For the filling, you can use any kind of nuts;
10. Carrots can be used in any form: fresh and frozen;
11. Cooking time depends on the size of the cake. If you bake in a large form, therefore, the dough will be baked longer;
12. It is best to use brown sugar for cake. It gives them a unique taste. And the cake stays fresh and soft for a long time.

Lean carrot muffins are prepared very quickly and from products that are a must-have in the refrigerator of every home. Therefore, the arrival of unexpected guests will not take the hostess by surprise. In just thirty minutes, you can bake amazing cupcakes that will be appreciated at the highest level. And for those who are fasting or dieting, carrot muffins will be an indispensable dessert!

I make cupcakes and other sweet carrot pastries quite often, and you can see the recipes on the site. When the juicer appeared, cake from the preparation of carrot juice began to be used for baking, in which it is necessary to add a little water, otherwise it is too dry.

I was also interested in the recipe for a lean version of carrot cake, i.e. without adding eggs to the dough. I prepared two options: from grated carrots and from carrot cake after squeezing the juice. Both options are delicious, but they differ in structure. From the cake, the lean cake turned out to be less lush, more moist, with a slightly sticky crumb. On the basis of grated carrots - the cake is more fluffy and with a loose structure.

To prepare a lean version of carrot cake, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

I will show the preparation of the dough using the example of carrot cake moistened with water, and it is prepared from grated carrots in the same way, only without water.

Mix the carrots chopped in any way with sugar, a pinch of salt and odorless refined vegetable oil.

Add a serving of flour, cinnamon, baking powder, slaked soda and, if desired, vanilla. Soda makes the dough fluffy, i.e. acts at the stage of mixing, and baking powder - at the stage of baking.

In addition to nuts (here - walnuts) and dried fruits (here - steamed raisins), you can add seeds to the carrot dough. Sometimes it's linen, sometimes sunflower, and this time... hemp. In my experience, these seeds are best crushed, otherwise they feel too hard in baked goods (muffins, cookies, tortillas or bread).

Place the finished dough into the mold. This is what carrot cake looks like.

And such a dough is obtained from grated carrots:

Bake lean carrot cake in the oven at 180-200 degrees. The time depends on the size of the form, or rather, on the height of the dough in it, as well as on the properties of the oven. Focus on the time of 45 minutes and then check the readiness.

This is the result of a carrot cake made from cake.

This is a ready-made lean carrot cake.

Take note of both compositions of lean carrot cake.

Happy tea!

2017-12-26

Hello my dear readers! I started a real New Year and Christmas season. You need to do a lot to celebrate your favorite holidays calmly. I look at the blog often, but for a short time. Catch a lean carrot cake - a recipe simple but worthy of your attention!

I know that many of my regular readers keep the Christmas post. But on New Year's Eve, you want something tasty, including sweets. For such staunch comrades, I have a recipe for a spicy carrot lean cake in store.

The base of the cake is grated sweet carrots. It should be rubbed on a good old grater - a box that used to live on the shelf of every Soviet kitchen. The works of the righteous are only a few minutes, but the magnificent result is worth little effort.

I tried to grind carrots with a blender, a food processor - not that! Newfangled kitchen "gadgets" destroy the structure of the carrot, but the good old grater just finely cuts. Just what we need!

Sunny, bright holiday carrot cake will brighten up your lean existence and add mood. Do we remember that the day went up? Therefore, we leave the blues to the best enemies. For business!

Lean carrot cake - recipe with photo

Dough Ingredients

• 300 g flour.
• 150 g white crystalline sugar.
• 150 g brown sugar.
• 400 g carrots (gross weight).
• One teaspoon spice mix (cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, star anise, ginger, coriander).
• 2 g vanillin. Four teaspoons of grated orange zest.
• 100-120 g chopped walnut kernels.
• 200 g raisins.
• 200 ml refined sunflower oil.
• Two coffee spoons of citric acid.
• Four coffee spoons of drinking soda.
• A pinch of salt.

Lemon Glaze Ingredients

• Half a glass of powdered sugar.
• One and a half - two tablespoons of lemon juice.
• Three tablespoons of boiling water.

How to cook

How to make Lemon Glaze

1. Mix powdered sugar with lemon juice, boiling water.

Very quick, easy, delicious carrot cake. We often cook it not only on fasting days. The recipe has taken root with us so much that sometimes we just bake it in the evening for morning coffee.

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