Skinni Carrot Cake

Skinni Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is such a scrumptious treat! This carrot cake is not only light and fluffy, it is also rich, and so you don’t need much to get your fill. It doesn’t hurt that it is extremely low in calories, and topped off with lip smacking cream cheese icing!

Ingredients-Carrot Cake

1.       1 ½ cups of shredded carrots (matchstick carrots)-chopped up

2.       ½ cup of Pillsbury Sugar Free Yellow cake mix

3.       ½ cup of whole wheat flour

4.        ½ cup Splenda

5.       1 tablespoon Brown Sugar Splenda

6.       1  ½ teaspoon cinnamon

7.       1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

8.       ½ teaspoon nutmeg

9.       ½ teaspoon baking soda (or 1 teaspoon baking powder-whichever you have on hand)

10.   ¾ cup of canned pure pumpkin

11.   2 egg whites

12.   1 snack pack of natural apple sauce (or ½ cup)

13.   1 mini pack raisins (or 1 heaping tablespoon)

Ingredients-Cream Cheese Frosting

1.       ¼ cup of fat free cream cheese

2.       ½ cup of fat free Greek yogurt

3.       1 teaspoon vanilla

4.       ½ cup Splenda

Directions

1.       Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.

2.       Combine all of the dry ingredients in a bowl (1-9).

3.       Combine the pumpkin, egg whites, apple sauce, and raisins.

4.       Gradually add the dry mix to the pumpkin mixture.

5.       Using a tablespoon, spoon the cake mix into a pre-sprayed mini cup cake pan (24).

6.       Cook the carrot cakes for 20-25 minutes.

7.       While the carrot cakes are cooking, combine all of the cream cheese frosting ingredients together and mix (I use a hand mixer to make sure that it comes out nice and smooth).

8.       Once the carrot cakes have cooled, add the icing evenly. I use the zip lock bag trick, not only is it less messy, but I think the cakes turn out prettier!

9.       Enjoy this delightful desert!

*At the moment, I am kind of digging the mini cup cakes (because honestly it helps me not to eat as much), so for one of the crazy delicious carrot cakes it is ONLY 40 calories. No joke and that included the icing. So if you make bigger muffins (12 servings) it is only 80 calories. When I called these Skinni Carrot Cakes, I meant it!

If you don't eat it, I will!