Lower Fat Carrot Cake - Totally Delicious! :-)

[Guest guest]

Sounds really delicious, Erica. And among raw food recipes, this would

probably pass as " low fat " . Analysis:

 

- Carrot cake only: 1863 calories, 36% fat

- Cake with frosting: 2781 calories, 41% fat.

 

Standard American Diet: 34-35% calories from fat.

 

Sounds like great party food!!!

 

Analysis courtesy of Laurie Masters, author of The 80/10/10 Success Guide,

one of the only nutrition-related references I use regularly. To learn more

about this publication, visit www.GreenSongPress.org. Laurie has provided a

screenshot of the Nutridiary analysis, pie chart and so forth. If anyone

would like to see it, please write to me privately at

Elchanan ... it won't post in this group, if I'm not

mistaken. I'll be happy to forward it to you.

 

Best,

Elchanan

_____

 

rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Erica

Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:24 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Lower Fat Carrot Cake - Totally Delicious! :-)

 

 

I didn't know if you all have this recipe. It is scrumptious and only has 1

cup of walnuts, the rest is fruit, veggies. I like that about it as raw

desserts can be too-much for many. :-)I make a crust for it sometimes, but

it's not necessary. Elchanan's date crust would be good with it, I'd

imagine. And the frosting is not necessary, either. :-) It is fast and

easy and SO GOOD! Enjoy! Erica

 

Cake

7 Whole Carrots

1 Cup Walnuts

1 Cup Dates, pitted and soaked

3/4 Cup Raisins, soaked for at least 1 hour.

1/2 teaspoon Ginger

1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon Cardamom

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg

 

1. Blend the carrots in a food processor until well grounded. Set aside in

a large bowl. 2. Blend the walnuts until fine, remove from the food

processor and place in the bowl of carrots. 3. Place dates in the food

processor and blend until smooth. 4. Add the cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon,

and ginger and blend well. 5. Add the mixture of dates and spices in the

food processor, add the carrot/walnut mixture in the food processor, and

blend the entire mixture until smooth. 6. Remove the mixture from the food

processor and stir in the raisins.

7. Place the mixture in a pie or cake pan.

 

Frosting

3 Tablespoons Honey or Agave

3 Tablespoons Orange Juice

1 Cup Cashews, soaked

 

Place the frosting ingredients in a blender or a Vita- Mix and blend until

smooth. After blending, spread the frosting on to the cake. Decorate the

cake by sprinkling cinnamon over the frosting.

 

Recipe by Alissa Cohen, author of Living on Live Food

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

This IS a really good recipe. Alissa has all sorts of wonderful recipes in her

book Living on

Live Food. Cheers, Dana

[Guest guest]

> Sounds like great party food!!!

 

Or Holiday food. It's just tasty and light. And that's pretty cool you

did the nutritional breakdown. You can tell it's " lower fat " for a raw

recipe b/c it doesn't sit in you like a brick. LOL! Erica Totally try

this one out! :-)