Lighter carrot cake with Greek yogurt icing recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

Lighter carrot cake with Greek yogurt icing recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

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Apple sauce and yogurt take the place of butter or oil in this lower calorie carrot cake recipe, topped with a creamy but tangy icing

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Ingredients

  • vegetable oil, to grease
  • 1 orange
  • 3 medium eggs
  • 100g light brown sugar
  • 200g Greek-style yogurt
  • 150g apple sauce
  • 150g self-raising flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • a pinch of ground cloves
  • 150g grated carrot
  • 35g raisins
  • 25g pistachio kernels, roughly chopped
  • 150g light cream cheese (we used Philadelphia)
  • 50g Greek-style natural yogurt
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar

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