Recipe Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves

Angela M - Garden Tea Cakes and Me Saturday, January 05, 2013

Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves

I always think baking with any vegetable to be healthy, well for me at least. So my Carrot and Sultana mini loaves are made using carrots, sultanas and low fat cream cheese, I’ve done my best to cut back on the extra calories. Normally when baking Carrot Cake I would use vegetable oil but as the cupboard was bare I used, most successfully, light olive oil. I also did not have enough carrot so added sultana's.

This recipe is adapted from a Carrot and Orange recipe in a Woman's Weekly cookbook. It also gave me a chance to use my Russian Doll measuring cups.

Recipe - Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves

Makes - 9 mini loaves or 12 cupcakes

Temp - Fan Oven 160 degrees

Ingredients

2/3 cup light olive oil or vegetable oil

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 1/4 cup grated carrot

1/4 cup sultanas

1 3/4 cups self raising flour
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon mixed spice

Frosting

2/3 cup of light cream cheese
1/4 cup icing sugar

Put the oil, sugar and eggs into a bowl and mix with an electric whisk, until thick and creamy.
Add the carrots, flour, bicarbonate of soda and mixed spice. Stir well until all ingredients are combined.
Divide the mixture into your mini loaf cases or standard paper cakes.
Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
Leave in baking tray for 5 minutes before placing on a wire rack to cool.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Place the cream cheese and icing sugar into a bowl, beat together with an electric whisk until smooth. Spread the frosting onto the loaves or cakes only once they have fully cooled.

Tip - Using the low fat cream cheese you may find the frosting slightly runny in consistency, it may help if you place it in the fridge to chill before spreading onto your cakes. Or of course you could use full fat cream cheese.

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This is my entry into January's Calendar Cakes Challenge the theme this month being New Year, New You! Calendar Cakes is a challenge hosted by Dolly Bakes and Laura Loves Cakes.

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20 comments:

What's Baking??6 January 2013 at 07:02
Healthy and yet so tempting. Delicious recipe.
Laura Loves Cakes6 January 2013 at 17:39
Yum...I'm rather partial to sultanas in bakes and I do love individual cakes...so I'm pretty sure I'd love these...they look great...and with cream cheese frosting...irresistable! Thanks for entering them into Calendar Cakes :-)
Jacqueline Meldrum6 January 2013 at 18:06
They look wonderful! Can I ask you where you got the mini loaf cases?
Hello6 January 2013 at 18:46
Healthy and looks delicious x
krishna7 January 2013 at 21:59
i love baking.. almost alternate day i bake a cake.. i wil surely try this one..plz tell me what is sultana..
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Choclette8 January 2013 at 07:09
Those little loaf cases are very cute as are the loaves you've put in them. Always good to get the new year off to a healthy start ;-)
Maggie8 January 2013 at 17:00
Carrot and Sultanas go well together and these homely little loaves look very pretty.
Mich Piece of Cake9 January 2013 at 06:25
What a delicious loaf. The sound of it already calls to me. I love how healthy it is...
Hazel9 January 2013 at 18:06
Yummy! Looks so good. I love how it looks soooo... good but is healthy :) They do look very pretty :) *waves hello* from a new follower, Hazel x
Amelia10 January 2013 at 06:43
Hi, awesome mini loaves. Love the frosting, look really good.
I'm your new follower. Have a nice day.