Recipe: Yummy Healthy Carrot Cake

Healthy Carrot Cake.

You can have Healthy Carrot Cake using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Healthy Carrot Cake

1. You need 4 of eggs.
2. It's 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
3. You need 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
4. It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. It's 2 cup of whole wheat pastry flour.
6. It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
8. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
9. It's 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
10. Prepare 3 cup of grated carrots.
11. It's 1 cup of chopped pecans.
12. You need of FROSTING.
13. You need 1/4 cup of butter, softened.
14. Prepare 1 of (8 oz. ) package Neufchatel cheese, softened.
15. Prepare 2 cup of confectioners' sugar.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
17. Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans.

Healthy Carrot Cake instructions

1. COOK: 1 hr.
2. READY: 2-1/2 hr.
3. Preheat oven to 350 ° F. Grease and flour a 9x13-inch pan..
4. In a bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar, & 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, & cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan..
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely..
6. FROSTING: In a medium bowl, combine butter, Neufchatel cheese, confectioners' sugar, & 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake..