Carrot cake with cream cheese

This recipe is from my Eat Great lose weight cookbook! I am not really aiming for weight loss anymore but I still want great tasting treats without the added calories.  The majority of the recipes in this book has been really good and this one is too.

Ingredients:

2 cups shredded carrots (about 2 or 3 large carrots)
3/4 cup of sugar
1 can 4 oz crushed pineapple
1 jar of carrot puree (this can be found in the baby food section or you can google how to make your own.. It was easy.

4 large egg whites or 1/2 cup of liquid egg substitute
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups cake flour
1 1/4 cups oat bran
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 package ( 8 oz) fat free cream cheese, softened.

Preheat oven to 425 F. Coat a 9 inch round cake pan with non stick spray.

In a large bowl, mix carrots, 1/2 cup sugar, pineapple with juice, carrot puree, egg whites, vanilla extract, and salt.

In another large bowl, combine flour, oat bran, baking soda, and cinnomon. Fold in carrot mixture just until combined.

Pour into the prepared pan and bake 30 minutes, or until lightly browned and firm to the touch. Cool in the pan on rack for ten minutes. Remove from the pan.

In a medium bowl, with an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and remaining 1/4 cup of sugar. Spread evenly over cake.

Serves 12.  164 calories. , 7 grams protein, 27 grams carbs, 1 g fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 361 mg sodium, 2 g fiber

 Diet exchanges. 0 milk, 1 veg, 1 fruit, 1 bread, 0 meat, 0 fat

This recipe will for sure be a keeper and it was so easy to make.

Chocolate Chunk cookies

This recipe is brought to you by one of my favorite cookbooks called Eat Great. Lose Weight.  I was really cravnig something sweet and looked thru my cookbook. I love it when I see something that looks good and I actually have everything to make for it.

I will make this one again.

Ingredients

1 cup of unbleached or all purpose flour
1 cup of whole- wheat flour
1/2 cup of quick cooking oats
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of packed brown sugar
1/3 cup of butter or margarine
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons of 1% milk.  (i used 2% cause it's what I buy)
1 teaspoon of Vanilla extract
6 ounces of semi sweet chocolate chips.  It mentions chunks of chocolate can be hard to find so use normal ones will be good too.

Preheat oven to 375 F, Coat two baking sheets with non stick spray.

In a large bowlm combine both flours, oates, baking soda and salt.

In another bowl, combine sugar, brown sugarm butter, egg whites, milk and vanilla extract.. I personally felt like the cookie dough was dry so next time I will melt the butter.

Add flour mixture and stire until moistened. Stir in chocolates.

Drop by rounded teaspoons, 2 inches apart, on the prepared cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until lightly browned by the edges.  Remove cookies to racks to cool.

This recipe makes 48 cookies but I only got 47. :(  The cookbook says 77 calories per cookie but my recipe builder came out to 68 calories.

These were very tasty right out of the oven.