Carrot Cake $4.25

I made this cake yesterday as kind of a healthy treat for Valentines Day and I had planned on frosting it with a cream cheese frosting. Before I could frost it, half of it was gone. My son came home from school with a friend and cut right in...twice. He and his friend loved it. The most exciting part about that was the health factor. I did what I usually do when cooking(sometimes baking) I looked up a bunch of recipes and took ideas from all of them, and then tweaked it. Sometimes that works in baking and sometimes it doesnt. I made banana bread a few weeks ago and the first batch was horrid. I used applesauce and honey for my sweetness, and it just wasnt sweet enough. This time, I cut out about 60% of the sugar, all the oil, and the egg yokes, and added applesauce and an extra egg white, and lots of walnuts and raisin, and the results were....well, Ill be baking this again soon, because its all gone. ooops, did I mention that I used carrot puree babyfood for the carrot? worked like a charm.

Ingredients
2 1/4 cups flour .50
3/4 cup sugar .25
3 egg whites.45
2 tsp vanilla .20
2 tsp baking powder.10
4 oz carrot babyfood .80
4 ounces applesauce .64
1 tablespoon cinnamon .10
1/4 cup walnuts .66
1/2 cup raisins .55

mix sugar, egg whites, applesauce, and carrot babyfood in bowl
in seperate bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon
mix together add raisins and walnuts

place in two baking bread loaf pans
bake at 350 for 45 minutes, or until for comes back clean when inserted to top of bread