Easy Carrot Cake with Maya Whole Wheat Carrot Cake Mix

Okay, this is the carrot cake I'm talking about in "It's Baking Today" post.  

The first time I baked a carrot cake was in Japan. It was made from scratch and it turned out sooo good! I have just forgotten where I got the recipe. My husband and I munched on while watching Junior Master Chef Pinoy Edition. Actually that TV program influenced me a lot to have much interest on baking and cooking. Kahiya naman sa mga batang 'yon. Haha! 

Anyway, I was in the "baking" section of the grocery story to buy some ingredients and pancake mix when my I eye caught the Maya Whole Wheat Carrot Cake mix. I stared at it for how many long minutes (haha!) and then placed it on my cart. But this carrot mix thing was never touched and just hiding inside the cabinet for about a month or two. And at long last, I was able to bake it! As if, it's so hard to bake this carrot mix like I need to sweat a lot to make, roll, punch a dough from scratch or mince a lot of onions and garlic and chop a lot of vegetables and other ingredients... blah blah blah! I know you get me. Haha!

I appreciate the packaging that contains "health facts" like this. Not only I become informed, it gives me an assurance and "go-ahead" pat at the shoulder that I'm cooking or baking a healthy food. Good job Maya!

Here's the baking instructions, easy-peasy:

The first time I tried to make a carrot cake frosting, I didn't have cream cheese. So, I substituted a low fat, unflavored yogurt. I was not proud of it. In short, "palpak!" Haha!

Mix all the ingredients according to the direction:

Baking carrot cake and oatmeal raisin cookies at the same time! 

Tada! Now, I used a real low fat cream cheese, not just a substitute! I have a confession to make, I cut the cream frosting to just half the ingredients. It's my first time to use cream cheese so I was playing safe! You know in case, I was "palpak" again, there's still some cream cheese left. Haha! And I was so excited to spread it on the carrot cake so even if the cake is still hot, I poured the cream frosting at the top. So, it gave a "melting" frosting. Labo! Haha!

I knew that the carrot cake was delicious when Yaya, my sister-in-law and others who ate it said it was really yummy! You know what, this carrot cake gets even more delicious habang tumatagal inside the ref! Worth every cent!