Carrot cake calories?

niamh211
niamh211 Posts: 150 Member
edited November 19 in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone know how many calories would be in a 100g slice of carrot cake?

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,701 Member
    Much more than you might imagine.

    This is a Tasmania-wide bakery which I've gone to several times. My favourite choice is the carrot cake ... or it was until I had a look at the calorie count in comparison with other selections:
    http://www.banjos.com.au/products/sweets/cakes/

    As you can see, the serving size is 116 grams and it is 2500 kj (to translate kj into calories, divide by 4 ... approximately). So that's approx. 625 cal.
    http://www.banjos.com.au/our-products/carrot-cake/

    It is either the highest item on the menu ... or one of the highest.
  • niamh211
    niamh211 Posts: 150 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Much more than you might imagine.

    This is a Tasmania-wide bakery which I've gone to several times. My favourite choice is the carrot cake ... or it was until I had a look at the calorie count in comparison with other selections:
    http://www.banjos.com.au/products/sweets/cakes/

    As you can see, the serving size is 116 grams and it is 2500 kj (to translate kj into calories, divide by 4 ... approximately). So that's approx. 625 cal.
    http://www.banjos.com.au/our-products/carrot-cake/

    It is either the highest item on the menu ... or one of the highest.

    How come every where I look they are different though I just choice the generic and it says 360
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Carrot cake has much more oil than other cakes.
  • slaite1
    slaite1 Posts: 1,307 Member
    niamh211 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Much more than you might imagine.

    This is a Tasmania-wide bakery which I've gone to several times. My favourite choice is the carrot cake ... or it was until I had a look at the calorie count in comparison with other selections:
    http://www.banjos.com.au/products/sweets/cakes/

    As you can see, the serving size is 116 grams and it is 2500 kj (to translate kj into calories, divide by 4 ... approximately). So that's approx. 625 cal.
    http://www.banjos.com.au/our-products/carrot-cake/

    It is either the highest item on the menu ... or one of the highest.

    How come every where I look they are different though I just choice the generic and it says 360

    Unless it's a "healthy" carrot cake that's probably low. Does it have icing? I would just add 500.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Depends on the ingredients.

    For example, day before yesterday I made some Betty Crocker Carrot cake (albeit no icing, I was lazy). I substituted the oil for applesauce and used 2 eggs instead of 3.

    100g of that was 257 calories.

    So yeah... it really depends on the recipe/ingredients.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,701 Member
    edited May 2015
    niamh211 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Much more than you might imagine.

    This is a Tasmania-wide bakery which I've gone to several times. My favourite choice is the carrot cake ... or it was until I had a look at the calorie count in comparison with other selections:
    http://www.banjos.com.au/products/sweets/cakes/

    As you can see, the serving size is 116 grams and it is 2500 kj (to translate kj into calories, divide by 4 ... approximately). So that's approx. 625 cal.
    http://www.banjos.com.au/our-products/carrot-cake/

    It is either the highest item on the menu ... or one of the highest.

    How come every where I look they are different though I just choice the generic and it says 360

    360 seems low ... unless it didn't have the icing. If it was just the cake ... maybe. But I think that icing throws it up and over 500.

    I made carrot cake with cream cheese icing for the first time in January, and WOW is it ever full of oil and sugar, and the icing is cream cheese with a massive amount of sugar. Or at least the recipe I used was. I wouldn't assume that a 100 gram piece was any less than 500 and probably more like 600 or more.

    The carrot cake at Banjos (linked in my first post) was similar to the one I baked ... rich and moist with a decent layer of cream cheese icing.

    But if your recipe substituted oil for applesauce, etc. like another poster mentioned ... then I could see it being lower. Or if it didn't have that icing.


    I've noticed that the "Generic" choices are often a bit low. Just today, I wanted to enter a small bowl of apple crumble, which had very little "crumble", and was looking for a good guess at how many calories that might be. I selected Generic to check the nutrition details, and it told me that the amount of apple crumble I had was about 80 cal. Hmmm. Nice ... but don't think so. That doesn't seem at all realistic. I went with one that was about 275.

  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    niamh211 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Much more than you might imagine.

    This is a Tasmania-wide bakery which I've gone to several times. My favourite choice is the carrot cake ... or it was until I had a look at the calorie count in comparison with other selections:
    http://www.banjos.com.au/products/sweets/cakes/

    As you can see, the serving size is 116 grams and it is 2500 kj (to translate kj into calories, divide by 4 ... approximately). So that's approx. 625 cal.
    http://www.banjos.com.au/our-products/carrot-cake/

    It is either the highest item on the menu ... or one of the highest.

    How come every where I look they are different though I just choice the generic and it says 360

    because it's going to depend on who made the carrot cake...my carrot cake might have more or less calories than your carrot cake depending on how much oil I used, how much sugar I used, etc.

    if it's homemade you should use the recipe builder. if it's from a bakery you could look to see if that bakery is in the database...otherwise than that, just pick one...at that point it's just a guess anyway.
  • niamh211
    niamh211 Posts: 150 Member
    Oh I dnt wana eat it now cas its too high in calories
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    You can split the cake in half too.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    You can split the cake in half if you want to reduce cals.
  • niamh211
    niamh211 Posts: 150 Member
    spacequiztime wrote: »
    You can split the cake in half if you want to reduce cals.
    Aw it's only one square potion not a full cake
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,701 Member
    niamh211 wrote: »
    spacequiztime wrote: »
    You can split the cake in half if you want to reduce cals.
    Aw it's only one square potion not a full cake

    Yes, well ... for me, right now, as much as I love it, carrot cake is out of the question ... unless I put in a really good cycling effort.


    Although I am kind of interested in a lower calorie recipe ...

  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    niamh211 wrote: »
    Oh I dnt wana eat it now cas its too high in calories

    It's one of the foods that is really not worth the calories for me.
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