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Preheat oven to 350º F. Spray an 8x8x2- inch pan with cooking spray.

Sift the flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a small bowl.

In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar until smooth. Stir in the dry ingredients and the chopped walnuts until combined.

Insert the shredding drum. Shred the carrots directly into mixing bowl. Use a spatula to stir in the raisins with the carrots.

Pour into the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 to 45 minutes. Cool in the pan. Prepare the frosting.

Insert the grating drum into processor. Grate the white chocolate and reserve in mixing bowl. Heat the heavy cream in a small saucepan until it is about to come to a boil. Pour hot cream over white chocolate to melt and mix together with a hand mixer until cool. Add the cream cheese and mix until soft. Sift confectioners' sugar over cream cheese mixture and mix until smooth. Mix in vanilla. Spread the frosting on the cooled cake.

Nutritional information per serving:

Calories 579 (49% from fat) • carb. 69g • pro. 6g

fat 33g • sat. fat 9g • chol. 75mg • sod. 319mg

calc. 80mg • fiber 2g

Individual Apple Galettes

Makes 8 galettes

sheet puff pastry (about 2 ounces) small Granny Smith apples (about 4 ounces each), peeled, cored, and sliced in half

2tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

2tablespoons cinnamon sugar

1large egg

¼cup apricot preserves flour for rolling pastry

Preheat oven to 450°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

Roll out puff pastry very thin. Cut into six rectangles about 3¼ inches x 4 inches.

Insert slicing drum into Cuisinart® PrepExpress™ Handheld Food Processor. Slice apple halves. Fan about 6 apple slices in the center of the puff pastry rectangles, leaving about ¼-inch space on all sides. Cut ¼-inch wide strips out of the puff pastry scraps in order to reinforce the tart borders.

Brush the apples with the melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Beat egg with 1 tablespoon of water and brush egg wash on the exposed pastry.

Bake in preheated oven for about 20 minutes until golden.

While tarts are baking, heat preserves with

2 tablespoons of water in a small saucepan until hot and melted. Once tarts are removed from the oven brush with apricot glaze.

Nutritional information per serving:

Calories 133 (36% from fat) • carb. 21g • pro. 1g

fat 6g • sat. fat 2g • chol. 34mg • sod. 36mg

calc. 8mg • fiber 2g

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Cuisinart HFP-300 manual Individual Apple Galettes

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