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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook vegan carrot cake (& frosting) using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan Carrot Cake (& Frosting):
- Prepare Cake:
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups flour (Half spelt, half all-purpose flour)
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 3 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 cup applesauce
- Make ready 1 cup almond milk
- Take 2 tsp vanilla
- Take 1 cup cane sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup (melted) coconut or canola oil
- Take 2 cups grated carrots, medium-packed
- Take Frosting:
- Make ready 1/2 cup raw macadamia nuts (soaked, drained, and rinsed)
- Make ready 1/2 cup raw cashews (soaked, drained, and rinsed)
- Get 1/4 cup almond milk
- Make ready 1/4 cup maple syrup
- Take 2 tbsp coconut oil
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Take 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
Unlike with eggless vegan white cake, where replacing the structure from eggs is important, carrot cakes are more forgiving. Simply removing the eggs and adding some extra leavening does the trick. Vegan Carrot Cake Recipe Tips Grate your carrots finely. Finely grated carrots meld seamlessly into the cake, while larger pieces create a chunkier, less uniform texture.
Steps to make Vegan Carrot Cake (& Frosting):
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the applesauce, almond milk, vanilla, sugar and oil.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet ingredients.
- Fold in the carrots and stir until just combined.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cake cool completely before frosting.
- Make the frosting: combine all frosting ingredients into a high speed blender. Blend until very smooth for 1 to 2 minutes or more, scraping down the sides occasionally. You can add an extra tablespoon of milk if necessary to get your blade moving.
- Chill frosting for at least 30 minutes before spreading on the cake.
- Store frosted cake in the fridge.
Vegan Carrot Cake Recipe Tips Grate your carrots finely. Finely grated carrots meld seamlessly into the cake, while larger pieces create a chunkier, less uniform texture. For tender, cohesive cake slices, grate the carrots on the small holes of a box grater or on the smallest setting of the grating attachment on your food processor. For this vegan carrot cake, you'll need two mixing bowls and cake pan (s). In the first bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
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