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Healthy Carrot Cake GF, vegan-friendly

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Course: for 8-inch baking form
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • Dry Ingredients:
  • 1 cup old-fashioned organic oats use gluten-free if prefer
  • ¾ - 1 cup pecans walnuts
  • ½ cup coconut flakes
  • ½ cup quinoa flour oat flour, brown rice flour, amaranth flour
  • 2 big handfuls of raisins
  • ¼ cup coconut sugar
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • + spices:
  • ½ tsp cinnamon or more!
  • ¼ tsp ginger powder
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp powdered cloves
  • ***
  • Wet Ingredients:
  • Juice with pulp from 1 orange
  • ¼ cup coconut oil
  • 4 shredded carrots
  • Splash of vanilla extract
  • Splash of water only if the batter consistency looks dry
  • ***
  • Icing Ingredients
  • About ½ can of full-fat coconut milk chilled in the fridge for a few hours so you need the only hard part - coconut cream
  • 1 tbsp organic honey or maple syrup
  • Juice of ½ lemon
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Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 F degrees.
  2. Place nuts, oats and coconut flakes in a blender or food processor and process until coarse flour (takes a few seconds). Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
  3. Add the rest of the dry ingredients, stir everything well.
  4. Add shredded carrots to the mix.
  5. Place on orange into a blender and process for a few seconds until juicy pure.
  6. Add the rest of wet ingredients into mixing bowl with dry ingredient and carrots. Stir everything well, add a splash of water if needed, then pour the batter into a cake pan (use parchment paper).
  7. Bake for 40 minutes. Try to stick a toothpick in the center of the cake, when nothing sticks on it the cake is ready. Let it cool.
  8. Meanwhile, stir or blend together icing ingredients (make sure to use chilled part of coconut milk) until well combined. Place icing in the fridge - it should have a sour cream consistency.
  9. Add the icing when the cake is completely cooled of. Decorate each piece with roughly chopped pecans and lemon zest. Enjoy!
  10. Store in an airtight glass container in the fridge for a week.