Carrot Cake: The Vegan Recipe

Are you crazy about traditional carrot cake? This animal-free version is just as delicious: it'll amaze you with its perfect balance of flavor and lightness.

vegan carrot cake recipe
  • Time di Preparation: 15 minutes
  • Time di cooking: 40 minutes
  • difficulty: Bassa

How to make vegan carrot cake

As good as the one our grandmother used to make for a snack: a vitamin-packed treat, mouth-watering! Healthy and delicious, carrot cake is practically impossible to say no to. After seeing how to make it in two truly delicious versions, with grapefruit and almonds, today we're sharing a recipe for vegan carrot cake, a perfect dessert for those following an animal-free diet.

This vegan carrot cake recipe will amaze you with its extreme simplicity and inimitable flavor. With its perfect balance , it's healthy , delicious , and just the right amount of colorful . Did you also know that cooking carrots increases the bioavailability of beta-carotene ? Yet another reason to make this delicious dessert.

Here's how to prepare a vegan carrot cake , enriched with almonds and orange :

Ingredients

  • 150 gr flour 0
  • 100 g wholemeal flour
  • 200 g finely chopped almonds
  • 80 g whole cane sugar
  • 30 ml corn oil
  • 1 glass of carrot and orange juice
  • 3 carrots
  • Grated orange zest
  • Half a sachet of cream of tartar yeast
  • Dark chocolate flakes to taste (optional)

Preparation

  • Finely chop the almonds with a couple of spoons of brown sugar.
  • Mix the two types of flour.
  • Add the almonds, baking powder, sugar, and grated orange zest.
  • Prepare the carrot and orange juice, approximately 300 ml.
  • Grate the carrots and at this point you can proceed with preparing the cake.
  • Put all the dry ingredients together and mix, gradually adding the oil and the carrot and orange juice.
  • Mix well and then add the carrots.
  • If you like, also add the dark chocolate in flakes (20 to 50 g depending on how much you love it!).
  • Grease and flour a cake tin with a diameter of 20/22 cm, pour in the mixture obtained which must have a soft consistency and bake for approximately 40 minutes at 180 C°.
  • To further decorate and sweeten the cake, simply sprinkle generously with powdered sugar. But we love it without it!

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