Recipe: Carrot Cake - #vegan #gf #gluten-free

Caption of Carrot Cake. Image by Edward Daniel (c).

Edward Daniel Carrot Cake came about because I wanted to create something luscious for everyone to enjoy. This gluten-free dish uses a combination of millet,… Recipes Carrot Cake European #

Serves: 12 Prep Time: 45 mins Cooking Time: 25 mins 25 mins

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

100g millet
100g buckwheat
50g tapioca flour
1tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
200ml olive oil
50g coconut oil
150g raw unrefined cane sugar
1 orange, juice
2 cardamom pods, seeds
½ nutmeg, grated
1 tsp cinnamon, ground (or small piece of cinnamon stick ground)
1 inch ginger
300g carrots, grated
100g raisins
100g walnuts
For icing
125g cashew nuts
50g filtered water
20ml lemon juice
75g coconut oil

Instructions

To make the icing, in a blender pulse the cashew nuts, water, lemon juice, and coconut oil. Place in the fridge overnight.
Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 180 degrees Celsius or if you have a fan oven 160 degrees Celsius.
Line a cake tin with olive oil and set to one side.
In a food processor, grind the buckwheat and millet granules with the tapioca flour, baking soda and salt. Set to one side in a large mixing bowl.
Place the nutmeg, cinnamon and cardamom seeds into a chopper and whizz till fine. Add these ingredients to the mixing bowl together with the carrots, raisins and walnuts.
Destone the dates and put into a food processor with the oil and orange juice and leave to one side. Stir this wet mixture into the dry. Combine well and dish into the cake tin.
Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes until the crust turns into a light golden colour.
Remove from heat and set to one side until cool.
Layer the icing over the cake over each layer with a spatula.

Notes

By Edward Daniel, Vegan Chef and Former Chair of The Vegan Society. Contributor to Vegan Life Magazine, Plant Based Magazine, Vegan Food and Living Magazine and OK! Magazine. Speaker and cooking demonstrator at Vegan Life Life Festival London, Mind Body and Spirit Festival London, Veganes Sommerfest Berlin, and Bali Vegan Festival. Author of "Essence: The Beginner's Guide to Veganism".