Quick Carrot Cake Recipe Biography
Source(google.com.pk)Everything that comes out of my kitchen is dairy-free, but for my family, at special events, I like to bake things that are as “normal” as possible. To do so, I often peruse the recipes that grandma clips from the newspaper or dog-ears in her favorite magazine, Taste of Home. Though I’m not completely sure of the original source, this dairy-free carrot cake recipe was born from one that I found at my grandma’s house.
My grandma, father, and I are big carrot cake fans, and it took just a few minor tweaks to develop a dairy-free carrot cake recipe that we all loved. I surprised her with a big slice of it for her 6th 75th birthday you do the math.
I topped it off with the dairy-free cream cheese frosting recipe that I created for Allergic Living magazine, but this one is also quite delicious. To maintain the thickness of the frosting, start with just a cup of powdered sugar and only add as much as needed for your tastes. I find that adding the full amount does make it a touch runny when using dairy-free cream cheese alternative.
This dairy-free carrot cake recipe is also naturally peanut-free, tree nut-free and soy-free. To make it egg-free and vegan, I believe Ener-G egg replacer would work quite well, though I haven’t tested it. For gluten-free, well, my recipe for that is also in Allergic Living sorry, I can’t reprint as of yet! But you can buy the issue online but I can tell you that a basic gluten-free flour blend, without xanthan gum, works nicely. I use brown rice flour + potato starch + tapioca starch, and do keep the eggs whenever possible for the gluten-free version. I offer all types of allergy-friendly options for that one, and they really do look like this
Note that I do grate the carrots for this dairy-free carrot cake recipe by hand – that is the only time-consuming thing about baking this dessert. If you have a food processor to help make fast work of the carrots, this cake will come to together quite quickly.
Combine the grated carrots and brown sugar in a medium bowl and set aside for an hour. After the two have had some good mingling time, stir in the raisins.
Preheat your oven to 350ºF, and grease and flour two 10-inch cake pans, three 8-inch cake pans, or two
inch cake pans cupcake tins.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and briefly set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs, and gradually beat in the white sugar, oil and vanilla. Stir in the pineapple. Stir the flour mix into the wet mixture, being careful not to over mix. Gently fold in the carrot mixture and nuts.
Pour the batter evenly into your prepared pans. Bake as follows: 10-inch pans – 40-50 minutes, 8-inch pans – 30-35 minutes, Cupcakes – 20-22 minutes, or for all, until the cakes are springy to the touch and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Place the pans on a wire rack to cool for 10-20 minutes before removing them from the pan.
Once the cake is completely cool, then you can frost it or drizzle with icing.
This Healthy Carrot Cake smoothie will be the last Dessert Thickie in the series, unless I come across one during Green Smoothie of the week. Although I absolutely adore Dessert Thickies and I have made many more of them, I feel the need to move on to something a bit lighter.
These particular thickies are higher in calories than a lot of other Green Thickies, but they will keep you going for a lot longer. In fact you may be able to drink the same portion for breakfast and lunch. You could also drink a quarter of the recipe for half the number of calories listed. I don’t actually count calories. I just let my hunger guide me and try and eat healthily. It works most of the time. I have bad food days as I am human but they are getting less and less the more greens I consume I know a lot of people do count calories and I’m always interested to know the calorie count, so I include them anyway.
2 Cups Dairy Free Milk this
½ Cup Water or enough so your blender can blend your carrots easily
2 Bananas
10 small to medium Carrots
¼ Cup Pecans Like this
¼ Cup Dates Like this
1 Teaspoon *Cinnamon Like this ie
Juice ½ Lemon
Optional: 1 Cup of Oats or other Filler
So this recipe for Healthy Carrot Cake Smoothie is a bonus recipe – not only is it a gorgeous dessert thickie one of my favourites but it’s a green thickie so you’ll get your usual energy boost from the greens without being able to taste them.
Plus it actually includes 10, yes 10 carrots! It made a full blender’s worth of smoothie so the quantity increased but this is mainly due to the carrots, all other ingredients stayed the same. So if you want some more inspiration for making this smoothie not that you’ll need any more once you taste it I can tell you that the full recipe contains over 9 cups of fruit or veg portions.
If you drink half of this for one meal you’ll have 4.5 cups. Basing the fruit and vegetable consumption on serving sizes is now a thing of the past, and the USDA is now advising you measure your fruit and veg intake in cups. They say a person on a 2000 calorie diet should be eating 2 cups of fruit and 2.5 cups of vegetables per day. This is 4.5 cups which is exactly how many cups half of this recipe contains. So you’ll meet the daily recommendations just from this one meal!
OK so that’s not an excuse to eat rubbish for the rest of the day, as we’re aiming for improved health here, but by drinking this smoothie you can definitely have your cake and eat it!
Healthy Carrot cake smoothie: Dessert Thickies Green Thickies I used a high powered blender for this smoothie, so if you are using a standard blender you might want to chop your carrot small enough for your blender to handle and add it in piece by piece to test it. It might not end up ultra smooth but at least it will encourage you to chew your food. I heard a great expression the other day: ‘Chew your liquids and liquidise your solids. So basically chew everything until it becomes liquid in your mouth. If you don’t chew your smoothies your stomach won’t be prepared, (your saliva sends a signal to the stomach to produce enough stomach acid) and you might end up with a stomach ache. It sounds funny but it makes the world of difference if you let your mouth pre-digest your food.
Who needs a juicer for carrots when you can have carrot cake smoothie!
If you missed my latest ‘How To’ post, this Ultimate Guide to Green Smoothies, will answer all your green smoothie questions and more.
Blend the ingredients in the following order:
Blend the dry ingredients and liquid first for a short time
Blend the greens next for a short time if using
Blend the fruit and the rest of the ingredients until smooth or as smooth as your blender will allow. High speed blenders may need 2 minutes for a Green Thickie, less powerful blenders may need a lot more, sometimes 5-10 minutes
More tips:
Blending this way allows the dry ingredients to be blended for longest, it means the greens will fit in your blender and your fruit gets less blending so it doesn’t become too hot.
Add more water if required to thin it out._
Substitute any of the ingredients for whatever you already have._
If your smoothie is too warm, you can cool it down in the fridge or freeze some of your ingredients before blending. You can also replace half of the liquids with ice. Add the ice at the end. It is better to add frozen ingredients at the end to cool the smoothie down.
How much should I drink to replace a meal
Only use a meal replacement if you’ve added the oats/quinoa.
This Green Thickie serves 2 so you should *DRINK HALF OF THIS RECIPE*. But if you have higher calorie requirements you may need to drink more.
Suitable for Special Diets:
Gluten free Use GF Oats or Quinoa
Raw Use raw oat quinoa
Vegetarian vegan dairy free egg free refined sugar free wheat free soya free don’t use soya milk or tofu,
Salt free don’t add salt
Nut free replace nuts with sunflower or pumpkin seeds. This doesn’t include coconuts
More information about making the perfect Green Thickie
If you are new to Green Thickies and have more questions about making the perfect green thickie, please read this guide on How to make a Green Thicki
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