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I discovered my love for carrot cakes in Denmark. The cake tastes so moist, especially the frosting on a carrot cake is my favorite. I thought it couldn’t be so hard to make a delicious vegan carrot cake myself. In fact, it´s very easy and quick to make. There are already so many vegan products on the market that the search for vegan cream cheese for the frosting is not difficult. So I think this vegan carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is the perfect treat for Easter 🙂

Moist Vegan Carrot Cake – healthy and delicious

Oil is needed to make the carrot cake moist. However, the grated carrots make the cake even juicier. This is the perfect combination. The other day I baked a chocolate banana bread with rapeseed oil, but this time I used coconut oil. That also worked very well and you don´t taste the coconut flavor at all.

I tried to create a healthy carrot cake. However, this frosting is anything but healthy. To make the frosting healthy, you can mix cashew nuts with coconut oil and agave syrup together. But for my recipe, I made a Cream Cheese Frosting consisting of cream cheese, powdered sugar, and butter. I admit it, I like it very sweet! If you want to make a Peanut Butter Frosting, have a look at my Monster Cupcakes.

Almost all other ingredients are healthy. Sugar can be replaced with coconut blossom sugar, agave or maple syrup. Btw. on my blog, you can find more sugar-free snacks under the topic: desserts. In my opinion, the spices are incredibly important in a carrot cake because they make it very aromatic. I have added ginger, nutmeg as well as cinnamon. I have also ground walnuts and added them to the dough. It tastes very delicious together… You have to try it!

Preparation and storage of carrot cake

First of all this carrot cake is very easy to make. The only things you have to prepare are the carrots and walnuts. You just have to grate the carrots and also to grind the walnuts. For that, I use a mortar. Then all you have to do is mix all the ingredients together and put them in a cake tin. I decided to use a baking tin but you can also put the dough in a springform cake tin. After that, you just have to put it in the oven. Now the only thing you need to make is the Cream Cheese Frosting. All you have to do now is to mix the ingredients for the frosting together. However, it is important that the butter does not come directly from the refrigerator. It should have room temperature.

The cake can be stored for up to 5 days in the fridge. You can enjoy it for breakfast or as a snack. One day later the carrot cake tastes even better as the aroma unfolds!