Delicious Vegan, Gluten free Carrot Cake, made with wholesome ingredients and bursting with flavor. Perfect for a guilt-free treat!
Delicious and Healthy Dessert Option
Looking for a guilt-free, healthy treat that the whole family will love? This recipe for carrot cake is not only delicious, but it’s also packed with nutritious ingredients like applesauce, grated carrots, and chopped walnuts. The batter comes together easily with a flax egg substitute, making it a vegan-friendly option. Baking the cakes at 350°F for 30-35 minutes results in a moist and flavorful dessert that is sure to be a hit.
Once the cakes have cooled, you can frost them with your choice of frosting and decorate with chopped nuts for an extra crunch. This recipe is perfect for any occasion, whether it’s a birthday celebration or a simple weekend treat. So, why not give this healthier version of carrot cake a try and satisfy your sweet tooth without any guilt?
Indulge in guilt-free goodness with our delectable Vegan, Gluten-Free Carrot Cake!
hello and welcome to usea Lifestyle Center eat for Optimal Health I am so glad that you joined us for this episode remember that this season we are making glutenfree dishes yes glutenfree dishes so before we begin our recipe for today permit me to remind you that our cookbook simple plant-based recipes it’s.
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We are going to take our time and go through all the ingredients so that you can get a good view of things so here we have our carrots right and what I did as I grated the carrots I also included some green apples green apples are great they give great taste they are go they give good flavor and so it’s.
Great for our carrot cake so that’s our carrots then we have our glutenfree flour and I want you to see it’s the allpurpose brand gluten-free flour that we are going to use we have our baking powder here we have our walnuts here then we have instead of flax we are going to use our chia seeds right so we have our chia seeds ready.
Now sometimes the recipe calls for olive oil I’m not going to use olive oil what I’m going to use instead is Smart Balance right Earth Balance sorry this is a vegan butter and I have some brown can sugar organic brown can sugar in here and so this is what I’m going to use in this bowl we have our glutenfree flour this is 2 cups and we are going to.
Add to this one cup of oat flour this is glutenfree oats and we just blend it and made the oat flour you excited about making this vegan carrot cake I am and I hope you are too so first thing we are going to do I have the.
Organic the vegan button here with the cane sugar organic cane sugar so I’m going to blend it around so that it’s all melted in if you have a mixer you can also mix do it in your mixer but this is so simple that I wanted to do it just like this so that you can see what a simple process it is all right so here we ready to go we have.
Our bowl with our flour it is 2 cups of gluten-free flour and then we have one cup of oat flour so so I’ve added my little bit of salt now I’m going to add my baking soda and the baking powder see what I’m doing going to mix this in to this we are going to add our cinnamon and here is our nutmeg.
So here we have our flax actually this is chia seed and I prefer to use the Chia seed because for me Chia is a superfood okay and I’m just going to blend it so this is going to be used as our egg replacer right so here we have this ready so we have all of this ingredient.
Here and over here we have our Earth Balance with some organic clean sugar so I’m going to put my flax eggs in here and blend everything up all right so to this mixture here we are going to.
Add our carrots all right and we’re going to make sure that we are blending everything in very well now you can see the little pieces of apples there so we are blending everything.
In and now we are going to add the flour a little at a time and we are going to keep on blending making sure that everything is nicely mixed in now once this is nicely mixed.
In we are going to add our date paste remember we didn’t put a lot of sugar we put just a little bit of sugar so the date is going to be a part of the sweetening process as well now we have our organic pure Ammon extract and we’re going to put just a little bit of it in just a tiny.
Bit and we are going to keep on mixing this in that almond gives it a real nice all right now to this we are going to put in our walnuts and then finally we’re just going to top it off with a little few bit of raisins going to put some more flour.
We’re going to make sure that everything is nicely mixed in and one of the ways to know if it’s the right consistency after we are finished blending everything in we’re going to put our wooden spoon and if it stand it’s about a good consistency so what we are.
Going to do we’re going to leave this to stand for a few minutes on this side we have our pan ready and we are going to use some of the cooking spray carrots are very very good they are full with lots of nutrients and lot LS of antioxidants that are good for your.
Health and your overall well-being carrots are good for your eyes they have vitamin A which helps to improve your vision and it’s also has high betacarotene which helps to lower your risk of heart disease very very important then you have your skin Health carrot the vitamin A in carrots is very.
Very good to help your skin to look healthy and to protect it from damage it’s good also for your heart now carrots um have potassium that regulates your blood pressure and it reduces your risk of heart disease carrots are also good because it has a lot of fiber which lowers your cholesterol level did you know this.
Is important that carrots are also good for digestion so it helps with your digestion and it’s also a natural laxative so these are some of the benefits of and we are going to learn about some more in just a few minutes carrots are also very good for our immune system.
They the vitamin A and C they have it has also great antioxidants which can help to protect the body from various bacterial and viral infections wonderful isn’t it then we have weight loss did you know that if you’re trying to lose weight that if you use carrots because it has a lot of fiber it would help you to shed the p M it can also.
Help you to balance your blood sugar and it can prevent weight gain these are all some of the great benefits of the carrot carrot is also great for cancer because it has a variety of vitamins and minerals and antioxidant and of course the fiber and these help to fight against cancer the proliferation of cancer also the antioxidants that are.
Found in carrots are very very powerful to help your overall health it helps to remove free radicals that can damage your body significantly so all around when you look at it carrot is what I would describe as a super super food so as often as you can in incorporated into your meals it will be a great thing to.
Do and carrots are very versatile so you can use it in Savory dishes you can use it in sweet dishes as we are doing right now making the carrot cake and you can use it in juices and smoothies and so much more so carrots are great utilize them as much as possible let’s talk about the benefits of the walnut walnut is another very.
Important ingredient that we have included in this carrot cake one nuts are considered a superfood Yes you heard me correctly a superfood because it can contribute to many aspect of our health including our heart health our brain and our reproductive system of course they’re high in omega-3 fatty acids which can help to improve our.
Cardiovascular health by reducing inflammation cholesterol and also it can help to control our blood pressure walnuts also include antioxidant fiber vitamins carbs and protein so all around walnuts are very very beneficial to your overall health as often as possible try to incorporate it in your diet but if you are eating the Walnut just by itself.
Just a handful is enough because it has a lot of fats also but it has a lot of overall great benefits that are excellent for your health did you know also that walnuts are great are a great source of alpha Leon lonic acid alpha lonic acid and that is called ala it is also a good source of omega-3 fatty acids and these.
Are important for reducing inflam in fact it is the only nut significantly high in omega-3 fats now the anti-inflammatory compounds that omega-3 fatty acid it may reduce your risk of heart disease and we know that heart disease is one of the major killers in these United States so.
Incorporating walnuts is a great thing to do so want to make sure it’s nice and even in the pan so we are going to make sure that we press it down here a little bit that it’s nice and even in the meantime our oven is ready and so here we have it we have our carrot cake ready to go so we are going.
To bake this for about 45 minutes or so and on the other side you are going to see what this looks like I am so excited about this I can’t wait to show you this carrot cake on the our beautiful carrot cake okay nice and tender and so here is our presentation of our carrot cake now you can make some frosting with cashew nuts and almond.
Paste and just put on top of it but I like to have mine plain so here is mine with some strawberries you can do whatever ever you choose so here we have it ladies and gentlemen our wonderful carrot cake eat and enjoy please try this recipe and past a comment on our page so that we can know how yours came out I’m.
Just so excited about this because I believe you’re going to do an excellent job in making this carrot cake your children would love it your your entire family and this is really what it means to eat healthy so thanks for joining us today for this episode and as I always say eat for Optimal Health for your body is God’s.
Temple see you in the next two weeks and cheers to your good health thank you
