This recipe is super moist and flavourful and does NOT taste gluten free! It is also dairy free minus the butter used in the icing but that's easy to swap out. We just happen to allow butter in our dairy free things because it is the one dairy item that doesn't bother anyone's stomach around here when used in moderation. I will not be sharing the icing here as I feel like that's pretty basic to make and everyone knows how...its just butter, vanilla, icing sugar and a bit of cinnamon for this cake.
Let me know if you try this cake. I'm very excited about its tastiness and texture!
Gluten Free Carrot cake
Ingredients:
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/4 cups canola oil
1 teaspoon sea salt
3 cups peeled and finely grated carrots
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/8 cup almond flour
1 1/8 cup gluten free pancake mix (Bob's red mill brand)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Method:
Mix all the wet ingredients first, then add in the dry ingredients and mix well again. Pour into 2 buttered 9 inch cake pans. Bake at 350F until you can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean. Do not over-bake through! In my oven it took about 20 minutes.
Once the cakes have cooled, turn one of them out onto a cake pan and ice lightly (or spread with whipped cream instead) then carefully place the second layer on top. Ice the outside of the entire cake and sprinkle some pecans on top if desired. I also drizzled some melted dairy free chocolate chips on top as well. Super yummy! Next time I make this I will mix some sea salt into the melted chocolate and see if the sweet and salty combo would be amazing! :)
1 comment:
Hello! I cannot seem to tolerate much almond flour, but carrot cake sounds delicious. Do you really only have four kids left at home? Me too, although one of my daughters (Kathryn) and her husband and two kids were here for over a month, visiting from Salem for a week ha... they are now living as caretakers at our conference center, ten minutes away! The first day they were moved out, it was so quiet. Now my Samuel and his wife and two kids are moving up here from Virginia, in the next few weeks, he'll be staying here with the baby for a week, then going back and getting his wife and little boy, they'll live with us until their house is finished...and on Sunday afternoons, most of the kids pile into the house to visit, and it's crazy but I LOVE it.
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