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Easy Vegan Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy Vegan Carrot Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Whisk together the oil and sugar, then add the vanilla and milk. Combine the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, spices and orange zest in a separate bowl. Carrot cake must be one of the nation's favourite bakes, and there's no reason why vegans should miss out. This easy vegan carrot cake is everything you'd want.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy vegan carrot cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Vegan Carrot Cake:
- Make ready For the cake
- Prepare 135 g carrot, peeled and grated
- Take 1 lemon, zest only
- Prepare 67 g walnuts, chopped
- Prepare 35 g sultanas
- Take 35 g chopped pitted dates
- Take 200 g plain flour
- Get 120 g light brown sugar
- Prepare 1⁄4 tsp ground/grated nutmeg
- Get 1⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Take 200 ml almond milk
- Make ready 80 ml flavourless oil or melted dairy-free butter
- Make ready Lemon drizzle icing
- Make ready 7 tbsp Icing sugar
- Prepare 1.5 Tbsp lemon juice
Add the carrots and walnuts, gently folding them in to combine well. To make the cake, stir all the dry ingredients together and then mix the wet ones in. I've made this carrot cake countless times for birthdays, holidays, and I even used this recipe to bake my own vegan wedding cake. It always bakes up moist and delicious with just the right amount of spices.
Steps to make Easy Vegan Carrot Cake:
- Grease and line with baking parchment a loaf tin and preheat your oven to 180 degrees fan.
- Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarb, nutmeg, cinnamon in a large mixing bowl. Pour in the almond milk and mix gently until smooth. Pour in the oil and mix until just incorporated.
- Tip in the carrot, walnuts, zest, raisins and chopped dates and fold in gently. Pour into the prepared loaf tin and bake in the centre of the oven for 40-50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Leave to cool completely on a wire rack. When cool, remove from the tin, mix together the icing sugar and lemon juice until you have a thick, but dribbly icing and drizzle over the top. Grate over some extra zest for decoration.
I've made this carrot cake countless times for birthdays, holidays, and I even used this recipe to bake my own vegan wedding cake. It always bakes up moist and delicious with just the right amount of spices. You can use it to make cupcakes, sheet cakes, or sturdy layered cakes. Top it with my homemade vegan cream cheese frosting or vegan buttercream for a truly authentic carrot cake. Vegan Carrot Cake, topped with cream cheese frosting!
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