Recipe: Delicious Easy Vegan Carrot Cake

Easy Vegan Carrot Cake. Moist, rich vegan carrot cake with a wholesome flavor and gorgeous color. Topped with lemon buttercream frosting and crushed walnuts. It gives you the feeling that you're eating something pretty darn healthy.

Top it with vegan cream cheese frosting or enjoy it on its own. I make this vegan carrot cake recipe for Jack's birthday each year. Moist, cinnamon-spiced, and slathered in frosting, it's perfect for celebrations. You can cook Easy Vegan Carrot Cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy Vegan Carrot Cake

It's of For the cake.
Prepare 135 g of carrot, peeled and grated.
You need 1 of lemon, zest only.
Prepare 67 g of walnuts, chopped.
You need 35 g of sultanas.
Prepare 35 g of chopped pitted dates.
You need 200 g of plain flour.
Prepare 120 g of light brown sugar.
You need 1/4 tsp of ground/grated nutmeg.
It's 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
It's 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
You need 200 ml of almond milk.
Prepare 80 ml of flavourless oil or melted dairy-free butter.
Prepare of Lemon drizzle icing.
You need 7 tbsp of Icing sugar.
Prepare 1.5 Tbsp of lemon juice.

This easy vegan carrot cake is soft and tender, laced with cinnamon and nutmeg, and frosted with a vegan cream cheese frosting. My ideal carrot cake is full of juicy, freshly grated carrot and contain plenty of chopped walnuts. No raisins are invited to this cake party! Enjoy this delicious raw vegan Carrot Cake!

Easy Vegan Carrot Cake step by step

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..

How to make the carrot cake: cut your carrots into small pieces and place them into your food processor. The pictured vegan carrot cake is frosted with store-bought white icing. Many commercial white icings are accidentally-vegan, and I haven't yet been Easy vegan carrot cake made with normal pantry ingredients! You won't know there's no dairy or egg in this delicious cake with "cream cheese" frosting. Vegan Carrot Cake, perfectly spiced and incredibly moist.