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Easy VEGAN carrot cake 🥕
My favourite carrot cake recipe, that also happens to be vegan
The following recipe is probably one of my favourite desserts on planet earth: CARROT CAKE 😋The cool thing about this easy recipe is, that it’s 100% vegan and completely cruelty free, meaning it contains zero animal products in it. Extra bonus: It’s also gluten free and made without refined sugar. It’s crazy how delicious desserts you can make without any milk, butter or - wheat. This carrot cake is fluffy and quite moist and delish.
What you need (crust):
5 cups of shredded carrots
2 cups of oat milk
5 cups of buckwheat
2 1/2 cups coconut sugar
1 1/2 cups of coconut oil
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Frosting:
100 grams of unflavoured cream cheese
1/2 cup vegan butter
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 - 4 cups sifted organic powdered sugar (you can use less)
How to:
➡️Peel & shred carrots. Heat oven to 175 Celsius.
➡️To a large mixing bowl, add oat milk, coconut oil, sugar, cinnamon, salt, cardamom and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix buckwheat with baking soda and baking powder. Then, combine these two bowls and mix thoroughly, however avoid making the batter too runny. Add shredded carrots.
➡️Add batter into a pan that you’ve oiled with coconut oil and bake for 45 minutes
➡️Let the cake cool down for at least 30 minute before adding frosting.
➡️To make frosting, simply whisk everything in a bowl and spread on top of the cake. Decorate with walnuts or shredded carrots.
TIPS to consider 👩🏻🍳:
💡Tip: so if you prefer a less moist version, you can simply reduce the amount of carrots and leave it for a little bit longer in the oven.
💡Tip: If you don’t want to use any sugar, supplement it with honey or maple syrup!
💡Tip: Do not use packaged pre-shredded carrots because they are hard and dry.
💡If you melt the coconut oil, make sure all of the other cake batter ingredients (carrots included) are room temperature.
Let me know what you think 😋
ENJOY!
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Eva
Simply the best & (easiest) VEGAN blueberry pie
Easy vegan blueberry pie
It’s your Gordon Ramsey here again, hi 👩🏼🍳! Today I’m sharing with you the easiest, quickest and most delicious dessert ever 😋: vegan blueberry pie. What’s even better with this blueberry pie, is that it’s made with blueberries I’ve picked myself just by our summer house and it is completely cruelty free, meaning it is vegan and contains no animal products whatsoever. It’s also gluten free and made without refined sugar. So, with that many perks, you’d think the taste would be compromised - but it’s not, it’s divine. Yum. So without further ado:
What you need (crust):
2,5 dl buckwheat flour
1 cup of coconut oil
1 cup of coconut sugar
1 tsp baking powder
half a cup of oat milk or any other dairy free milk
Even if the weather was not the best, this pie gave us joy.
What to do:
➡️Mix flour & baking powder in one bowl. Mix sugar with coconut oil in another bowl. Add everything together in one bowl and carefully the oat milk while mixing the batter. Add batter into a pan.
➡️Prebake the crust for about 7 minutes in 200 Celsius.
➡️If you’re using frozen blueberries, add the blueberries on top of crust (you can add a little coconut sugar with the blueberries) and bake the whole thing for another 25 minutes. And voila, you’re done✨
Quick & Easy & Healthy
💡Tip: Pre bake crust if you’re using frozen blueberries!
💡Tip: If you don’t want to use any sugar, supplement it with honey or maple syrup!
💡Tip: You can add other berries in the mix as well, such as lingonberries, strawberries, raspberries… use your imagination!
You can serve it with oat milk ice cream or perhaps vegan vanilla sauce 😋
ENJOY!
XX
Eva