Healthy carrot cake

The best and healthiest carrot cake you’ll ever eat made with almond and flaxseed meal and naturally sweetened with our own Nature Sweet.

Makes: 12 slices
Ingredients: 9
Serving size: 1 slice
Total calories: 222
Protein: 7.9 g
Fat: 18 g
Carbohydrates: 8.15 g
Fibre: 5.67 g

Ingredients for cake

  • 2 cups grated carrot
  • ¼ cup orange juice + grated rind
  • 2 cups almond meal
  • 1 cup flaxseed meal
  • 6 eggs, separated
  • 3 tbsp Nature Sweet Sugar Substitute

Ingredients for frosting

  • ½ cup coconut cream
  • ½ avocado
  • 2 tbsp orange juice
  • 1 tbsp vanilla essence

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a cake tin.
  2. Whisk the egg yolks with the Nature Sweet and combine with the carrot, orange, almond meal and flax meal, to form a batter.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites to form soft peaks, and fold through the batter.
  4. Pour the batter into the cake tin, and bake for 40-50 minutes or until cooked all the way through.
  5. Whisk coconut cream, avocado, orange juice and vanilla essence together until thick enough for frosting. Spread over the cake once cooled.
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