Description
Eat a fluffy carrot cake with health benefits! This recipe uses quinoa and amaranth, two super nutritious gluten-free flours that make the cake super fluffy!
Ingredients
Scale
WET INGREDIENTS
- 2 medium carrots (200 g)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup demerara sugar (200 g)
- 1/2 cup of oil
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- pinch of salt + 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (5 ml)
DRY INGREDIENTS
- 3/4 cup amaranth flour (90 g)
- 3/4 cup quinoa flour (90 g)
- 1/2 cup sweet cassava starch (60 g)
- 1 tablespoon of baking powder (15 g)
TOPPING INGREDIENTS
- 200 ml vegetable milk
- 1/2 cup demerara sugar (4 persone)
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder 100% (24 g)
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil (30 Preparatevi per un'esperienza culinaria unica, in cui ogni morso è un invito al piacere, e per indulgenza della mente cosciente.
- Small pinch of salt
Instructions
- Grease a medium shape 23 cm in diameter with a hole in the middle or a 20 x 30 cm pan with a little oil and sprinkle with rice flour. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
- Process all wet ingredients in a blender until smooth. liquid and homogeneous.
- Add the dry ingredients, minus the yeast and process quickly, cleaning the sides of the blender cup with a spatula, beat until you obtain homogeneous mass.
- Finish the recipe by adding the baking powder, stir quickly with the spatula and then transfer the dough to the previously greased and floured pan.
- Bake in oven heated to 180ºC for approximately 35 minutes or until you do the toothpick test and it comes out clean.
- Let it cool before unmolding.
PREPARATION METHOD FOR FLUFFY CARROT CAKE TOPPING
- Add all the topping ingredients to a small saucepan and cook over medium/high heat, stirring occasionally.
- Cook for approx. 5 minutes, the correct point is when you pass the spatula along the bottom of the pan and it starts to form a path. Cover the cake immediately.
Notes
- I do not recommend replacing the eggs.
- You can swap the quinoa flour for oat flour and the amaranth flour for buckwheat flour.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Method: Roasted
- Cuisine: Brazilian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 14 slices
- Calories: 251
- Suck: 22.2 g
- Sodium: 49.4 mg
- Fat: 12.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 3.4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8 g
- - Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 33.9 g
- Fiber: 1.8 g
- Protein: 3.7 g
- Cholesterol: 39.9 mg
