Carrot Cake in my house is an all time favorite. However, finding a good Gluten-Free Carrot Cake recipe has been hard. The recipe below took some time. I had to tweak it many times to get a moist and yummy dairy-free and gluten-free carrot cake that everyone loved. Even my husband and son gave this Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Recipe a double thumbs up.
Gluten-Free Carrot Cake
Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Recipe
Servings: 12 cake
Calories: 350kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 cup bottled or filtered water
- 2 tbsp flax meal mixed with 6 Tbsp bottled or filtered water
- 1 cup scant Organic Pure Cane Sugar
- 4 large organic eggs or egg substitute for liquid of 4 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
- 1/4 cup honey or agave or maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups organic coconut flour (Let's Do Organic brand)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 1 cup shredded organic coconut (Let's Do Organic brand)
- 1 cup finely ground walnuts
Instructions
- Put raisins and water into a small pot and bring to boil, then reduce the heat to simmer and cover, simmering until raisins are plump. Leave raisins in the water solution.
- Mix flax meal and water and allow to stand about 10 minutes to thicken before mixing into batter.
- Grease and flour a 9x13 baking pan.
- Blending the liquids
- Beat sugar and egg or egg substitute until smooth. Add flax meal and water mixture and beat well Add organic coconut oil, honey or agave or maple syrup and vanilla and beat well. Add raisins and the water it was simmering in and apple cider vinegar and mix well.
- Adding dry ingredients
- Add the organice coconut flour, cinnamon, salt and baking soda and blend well. Add grated carrots and blend, add shredded coconut and blend then add ground nuts and blend well.
- BAKE
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour thick batter into the prepared cake pan and spead evenly. Bake 45 minutes and check.. Cake is done when an inserted toothpick comes out clean and cake is firm. The cake will not be smooth on top...it looks rough and grainy.
- When cake is cool...spread with icing of choice.
- Frosting:
- I used 4 cups powdered sugar, 1/4 cup soy milk, 1 tsp vanilla and 1/4 cup earth balance butter spread.
- Another choice is 2 cups softened better than cream cheese, 1/4 cup earth balance butter spread, 1 Tbsp vanilla and 1/2 cup maple syrup or agave blended.
- Enjoy this great Carrot Cake!
Nutrition
Calories: 350kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 486mg | Potassium: 242mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 3645IU | Vitamin C: 1.8mg | Calcium: 35mg | Iron: 1.7mg
What do you put on top of your carrot cake?
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Have you tried without coconut oil? I have an allergy to coconut.. wondering how well this does with regular oil and Almond flour?
Carrot cake is my absolute favorite dessert. I could eat it all day, every day. I recently started to use coconut flour for baking. I will be trying this recipe….looks so good!
My Birthday’s coming up! Carrot is my favorite cake. I must try this. It sounds great! Thank you!
Awesome recipe! One change I’d make is to use the Earth Balance coconut spread instead of the buttery one.
Carrot cake is a nice light cake, great for any occasion. Your carrot cake looks delicious, I can’t wait to give it a try. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
This is another gluten free recipe I just have to try. Thank you for sharing
I LOVE CARROT CAKE AND THIS ONE DOES SOUND GOOD
I love carrot cake. I have never had vegan or gluten free carrot cake though. I am excited to try this recipe.
I am a carrot cake lover and so are my grandsons. This cake looks wonderful and I just might have to try this recipe this year for the holidays.
I’ve never used organic coconut flour. I’ll have to look for it at the store. This recipe sounds and looks delicious. I love carrot cake!
Is gluten goot enough? I’m not even certain what gluten truly is. I need to research it more.
Just wanted to followup my previous comment about altering this to make it vegan…. This recipe is labeled as vegan but calls for eggs, or egg substitute. Even egg substitutes are made from egg or animal products. The recipe could not be vegan if it contains any animal ingredients. It may have just been an oversight, or the sometimes confusion between vegetarian and vegan, where some vegetarians do eat eggs. Vegans do not consume/use any animal products.
Kathe, this is a Vegan Recipe if you use egg substitute. There are tons of egg substitutes that are vegan. The Vegg, Bob’s Red Mill egg replacer, Energy egg replacer and of course you can always use applesauce or chia seeds or flax seed with water…so many to choose from.
I do eat vegan but use eggs when I bake goods…so if you use eggs in this recipe of course it would not be vegan. You also would not want to use honey if you want it vegan. That is why I chose a substitute of agave or you could even use maple syrup. Have fun. Colleen
I have tried several gluten-free carrot cake recipes that have been okay, but a lot of work. This one sounds good and simple to make. I will be altering to make it vegan, but can’t wait to try. Carrot cake is my favorite….even more than chocolate 😉
THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN INTERESTING RECIPE NEVER TRIED ANY VEGAN FOOD
Delicious! Thanks for the recipe. Carrot cake is a favorite.
yum yum yum!! this looks so moist and delicious! i need more gluten free recipes of recipes we love and this is going on my list forsure
Carrott cake is one the most best gluten free cakes.My favorite
Oh this recipe for Carrot Cake set my mouth to watering. I am going to make this at Christmas as on of the deserts. I am looking forward to eating a huge slice of it.
I’ve been looking for a great GF carrot cake alternative! Thanks– I’ll be giving this one a try!
I love carrot cake although I haven’t had it in awhile. Now I am so hungry for this after finding this recipe on your blog so I am going to have to make me one. Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe.
Although we do not have to eat gluten free this looks like a healthier version of carrot cake and I might give it a try.
i am going to try this! thank you!
I LOVE Carrot Cake will def be trying out this recipe!!!
looks and sounds really great, thanks for the recipe!
Oooo carrot cake!! It’s hubby’s favourite cake! I’ve always used sunflower oil in my recipe but I’m sure coconut oil will be a better substitute! Pinned this – http://pinterest.com/pin/272186371202167670/
Carrot cake is definitely on my favorite list, thanks for great recipe.
Oh yummy!!! I’m definitely trying this. Thank you for the recipe!
Thanks for sharing the recipe! I’ll have to try this. We recently had to switch to a gluten-free, dairy-free, almond-free, and egg-free diet and I’ve been looking for some new recipes.
I love Carrot cake and am going to try this!
Next time I make carrot cake I am going to use this recipe! Thank you!
Carrot cake is a favorite of mine and my family’s! I will def be trying this healthy version for upcoming Easter. Thank you!
I love carrot cake. Never tried it from scratch. I’ll bet it’s much better!
I have been looking for a recp for carrot cake thanks you so much.
I bookemarked this recipe, we are trying to stay away from wheat, and i’ve been baking with coconut flour, this is something i would love to try.
Looks so yummy and the coconut would be a great addition to carrot cake. Thanks for the recipe!
We love carrot cake will have to try this recipe.
I love carrot cake. Will have to try this one.
looks amazing cant wait to try it
This looks amazing! I can’t wait to make it!
Oh, thank you so much .. this sounds really yummy and I love carrot cake. This also sounds very healthy because of the use of coconut oil and coconut flour. Gotta try this one out!
Looks delicious! Will have to remember to try this recipe.
My husband’s fave! I think I may make for Valentine’s Day!
This looks awesome!
Yum! I have to try out this recipe.
can’t wait to try this recipe, YUM
That looks heavenly !
This is an amazing cake, thank you for sharing!
I love carrot cake! I will have to try this and see how it tastes!
this looks so yummy I will have to try out this recipe thanks for posting!
This looks amazing-and sounds even better to my pregnant belly! The best part…I have everything in my kitchen already that I need to try this and Im having company this weekend.
I love Carrot Cake, and wondered how you could make a gluten free, vegan one. Interesting!
That looks delish!
This looks absolutely delicious!
Yummy, looks amazingly good.
I love carrot cake! This looks so good.
thankyou for the recipe, i try to go vegan atleast once a week
Thanks for this recipe! I try to make everything vegan, for the most part so this is AMAZING!
The first thing I saw when I entered this site was a carrot cake recipe…It caught my eye..It is my husbands favorite of all cakes..My sister makes it every year for Christmas..All homemade even grates the carrots by hand for this cake.. The recipe here sound so good and its organic..Must try…Thanks for Posting..
yummy looks carraotlicious
My daughter, Nichole, has a niece with major food allergies, including gluten. I will share this recipe with my daughter’s sister-in-law, Pam. thanks so much.
We love carrot cake , this sounds wonderful. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing. I love carrot cake and this one looks very tasty.
Wow, yummy. This looks so good! My son has severe food allergies, one of which is milk. He has anaphylactic reactions to milk, so we go for a lot of vegan recipes. Thanks for posting it!
I have been trying to eat healthy, my sister is a vegan but it’s harder than it sounds! This sounds like a great recipe! I’m going to share it with my sis!
You had me at the photo. This recipe looks wonderful!
Wow, that cake looks so good! I have some coconut flour sitting in my freezer that I haven’t used, so I’m definitely going to have to try this! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I cant wait to make this for my best friends birthday! She loves carrot cake & its gluten free sound delish! tink4everbell at yahoo dot com
This looks really good. My mom loves carrot cake. I will have to give this recipe a try. Thanks for the post.
Wow this looks so good, I love carrot cake
Just what i was in the mood for , cant wait to try this yummy looking cake !
This looks amazing! Hubby walked by while I was reading this and he said “make me this, please?!”, looks like I will have to try it out.
This looks so delicious! I absolutely love carrot cake, so I’m going to give this a try! Thanks for the recipe!
carrot cake is my favorite ty
yum. love carrot cake!
This looks delicious!!
Carrot cake is one of my favorites and this look so yummy! I’ll definitely have to try it! Thanks for the recipe!
I love carrot cake. Looks yummy!!
This looks yummy will have to give it a try
I am so glad I found your blog and this recipe. I am in the process of making the change to a gluten-free diet but my extended family hasn’t made the change. All of my family will be coming to my house for Thanksgiving this year and I think this recipe will be something that everyone will like and eat.
I want to tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your recipes. My hubby bakes and cooks and I will definitely have to get him to try these. Thank you so much!
This looks delicious, my mom is gluten free so I may have to try it sometime!
Yum! Gonna have to try this!
Carrot Cake is a family favorite, so I will definitely have to try this recipe. I bet my family won’t be able to tell the difference. Thanks so much for sharing.
I absolutely loved this recipe, thanks for the great idea. I am going to pass this on to my gluten intolerant friends.
Thank you! Now I can make my mom carrot cake!
YUM!! My mouth is watering!
Looks delicious. Hope to try out this recipe this weekend!
It’s nice to know there are recipes for almost anything gluten-free. I would love to try this as I have a wheat sensitivity.
Love carrot cake. Thanks for posting the recipe.
Looks yummy – I’ll def try to make that!
Oh this looks delicious and healthy too with the flax seeds, apple cider vinegar and coconut oil. I can’t eat sugar, I wonder if this would adapt to stevia. Got my thinking cap on. Thanks for sharing.
That looks delicious! I need to try and make this!
sounds good, thanks for the recipe.
I am not a big fan of carrot cake, but my mother sure is. I would love to make this for her.
I love carrot cake and this looks so delicious. I will definitely have to try this recipe. Thank you for sharing!
I’ll be passing your blog along to a friend of mine– she just found out she needs to cut out glutens from her diet. She’ll be so pleased to find some great recipes! Thanks! 🙂
Oh I love carrot cake! This recipe looks yummy! Thank you for sharing!
I love carrot cake and this one sounds really yummy. Too bad I am allergic to coconut…sigh…
I wonder how this would taste as opposed to regular carrot cake lol. I know I wouldn’t be opposed to trying it.
Thanks for the awesome recipe! My family loves carrot cake 🙂
I am looking for a cake recipe for my son’s birthday. This might be the one I’ve been looking for.
Yum! Looks delicious. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
My goodness that carrot cake looks delicious! I’m going to have to give this recipe a try. Thanks for sharing 🙂
this sounds very tasty. thanks for sharing
We love carrot cake but I havent thought to make it 🙂 Look so yummy, and would be perfect for our family because its Gluten Free 🙂
Great recipe! I love carrot cake and this is such a great alternative!
This recipe sounds (and looks) delicious! Carrot cake is my son’s favorite so I’m going to make this for his birthday next week. Thanks for the recipe!
This sounds delicious, and a great recipe for fall!! Yum!
That looks so yummy! I love any type of cake!
That looks so good!
My mom used to make carrot cake when I was growing up. Thanks for the gluten free recipe 🙂
Wow this looks so good. We are trying to eat better and more naturally, so even though I am not an amazing cook I would like to try this out. I love carrot cake.