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Last Updated on December 6, 2020
Looking for a healthy carrot cake recipe using coconut flour? These light and moist cupcakes are topped with a sweet cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Cake is my favorite cake hands down so it’s no surprise that it was my first gluten-free recipe. My mother only bought vanilla cake or chocolate cake mixes so I can remember clearly the first time I had it. I was living in Australia and attending the birthday of a friend who turning the old age of 6.
In my family, food comes first, so I checked out the cake early on and saw that it was a strange gold color with specks of orange. Little did I know that by the end of the party I would be a carrot cake convert and want it for my birthday every year. You can easily turn these coconut flour carrot cupcakes into a cake but you will want to double the recipe. I personally don’t want another pan to clean!
I hope that you enjoy it!
Coconut Flour Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
cake
- 1/2 cup coconut flour, sifted
- 5 eggs
- 1/3 cup coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 Tablespoons honey
- 1 Tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 large carrots, peeled and finely shredded
- 1/3 cup raisins
frosting
- 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
- 3 Tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- In a large bowl mix together the eggs, ghee, vanilla, honey and applesauce until completely blended with an electric beater
- Next add the baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and sifted coconut flour into the wet ingredients.
- Mix until fully blended.
- Last but not the least add the grated carrots and raisins and mix with a spoon.
- Pour your batter in to 12 cupcake tins and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cupcake comes out clean.
- For the frosting, add the cream cheese, maple syrup and lemon to a blow and with a hand mixer blend together all the ingredients until smooth.
- Apply to the cooled carrot cake cupcakes.
- Enjoy!
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Hey! Thx for the coconut flour recipe! I won a free bag of coconut flour several months ago and had no clue what to do with it. lol Couldn’t find any recipes online. Go figure. My son’s on a gluten free diet, and I’m sure he’ll love this!
~Wendy
You’re welcome Wendy. It’s a really yummy recipe and pretty low in sugar.
I want to try your recipe!
This recipe is great. My 6 yer old was just diagnosed with a wheat sensitivity and I stumbled upon your recipe. Just made the cupcakes tonight. So good! My son likes them without icing. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so happy that you enjoyed them!
Mmmm… carrot cake is my favorite! This looks so yummy!
I’d love to try this. It looks delicious.
My paleo friend would so thank me for these! 🙂
Yum, we’re a carrot cake FAMILY. All of us love it.
Oh yum these look good
I need to try these! They look amazing!
Any idea how to effectively substitute that much egg?! I usually use apple sauce but last time with a different carrot cake recipe and all it did was make breadcrumbs! I know I can use chia seeds or the no egg but anyone tried it and how much? Should the cake consistency be a bit runny and sticking together rather than bread crumbs?! Thanks for any advice, guidance or help!
Hun, I have never made this recipe without eggs. I did a quick google search and found this = http://happyherbivore.com/2011/09/replacing-eggs-baking-vegan/. There’s a comment by Debbie that other readers found helpful.
Thanks for this recipe…for some reason (most likely user problem), my muffins came out very wet…. is this how it is supposed to be?
Strange. Perhaps up the cook time to 30 mintues?
My SO has gluten sensitivity and recently said “I miss carrot cake :(” So I embarked on an exhaustive internet search and found these beauties! he LOVED them….thank you for the post! It’s nice to make things he enjoys since his medical condition has sucked the joy out of much of his diet.. They do come out a bit wet, but I just flip them over in the same cupcake tin and put them back in the oven for a few minutes with the over off (after cooling them a bit) and that dries them up. nicely
I’m so glad he enjoyed them Roki and great tip!
Can the cupcakes be frozen as well as the frosting separately please. I also assume the ghee mentioned should be the coconut oil. Thank you so much. I am going to add some finely chopped pineapple with the raised and carrots
Diane
Yes, that would work Diane.