Raw Carrot Cake with Coconut, Cashew Creme

[MysticTree]

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Individual Raw Carrot Cakes with Coconut, Cashew Crème (Serves 14+)

Frosting:-
12oz cashews – soaked for an hour.
1tbs raw coconut oil
1tbs honey
coconut water to thin

Cakes:-
20oz grated carrot (then squeeze out juice)
8oz pecans
8oz cashews
8oz Medjool dates
6 oz apricots
1 tsp mixed spice
zest of two lemons

Decoration:-
Coconut curls or Halves of pecans or lemon zest

Directions:-
In fp blitz cashews until they are grainy then add coconut oil & honey & blitz again until smooth-ish. Set aside in the fridge to firm up. It looks like porridge

Put pecans, dates & apricots in the fp and process until finely chopped but NOT a paste. You want some texture for this. Add mixed spice & carrot and process until just mixed through. Tip into a bowl & add finely chopped lemon zest & mix through.

To get 14 individual cakes put 3oz of the mixture into the moulds you are using. If you have teeny-tiny petit four moulds then you will get many more than 14 & they are very rich so this probably makes more sense than the moulds I used.
Pipe the crème onto the top and decorate.

[MysticTree]

Next time I do this I will make half the amount unless it's for a party.

It's my take on a number of recipes I found and have read online. I changed the ingredients slightly and altered the ratios of nuts and fruits.

[Raynne413]

This sounds great! I love carrot cake!
How do you squeeze out the moisture from the carrots? Just with paper towels?

[MysticTree]

This sounds great! I love carrot cake!
How do you squeeze out the moisture from the carrots? Just with paper towels?

I put the grated carrot into a nut milk bag type thing in batches and then my BF with his big hands just squozed the juice out.

The keeping qualities are good too. I still have some left in the fridge and it's fine.

[maggiesdaddy]

MUST EAT THIS :drool:

[MysticTree]

MUST EAT THIS :drool:

Let me know how you like it.

[Nanceeq]

Sounds delicious, and easy. For our Sept community raw food potluck should be a hit.

[walnutty]

Instead of needing to drain or squeeze out the moisture from grated carrots, try this:

Make carrot juice and use the the carrot pulp instead of grated carrots!

That's what I do for carrot cake because the carrot pulp is ready to go right in the recipe.

[MysticTree]

Instead of needing to drain or squeeze out the moisture from grated carrots, try this:

Make carrot juice and use the the carrot pulp instead of grated carrots!

That's what I do for carrot cake because the carrot pulp is ready to go right in the recipe.

You can do this of course but I wrote out the recipe for people who have a minimum of equipment. There are lots of people who don't have access to a juicer or the juicer they have, like mine, makes yucky pulp!

[MysticTree]

if anyone would like an orange flavour to the frosting rather than coconut then use either dates or set honey and omit the coconut oil and coconut water and use a little orange juice and a fair amount of orange zest