Delicious, Low-Carb Carrot Cake
Carrot cake is a springtime classic dessert. You always start seeing carrot cakes in stores especially around Easter time. Maybe carrot cake is popular at Easter because bunnies eat carrots. Does carrot cake attract the Easter bunny?! If so, I better start baking now!
Of course regular carrot cake is not very keto friendly. It is packed with white sugar, white flour and even the cream cheese frosting has extra carbs. Have no fear, we have made a perfect, low carb carrot cake that will be perfect for your Easter table (or any other special occasion!). We know that the Easter bunny will love this keto carrot cake just as much as his regular cake preferences.
We started off our recipe by assessing the sugar used in a regular carrot cake. Most of the time, white granulated sugar is used which we know is not good for those of us on a keto diet. So, we opted for SO Nourished granular erythritol. Erythritol is a natural, zero carb sweetener found in fruits. You can use is exactly as you would use sugar in a recipe, you may just need a touch more to match the sweetness. If you want an even richer carrot cake, So Nourished GOLD would also work. This golden erythritol will give your cake a molasses flavor and also help keep it moist. Both low carb sweeteners will work!
Next, we played around with different kinds of flour, looking for the best low carb flour to make our carrot cake tender and fluffy. A blend of almond flour and coconut flour seemed like the best fit. Too much coconut flour tends to make cakes way too dense and chewy. However, we love the subtle tropical flavor of the coconut flour in a carrot cake. So a little bit will do!
Almond flour was our second choice for carrot cake flour. Carrot cake always goes well with nuts and almond flour adds an even richer, nutty taste. Almond flour bakes nice and fluffy and also adds lots of healthy fats to this dessert. Fats are fuel for all of us keto followers!
Speaking of nuts, we added chopped walnuts into our carrot cake. You can use walnuts, pecans, cashews or even more chopped almonds in the cake batter. If you aren’t a huge fan of nuts in your cake, just skip it! With or without nuts, this keto carrot cake is amazing.
Once we had our low carb carrot cake figured out, we moved on to the cream cheese frosting. We love cream cheese frosting on carrot cake and actually just love it in general. It is very easy to make and also easy to make keto. All you need is So Nourished powdered erythritol. This light and fluffy sweetener looks and tastes just like powdered sugar. A little powdered erythritol, some butter, cream cheese and a splash of vanilla and heavy cream and the frosting is done!
We strongly recommend making this perfect keto carrot cake this Easter. Everyone from the keto dieters to the Easter bunny will love it! But why wait until Easter? Give it a try now! After all, practice makes perfect.
| Servings: servings |
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup So Nourished granular erythritol
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 1/2 pound cream cheese
- 1/2 cup So Nourished powdered erythritol
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease two 6 inch round cake pans and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, olive oil and vanilla.
- Add the almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt to the bowl and whisk to make a smooth batter.
- Fold in the melted butter, walnuts and shredded carrots.
- Pour the batter into the two prepared cake pans then bake for 30 minutes. Remove the pans from the oven and let the cakes cool in the pans.
- Make the cream cheese frosting. Beat the cream cheese, butter and powdered erythritol together until light and fluffy.
- Pour in the vanilla and heavy cream and mix until smooth.
- Frost the cooled cakes with the cream cheese frosting, spreading a layer of frosting between the two cakes as well as on the top and sides (make it pretty!) then enjoy!
NUTRITIONAL DISCLAIMER
The content on this website should not be taken as medical advice and you should ALWAYS consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. We provide nutritional data for our recipes as a courtesy to our readers. We use Total Keto Diet app software to calculate the nutrition and we remove fiber and sugar alcohols, like erythritol, from the total carbohydrate count to get to the net carb count, as they do not affect your blood glucose levels. You should independently calculate nutritional information on your own and not rely on our data. The website or content herein is not intended to cure, prevent, diagnose or treat any disease. This website shall not be liable for adverse reactions or any other outcome resulting from the use of recipes or recommendations on the Website or actions you take as a result. Any action you take is strictly at your own risk.
Dr. Rosmy Barrios, MD is an aesthetic medicine specialist whose work focuses on patients who are treated for obesity, metabolic syndrome, and other weight-related issues through nutritional analysis, keto diet programs, and supporting medications.
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