Recipe: Gluten Free Carrot Cake

Gluten free carrot cake – what?! Yes, this moist (what’s a better word to replace this – fluffy, creamy, humid?! ha-ha)…okay, back on track. This cake is moist, full of flavour, and it’s worth the time it takes to make, including grating all the carrots. Okay, time to bake up.

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups of gluten free flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
• 3 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon of ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon of ground allspice
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 1/4 cups of white sugar
• 3/4 cup of brown sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1/3 cup of unsweetened apple sauce
• 1/3 cup of canola oil
• 1/2 cup of greek yogurt
• 1/3 cup of melted butter
• 3 cups of shredded carrots

Frosting

• Pack of cream cheese
• 5 tablespoons of butter
• 2 1/2 cups of powered surgar
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla

First up, grab your 10 or 12 inch springform pan and a larger pan to create a water bath. Then, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Next, butter your springform pan and cover the outside with foil.

Then, grab a bowl and sift together the flour, baking soda, spices and salt – set it aside.

In your mixer, beat the sugars and eggs on high until well combined. Then, reduce the speed to low and slowly add in the wet ingredients – the apple sauce, oil, yogurt, and butter. Mix well until it’s all combined. Now, gently mix in the dry ingredients and the shredded carrots by hand. Be careful not to overmix.

Then, pour into the buttered springform pan and bake for 40-50 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean in the centre. Cool on a wire rack and then make the icing.

For the icing, beat the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla together until they’re fully mixed. Then add the sugar in about 1/3 cup at a time. Beat until all the sugar is added, and it’s light and fluffy.

Once the cake is cooled, spread it with frosting and eat up.

This cake is so good – it freezes well (we freeze so many things!!), even with the icing.

The icing makes a lot, so we often have a little extra dollop with each slice!