Prep
20 minBake
20 minsServes
5 to 10Difficulty
Easy
About
Want to bake these soft, melt-in-your-mouth mini vegan carrot cakes with a tangy and delicious vegan cream cheese frosting? You're in the right place. This vegan recipe is SO easy to make and contains cupboard staples only!
How to make Mini Vegan Carrot Cakes
Firstly, start by preheating the oven temperature to 180C/350F.
In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: the flours, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, and salt, using a spoon.
In a separate bowl mix together the ground flaxseeds and the water and let the mixture stand for 2-3 minutes.
In another large bowl mix together all the wet ingredients: the oil, milk, grated carrot and Lyle's Golden Syrup. Stir with a spoon to combine. When ready, add the ground flaxseed mixture to the wet mix, stir briefly to combine.
Grease a 12-cup mini cake tin (6.5cm each) or 12-cup muffin tin.
Combine the wet and dry ingredients and the chopped walnuts.
Next, spoon the batter into the prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for about 20min or until risen and golden.
Whilst the mini cakes are in the oven combine the frosting ingredients with a spoon in a little bowl. Place in the fridge until the mini cakes are ready to be frosted.
When the mini carrot cakes are ready, remove them from the oven and allow them to cool completely.
Carefully trim off the rounded top of the mini cakes to create even, flat mini cake layers (we placed them in the freezer for 30 minutes prior, to make this process easier).
Next spread about 1 tablespoon of frosting on one of the mini cakes, top with a second, frost again and decorate to your liking with nuts, edible flours or seasonal fruit.
This recipe was created by the talented baker Kimberly Espinel who can make anything vegan and delicious!
Ingredients – 13 items
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Ingredients for the Sponge
Coconut oil
for greasing
White spelt flour
Plain flour
Bicarbonate soda
Ground Cinnamon
Pinch fine table salt
Flax seed
Water
Light olive oil
Almond milk or other plant milk
Lyle’s Golden Syrup
Grated Carrot
Roughly chopped walnuts
Ingredients for the Frosting
Vegan cream cheese
Lyle’s Golden Syrup
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