Recipe Directions

  • 1. Place carrots in food processor by themselves. Process them very briefly - just to reduce them to littler chunks - about the size of pieces of popped popcorn. Leave carrots in food processor.
  • 2. Now add all cake ingredients into food processor. Process briefly and slowly, stopping to monitor the process. You want to get the texture seen in the above pictures - you want to be able to see small chunks of carrots, walnuts, etc. Do not over-process!
  • 3. Press cake down into a cake pan or square baking dish. Alternatively, you can shape the raw carrot cake mixture into a "cake" shape on a plate using your hands.
  • 4. Place all icing ingredients into a high-speed blender and blend until smooth.
  • 5. Ice cake.
  • 6. Refrigerate this raw carrot cake recipe for at least two hours. The cake and the icing will both harden up a bit in the fridge.

The Rawtarian's Thoughts

By The Rawtarian

This raw carrot cake recipe strangely mimics the texture of cooked carrot cake - without the need for dehydrating. Just throw the ingredients in the food processor, form into a cake shape, ice with your preferred icing and pop into the fridge.

Depending on how you'd like to use your cake, you can press the cake mixture down into a cake pan, or you can mold it into a cake shape on a plate using your hands.

This recipe keeps surprisingly well - for 4 days or so. You can make this in advance and it holds its shape and does not get soggy (provided that you did not overprocess the cake).

This raw carrot cake recipe should always be kept in the fridge.

No dehydrator required for this recipe! (However, if you want a dehydrated raw carrot cake recipe for some reason, I do have a completely different dehydrated raw carrot cake recipe right here.)

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Nutrition Facts

Nutritional score: 78 out of 100
  • This recipe is very low in Carbohydrates, and Sodium.
  • This recipe is low in Calories.
  • This recipe is a good source of Protein, Iron, and Vitamin B6.
  • This recipe is a noteworthy source of Dietary Fiber, and Vitamin A.

Amounts per 100 g (4 oz) suggested serving

NameAmount% Daily
Calories 403 16 %
Protein 8 g 15 %
Fat 31 g 39 %
Carbohydrates 29 g 8 %
Dietary Fiber 4 g 13 %
Sugars 16 g
Calcium 48 mg 5 %
Iron 2.6 mg 20 %
Sodium 74 mg 3 %
Source: USDA, The Rawtarian

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No I didn't soak the nuts. Maybe it was just
how I processed the mixture. Will see how I go next time :)

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Hi Rebecca, Could be! If you make it again let me know how it turns out :)

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I've never made a raw cake but I would like to try. Could I cut this recipe in half, both the cake and the icing to try it?

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Hi Kimberley, you can probably cut the cake recipe in half and it would be fine. Unfortunately, you won't be able to half the icing recipe. This is because when making food in a blender it needs a certain amount of volume to properly blend - otherwise stuff will just bounce around in the blender. However, you can use half the icing for the cake and use the other half for a nice fruit dip.

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This was amazing!! Everyone loved it! My youngest son (1,5) was crazy about it, and he is use to be hard to please! :)

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Hi Malin, that's what I call a success!

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I made this cake for a friend's baby shower yesterday. The flavour was beautiful & the mixture was nice & moist but I found the cake too crumbly when I tried to slice it so I ended up rolling the mixture into balls & serving them in cupcake patties instead. I'm pretty sure I processed the mixture for the correct amount of time so any ideas as to why this happened? Not that I'm complaining, they still looked & tasted great but I was just curious. I absolutely adore all your recipes, keep them coming!

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Hi Rebecca, interesting why it was crumbly for you. I definitely didn't have that prob. Did you soak your nuts in advance? Sometimes that can remove the oils and change the texture of the recipe. (I did not soak mine)

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Do you have a good sub for raw shredded coconut? I don't mind the oil or yogurt in coconut but I just cant get past the texture of the meat, I always hated it. You use it quite a bit in other masterpieces so I'll keep my fingers crossed!

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Hi Samantha, you can use hempseed hearts instead of coconut in this recipe

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This cake is amazing! Even better than the real thing!

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Phyllis :)

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Dear, how long can this cake stay out of the frige once done? I would like to take it to the office amd there is no fridge... Does it melt?
Hugs

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Hi Artemis, I think you'll be find if it's out for maybe 4 hours. The icing will soften up quite a bit, but it should be okay (unless it's like the middle of summer or something)

Also, maybe you could pop it in the freezer for 1-2 hrs in the morning before you go to work that day to give it a head start at being cold

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Hello lovely lady,

I am writing to you from beautiful Sydney, Australia. Your website was noted by my equally lovely yoga teacher, Martine, as one of her favourite new food sites. She in particular was singing the praises of your raw brownie recipe. Well, that day I had to give it a try. It was a fabulous success with the whole family. I couldn't believe that such few simple ingredients would be soooo amazing. I am in love with you and your website and am considering becoming a rawtarian too. I have also made the lemony coconut slice (incredibly good), the raw carrot cake (wonderfully decadent) and the chocolate chia pudding is in the fridge setting as I write. As you can see I have a sweet tooth and have only made the sweet things but I have checked out the savoury things and am going to get a dehydrator soon. Lots of love and best wishes to you and keep up the fabulous recipes.

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Hi Mena! You are lovely. And you have a wonderful way of picking really good recipes to make! xoxxox

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This looks delicious, but before I try it - can this be frozen to be kept for longer than 4 days?

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Hi Alex, yes you could freeze then let it defrost later when you want to eat

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I noticed in virtually all of your recipes you don't soak the nuts. It is important to soak nuts for easier digestion...

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Hi Dodi, in an ideal world nuts can be soaked yes, but for many busy people it is not realistic. But I don't disagree with you :)

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Perhaps you could use sweet potato or butternut squash as substitutions for carrot? They are both quite 'dry' vegetables but still sweet like carrots.

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Hi Lizzy, excellent suggestions! If one goes that route it might be good to add a bit more sweetness too since the carrots are pretty sweet, so you might need to make up for the lack of carrot-sweetness - if that makes sense!

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Oh I am so excited to make this recipe!!!
Just a quick check, you mention food processor for cake and blender for icing...
Can I use my Vitamix for the whole recipe???
Can't WAIT!
Carrot cake is my hands down favourite!!!

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Hi Jacaleen, noooo don't make the whole thing in your VM, the cake part won't work...

The reason is that the VM needs more liquid in order to process stuff properly - so because the cake part is more dry it will just be a chunky mess.

You definitely need a food processor AND a blender.

You can get a cheap food processor ($50 or so) is fine.  Here is the cheap food processor that I own - it gets bad reviews on Amazon but it's cheap and it's the one I've been using for almost 4 years! I don't have a problem recommending it, it's the Black and Decker Quick and Easy: http://tinyurl.com/avdwva4

basically, blender is for liquidy stuff (smoothies, icing, soup, sauce) and food processor is for dryer stuff (brownie, cake, cookie dough etc)

Listen to me talk about this for half-an-hour here: https://www.therawtarian.com/rfp07-raw-appliances

:)

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Oh. My. GAWD. I made my transition from vegan to raw with this app & every recipe I try is that much better than the one before... However, this takes the cake (pun intended)! It's funny, I thought it would take so much discipline to go 100% raw... But I never got to eat carrot cake before! And I actually like it better than baked carrot cake. Go figure. Going raw has been the easiest thing I've ever done! And the most delicious ;) thank you!!!!

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