It is my pleasure to share with you another one of my favorite “healthy” desserts: Raw Carrot Cake. Berries. Edible Flowers.
The Raw Carrot Cake recipe is adapted from my cookbook, “A New View of Healthy Eating: Simple Intuitive Cooking with Real Whole Foods.” Carrot cake has been a favorite of mine for decades. As much as I love the aromatherapy of cooking raisins with cinnamon and nutmeg for a baked carrot cake, I love the simplicity and freshness of a raw, plant-based version of carrot cake. – Melanie Albert
Thanks
- Natural Awakenings Magazine, Phoenix and Northern Arizona. Thanks so much for the opportunities to create recipe articles for your publication that supports our holistic community. I am especially honored to contribute to the May 2020 issue during the Coronavirus Pandemic to share the beauty of food to our community.
- Blue Sky Organic Farms for the beautiful, bright orange carrots. I appreciate your hard work continuing to grow beautiful produce for us week-after-week and month-after-month, especially during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
- Community Exchange Table at the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market, where small local Arizona farmers and growers sell their extra bounty to our community. Special thanks for the seasonal Pakistani Mulberries, which I love every year.
- Northwest Wild Foods for the tasty, tart Gooseberries. So great to initially meet you when we filmed the segment with your Aronia (Choke) Berries for The List TV Show. So glad we’ve connected.
If you love plant-based, gluten-free desserts, enjoy our Banana Bread Recipe.
Enjoy the Raw Carrot Cake Cooking Video
- The beautiful ingredients.
- Steps to prep the ingredients.
- Mindful Plating: Food Art.
Raw Carrot Cake Recipe
I hope you enjoy creating your own beautiful, tasty raw carrot cake, with the aromatherapy of hand-grinding the cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and the mindfulness of plating food art with berries and edible flowers.
SIMPLE INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup dates, pitted and soaked for 1 hour in water, then rough chopped
- 2 cups carrots, shredded
- 1 ½ cups apple, minced
- 1 ½ cups raw cashews, ground into a fine meal
- ½ tsp cinnamon, freshly ground
- ½ tsp nutmeg, freshly ground
- ½ tsp cardamom, freshly ground
- Pinch sea salt
- Garnish: Goldenberries, Pakistani Mulberries, Edible Flowers.
Ingredients: Raw Carrot Cake. Thank you Blue Sky Organic Farms.
Pakistani Mulberries. Goldenberries. Thank you Northwest Wild Foods. Community Exchange Table Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market.
Edible Flowers. Thank you The Farm at South Mountain. Soil & Seed Garden.
SIMPLE STEPS
Raw Carrot Cake: Mise en Place.
- Gather mise en place.
- Soak dates, if they are not soft.
- Place all ingredients into mixing bowl and with hands, combine gently until the mixture forms a ball.
- Press dough into a springform pan.
- Refrigerate for an hour.
Raw Carrot Cake: Plating Mise en Place
PLATING
- Mindfully garnish with berries and edible flowers.
- Enjoy!
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By Melanie Albert, Plant-Based Culinary Leader, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition in Phoenix, Arizona. Award-winning cookbook author, speaker, corporate wellness, team building, retreat leader, and caterer.
The Raw Carrot Cake.