Healthy paleo carrot cake recipe

By Guy Lawrence

Big thanks to Bradley Bennett for sharing this delicious healthy paleo carrot cake recipe. I made it last week and put a picture up on our Facebook page. So due to popular demand here it is! Over to Bradley…

Ps. I made it without the optional ingredients mentioned, and it was divine.

Do you have a healthy paleo 180 recipe you would like to share with our community?

If so we’d love to hear from you. Simply email us the recipe at info@180nutrition.com.au … Guy

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 Ingredients

• 2 x carrots (1 grated, 1 blended)
• 1 cup 180 protein coconut or chocolate flavour
• 1 cup desiccated coconut (or coconut flakes/shredded )
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1-2 tspn grated ginger (approx)
• 1 tbspn coconut oil
• 8 dates (approx)
• 1/2 – 1 tspn baking powder
• 1/2 – 1 tspn of bicarb soda
• 1/2 – 1 tspn nutmeg
• 1/2 an orange grated zest
• 3 eggs
• pinch of salt

Optional ingredients

• 1 tspn organic vanilla extract
• 1 tspn maca powder
• 2 tbspn Rice malt (fructose free) or honey
• 135g walnuts (approx smashed up a little)

Method

1. Preheat the over to 170 degrees (fan forced)
2. Add all the dry ingredients together in a bowl including grated carrot, spices, 180 protein etc, except the walnuts.
3. Add all the wet ingredients to a blender (orange,honey, vanilla,eggs,dates) and 1 carrot also. (grate the other). Blend until a is a relatively smooth mixture.
4. Pour over wet mixture. Mix with a spoon until you have a loose batter. It it’s to  loose, add some more coconut flour.
5. Add in the walnuts, a little crushed. And lay out on a prepared slice tray.
6. Cook for 30-40 mins (depending on the thickness of your slice. Mine usually take around 35mins.
7. Enjoy this carrot like cake!

A couple of notes:

With the 1/2 – 1 tspn im pretty relaxed relaxed about the measurements. Guess it depends on what you like 🙂

Also the baking time may differ depending on thickness. It turns out quite moist!

Do you have a healthy paleo 180 recipe you would like to share with our Australia community? If so we’d love to hear from you. Simply email us the recipe at info@180nutrition.com.au … Guy

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