This forgiving cake will tolerate mistakes as long as you don't forget it in the oven. You should be very careful with nut flours as they brown much quicker than regular flour.
TOOLS and GADGETS
- 2 9" round cake pans
- Parchment Paper
- Electric Mixer
- Measuring Cups, Mixing Bowls, Spatulas
TIPS and SUBSTITUTIONS
- Allulose can be replaced by other sweeteners. For Erythritol, use 3/4 Cup and add very little amount of black pepper in frosting to mask the cooling taste it causes.
- Monk fruit, you will need only 1/2 cup depending on the filler it comes with. Monk fruit (lakanto) is extremely sweet like stevia and not very easy to mix in its pure form. So it is mixed with some other material. The cheap version comes with dextrose, which is not suitable for the Keto diet. It increases blood glucose more than table sugar. Sometimes it comes with inulin, it is the healthy version.
- Using virgin coconut oil will result in a wonderful coconut aroma and is an excellent alternative.
- Be careful when baking the cake as the nut flours brown faster.
WHERE TO BUY ALLULOSE
For all the recipes using Allulose, you can purchase fine powdered Goalz Allulose here: SHOP ALLULOSE. If you want to learn more about Allulose, visit our ALLULOSE INFO page.
Keto Carrot Cake
Category
Dessert
Servings
12
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
30 min
Net Carbs
3g
Calories
400
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 Cup Allulose
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup Coconut butter or MCT oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups Almond Flour
- 1/2 cup Coconut Flour
- 1 tbs baking powder
- 1 tbs Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Nutmeg
- 5 Medium Carrots, shredded = ~ 2 1/2 cups
- 1 Cup Walnuts or Pecans, chopped
Frosting
- 8 oz Cream Cheese, softened
- 4 tbs butter, softened
- 1 Cup Allulose
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 2 tsp Heavy Cream
Directions
Cake
- Pre heat oven to 350 and line two 9 inch pans with parchment paper or grease a spring form pan
- Beat butter and allulose together
- Beat in eggs one by one
- In another bowl, combine almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder, cinamon, and nutmeg
- Stir flour mixture into the butter-egg mixture
- Fold in the shredded carrots and chopped walnuts
- Transfer the cake mixture evenly into the pans
- Bake 30 mins, start to check after 20 mins for doneness
Frosting
- Beat cream cheese, butter, allulose together until fluffy
- Add in vanilla and give it few more swirls
- Add heavy cream one tbs by 1tbs until you get the consistency that the frosting can be spread easily
- Spread the frosting over one of the cakes
- Top with the second layer cake and repeat
- Spread the left over frosting to the sides
- Sprinkle the top with walnuts
Hi Julie,
Thanks for pointing it out. Heavy cream will be in table spoons. Just don’t add all in once, add one table spoon if the consistency is fine don’t add more.
Tried this recipe and it turned out ok. But in the directions you don’t have where you add in the coconut oil and vanilla. I just through them in. Then you have teaspoons of heavy cream in the frosting list but tablespoons in the directions. Just wondering which it’s supposed to really be.
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