Lenten carrot cake with nuts
Description
The pastry is prepared simply and quickly. This vegan carrot cake can serve as a decoration for any festive table, it’s that beautiful and tasty. Cooking it is very easy, as you can see in the step‑by‑step recipe. I hope you will also like this cake. Serve it cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Immediately prepare a baking pan, 20 cm in diameter. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper.
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Step 3
Now about flax eggs. This is a mixture of flax seeds and warm water that creates a viscous texture similar to egg. To prepare them, grind the flax seed in a blender.
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Step 4
Pour the ground flaxseed over with warm water for 2 minutes; a viscous mixture will form.
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Step 5
In a mixing bowl, combine the coconut oil, brown sugar, honey, and flax eggs.
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Step 6
Whisk the mixture with a mixer.
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Step 7
Add flour, starch, salt, leavening agent, cinnamon, nutmeg, and carrot grated on a fine grater to the prepared mixture.
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Step 8
Add chopped walnuts, but don’t grind them too finely, so that the texture remains noticeable.
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Step 9
Add the zest of one lemon and 20 ml of lemon juice. Mix everything well.
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Step 10
Mix the dough well.
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Step 11
Place the dough into the prepared pan, smooth it with a silicone spatula, shake for even distribution. Bake the pie in the oven for 25‑30 minutes at 180 °C, then for 10 minutes at 160 °C.
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Step 12
While the crust is baking, start preparing the custard coconut cream. For this, take a jar of chilled coconut milk, separate 200 grams of its thickest part for making whipped coconut cream. Pour everything that remains in the jar into a saucepan, add 15 grams of corn starch, vanilla sugar, and 15 ml of lemon juice. Mix with a whisk, cook over low heat while stirring until thickened.
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Step 13
Transfer the custard to a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, sealing edge to edge, and chill.
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Step 14
Cool the finished crust completely before removing it from the pan.
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Step 15
Trim the side edges off the cake layer, level it. Cut the cake layer into two parts.
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Step 16
Before applying the boiled coconut cream, the cake layer must be completely cooled. Spread more than half of the cream onto the bottom part of the layer.
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Step 17
Cover with the second layer of cake, spread the remaining cream. Place in the refrigerator to set for 15 minutes.
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Step 18
While the pie cools, prepare whipped coconut cream. To do this, whisk 200 g of the thick part of coconut milk with 10 g of powdered sugar.
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Step 19
If whipped cream becomes too soft while whipping, you can place it in the cold for 10–15 minutes.
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Step 20
Spread the whipped coconut cream over the top of the cake and smooth it out.
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Step 21
For garnish, you can use chopped walnuts, berries, mint or rosemary.
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Step 22
The pie is ready! You can make coffee or tea and invite everyone to the table. It turned out not only beautiful but also very tasty.