It is with great joy I bring you one of my favourite recipes that I have been making for YEARS…
A recipe that would take me HOURS of cooking, because I grated all the carrot by hand. It is a BIG cake… it can be completely gluten free and dairy free… and it is delicious! It has what I believe to be all the best things in a carrot cake… carrot, pineapple, walnuts and cinnamon
This conversion will bring you my new favourite Thermomix Carrot Cake… and I have to be honest, I think you're going to love it too.
It was featured in Episode 53 of the podcast – Bec's Best Birthday Thermomix Cake Recipes.
Bec’s Best Carrot Cake
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: approx. 1 hour
- Total Time: approx. 1 hour
Description
It is with great joy I bring you one of my favourite recipes that I have been making for YEARS… A recipe that would take me HOURS of cooking, because I grated all the carrot by hand. It is a BIG cake… it can be completely gluten free and dairy free… and it is delicious! It has what I believe to be all the best things in a carrot cake… carrot, pineapple, walnuts and cinnamon. I have to be honest, I think you’re going to love it too. You can of course do a traditional cream cheese icing, or even leave the cake plain, but I have converted a recipe which will allow you to have an icing while keeping the cake dairy-free. Thanks to Donna from Cafe Disarray for this one. – Bec
This recipe was featured in Episode 53 of the podcast – Bec’s Best Birthday Thermomix Cake Recipes.
Reader feedback: “I have made this cake many times! It’s always delicious!” – Angela
No: Gluten / Dairy
Contains: Egg / Nuts
*Variations: Can be made without Nuts
Ingredients
- carrot – 450g, cut in to chunks
- eggs – 4
- brown sugar – 250g
- olive oil – 130g
- golden syrup – 100g
- plain flour – 250g, gluten free
- bicarb soda – 1 tsp
- baking powder – 1.5 tsp
- cinnamon – 1/2 tsp
- pineapple – 120g tin, crushed, drained
- walnuts – 70g, roughly chopped (*can omit for NF version)
Icing:
- lemon – 1/2, peel only
- raw sugar – 250g
- dairy free spread – 50g
- pineapple – 2 tsp, crushed
- vanilla – 1 tsp, extract
- walnuts – broken up / chopped roughly (*can omit for NF version)
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 160C and line square cake tin with baking paper.
- Grate carrots (450g), Speed 5-6 / 8 seconds (remove any big pieces remaining). Set aside.
- Add eggs (4) and brown sugar (250g). Speed 5 / 20 seconds.
- Add olive oil (130g) and golden syrup (100g). Speed 5 / 10 seconds.
- Add flour (250g), bicarb soda (1 tsp), baking powder (1.5 tsp) and ground cinnamon (1/2 tsp). Speed 5 / 10 seconds, push down sides, repeat Speed 5 / 10 seconds.
- Add grated carrot, tin of drained pineapple (120g), walnuts (70g). Reverse+Speed 4 / 10 seconds.
- Pour into the prepared tin.
- Cook for 45-60 minutes. Top should be golden, and skewer should come out clean. Allow to cool before icing.
Icing:
- Add lemon (1/2) to the bowl. Speed 7 / 20 seconds. Scrape down bowl.
- Add sugar (250g). Speed 10 / 10 seconds. Scrape down sides.
- Add non-dairy spread (50g). Speed 7 / 20 seconds. Scrape down sides.
- Add crushed pineapple (2 tsp), vanilla (1 tsp). Speed 7 /10 seconds.
- Insert whisk attachment. Program 3 minutes / Speed 3.
- Refrigerate until required.
- Decorate with walnuts.
Keywords: Free Thermomix Recipe, Thermomix Sweets & Desserts
If you are looking for the Frosting recipe, you can find it here. Remember, a half serve of this recipe will cover this big Thermomix carrot cake well.
Enjoy!
trying this today – I don’t own a big square pan so I have poured it into my CT rectangle mold and am hoping for the best. Fingers crossed!
Well as long as it actually fits into it with some room to grow at the top, you should be right! It’s just there’s a lot of batter! Haha. Thanks for the icing option!
Cake looks great any suggestions for egg free? 2 tsp chia 6 Tbl water & 1 banana?
Hi Nat, thanks for asking! I wouldn’t consider us the authority on egg free, unfortunately! I have had some success in the past with grinding flaxseeds and mixing with water. I think the conversion is 2.5 Tbsp ground flax seeds and 3 Tbsp water per egg… and that gives a bit more of a nutty texture, which I think MIGHT be good with this cake?
I have made this cake many times! It’s always delicious!
Excellent!
Can I substitute the pineapple with something else?
Hi Caroline! You could try just leaving it out. It’s an enormous cake and quite moist anyway, so I feel you should be fine.
Do you peel your carrots or does it not impact flavour? Can’t wait to try this 🙂
We don’t Marina… just wash them!
Hi!
Want to make this now but don’t have any walnuts. Could I use almonds? Or leave them out? Thanks
Hi Emma! Just leave them out… Bec just likes to add them in because she likes the nutty texture (she’s a bit nutty!) Good luck!
Hi
Need to make this today
Which flour can I use if I don’t have GF flour?
Plain flour will be fine 🙂
Does the cake freeze & defrost well?
By all accounts it does!
Can you use coconut flour
Hi Chris! No, coconut flour works quite differently. It would be quite a different result. I’d have to play with it to see what the conversion would be.
This was the best carrot cake I have ever made, it was moist and very tasty, thanks so much
Our pleasure! Thrilled to hear it!
Was this made with the TM5 or TM31? I have the TM31 and wondered if this be ok to make in it
Hi Hayley! This was made in the TM31, but will be fine in either. 🙂 Thanks!
Hi. Can this be halved? Would it be loaf sized then??
Yep! You could halve it! It is a really big cake, so it would either make one large or two small loaves when halved. Let us know how you go!
hi what is golden syrup? what other substitutes can i use instead of golden syrup..tq
Hi Hema! You could use a honey, or liquid sweetener, however Golden Syrup has a deeper flavour.
I know some people have used this recipe with success:
http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/sauces-dips-spreads-recipes/homemade-golden-syrup/245891
OMG. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This cake is fabulous! I made it for my hubby’s birthday and he LOVED it (as did everyone else!) I didn’t have a square tin so used a big round tin. What size is the square tin you use? I want to buy one as it will cut into slices easier then.
So good to hear Bec! Ours is pretty big… probably 22cm square. 🙂
This was an absolutely beautiful cake, ligh and moist and huge!!!! I used square tin which is easier for lunch box cutting. Would highly recommend, I don’t bake a lot, more of a savoury cook, but will make again and again
Sounds like you like it as much as we do! Thank you so much for letting me know Sue!
Just made this cake today with my kids and omg it’s amazing. They were going to town on it as well!
So good to hear – thank you for letting us know Molly! Did you ice it?
i am highly allergic to pineapple – do think i could replace with tinned apple ?
Absolutely! In fact you can omit it completely, you just may find it doesn’t take as long to cook.
I just LOVE this cake! It is my absolute favourite. Thankyou!
Oh that’s awesome to hear, thanks Susan!
Hi Bec (n co),
I made this for a work colleague’s birthday this week as we have gluten and lactose intolerant people in our group. Everyone commented on how light and fluffy it was (they are used to dense GF cakes) I had a square cake tin which didn’t quite hold the whole mixture so I made 4 muffins with it as well!!
I only got my thermomix a week ago and I have been dying to try some of your recipes and I have yet to be disappointed- thanks so much!!
I just made this cake – absolutely perfect – thanks 🙂
This is a wonderful recipe. It made 20 muffins! I used plain flour and subbed sunflower seeds for the walnuts.
This is wonderful news! Thank you for letting us know!
Awesome! So glad you liked it Mel!
Oh great to know!