Incredible Vegan Carrot Cake

[Firefly]

 I just wanted to add to the long list of comments praising this wonderful delicious recipe.  It is a very rich cake, giving a new dimension to the standard carrot cake. I have used this recipe many times, making it verbatim to these directions as well as making some substitutions.  I have had success replacing the oil with softened earth balance margarine and replacing the sugar with fructose. Also,  I think walnuts complement the flavor and texture most in this cake. 

This is a great cake to make for anyone who doubts vegan desserts out surpass products made with dairy and eggs in every way!
 

[jenny i]

Has anyone made this without the coconut?  The recipe sounds delicious, but I am not a fan of coconut at all.

[v_gan]

I've made this twice: once last Thanksgiving, once this Halloween. For Halloween, I turned it into "Spider's Nest Cake" and piped a black spider web on top, using a homemade cream cheese frosting.

It's a wonderful cake!!

[uhblondie]

v_gan, I just wanted to say that your cake looks awesome!!! You must be really artistic. :-)

[Ginny217]

  This recipe was the best carrot cake I ever tasted.  I made it for my daughter's 26th birthday and shouldn't have announced it was vegan,(my 24 yr. old daughter is a vegan)because at first everyone thought it wouldn't taste right. It was eaten by all and all admitted it was incredibly delicious.  I omitted the raisins and used a slight bit less of the oil. I will make this recipe many times in the future.  Thanks.

[Dillmouse]

Yummm!!! This was sooooo good!!!  I added a handful of big walnuts. Picture was before I iced it.

[yoyom]

i used 1 1/2 banana's as the egg replacer and it worked very well. thanks for the recipe.

[VanillaSky]

This recipe is excellent.  I used applesauce and a banana in place of the pineapple and egg-replacer.  Added some walnuts and voila!  A recipe to take on those starship voyages...

[springtime]

I'm just about to make this cake as a christmas cake
I think it'll be awesome, great for christmas, with all the spices..

Well, I trust your comments and reduce oil and suger, sub pinapple for apple suce and warn people not to over-eat. =)

merry christmas everyone!

[springtime]

So I made this for christmas and everyone LOVED it, even though I made a tiiny mistake.

Accidently, I used rye flour instead of all purpose. But the cake worked out, not tooo fluffy, but tasty as hell.
also I subbed the pinapple and eggs for applesauce, and had more vanilla, more spice and used baking powder instead of baking soda.

well, I'll be makig it again later this evening, for my meat-loving grandfathers birthdayparty. He loved it. I'll post a pic soon.

cheers

[secondbase]

Has anyone made this without the coconut?  The recipe sounds delicious, but I am not a fan of coconut at all.

i have made this several times and it always turns out delicious. for xmas, i knew some people were coming that hated coconut, so i only used half, and none of them even noticed that there was coconut in it! i can't tell there's coconut in it when i use the full cup. make sure not to use sweetened coconut, though. that flavor is far more pungent

[escottster]

This recipe really is wonderful.  I wanted to make a two layer cake with 9" round cake pans, so I doubled the recipes for both the cake and frosting.  I had enough batter for both cakes plus 7 cupcakes, so it makes plenty batter. 

I replaced the eggs with 3 mashed bananas, and the pineapple with 3 - 3 1/2 cups of applesauce (both are for the doubled recipe).  I took it to a vegetarian new years eve dance party, and everyone loved it.

[killmecomputer]

This cake was came out fantastic. Mine came out more like brownies and there was a lot of left over icing, but I loved it. I used a lot of coconuts and pineapple chunks but I was too lazy to add carrots.

[LindsayLoo]

Haha, a carrot cake without carrots? Who knows, may just be crazy enough to work! Anyway, this recipe was really great and i was surprized concidering all the health(-ier) changes i always make to baked goods usually don't yield such a nice finished product. I subbed whole wheat flour for the all purpose, stevia equivilant to half the sugar called for, psyllium for the egg, coconut oil ( 1/8 cup less than called for) for the oil, trippled the vanilla, added a pinch of cloves, an extra tsp of baking powder, was generous with both the carrots (man, that grating was some work...), and subbed 1 cup maple syrup+6 ounces water for the pineapple. Made them into cupcakes and the crispy tops were so good i may try to make this into cookies next time. Thanks, i'm book-markin it!

[uhblondie]

If I may ask, what is psyllium? And Lindsayloo, if you come up with a carrot cookie, I would LOVE to try it - sounds delicious!