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Raw Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

12/13/2010

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Dinner party.  An apartment full of people, hungry and ready to have an amazing meal.  Three different types of raw-violi, each with it's own sauce.  Hors d'oeuvres, salads, dressings, lentil-yam croquettes with herbed  beet coulis and creamy drizzle...  But I'll get to those later...

I get home from the store, with my re-usable bags overflowing with watercress and cascades of kale. I wrestle my bike through the door and Mac helps me unload the bags.  And then, I realize - I forgot the pears!  I had soaked and sprouted the pecans, sun seeds and hemp seeds for the pear tartlettes.  I was all ready to make a cheesecake filling, a cacao drizzle, a berry reduction.  But without the pears, it would've been a plain old cheesecake.  Delicious, but not new, and the night was supposed to be all about new recipes.  I didn't want to go back out into the cold.  So I looked around, and...  CARROTS!  Let's make a carrot cake.  :)

Cake:

Ingredients:
1/2 c. pecans, soaked
1/2 c. sunflower seeds, soaked and sprouted
1/2 c. hemp seeds, soaked and sprouted
3 1/2 c. chopped carrots (roughly 5 carrots)
1 t. sea salt
1 t. coriander
1 t. nutmeg
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1 1/2 - 2  g. raw stevia powder 
2 T. maple syrup
1 1/2 c. raw, dried, flaked coconut
1/2 c. dried cranberries

Directions:
Put all ingredients except for coconut and cranberries into food processor and process until it is a uniform batter.  Transfer into a bowl and add in coconut and cranberries, mixing by hand.  Spread onto a teflex sheet into a 1/2" tall loaf, then separate into little cakes using a 4" round cutter.  It should make 11 full rounds with a little left over.  Dehydrate at 104 degrees for 2 hours, flip onto screens and dehydrate for another 2-3 hours.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 c. cashews
1/2 c. maple syrup
1/2 c. fresh lemon juice
1/4 c. water
1/2 t. nutmeg
pinch of salt

Combine all the ingredients in a high speed blender.  (If you don't have a high speed blender, make sure that the cashews are well-soaked and try it in a regular blender.)

Assembly:
You can put a dab of frosting in the middle of a dessert plate to keep the cake from sliding around.  Put one cake over the dab of frosting, spread a nice thick layer of frosting over the cake, top with a second cake, another thick layer of frosting.  Garnish with fresh grated carrot and berries, mint leaves, whatever you have around.  I used dried mulberries, which were delicious and gave an extra little burst of superfood goodness.

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    Amanda has been teaching yoga, making (and eating) delicious raw/vegan food and coaching people for almost ten years.  All that experience has taught her just how much there is still to learn, explore and discover. 

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