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Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes with Yogurt Coconut Cream frosting. Recipe. Gluten-free option

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Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes with roasted carrots and walnuts & loads of spice. Layered with a vegan yogurt coconut cream dressing. breakfast. gluten-free option. 
 
Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes with Vegan Yogurt Coconut Cream frosting | Vegan Richa
Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes with roasted carrots and walnuts and Vegan Yogurt Coconut Cream frosting | VeganRicha.com
I was thinking of what to make for the Easter weekend. With many Carrot Cakes, and Pancakes and other carrot desserts on the Interwebz, Carrot Cake Pancakes were stuck in my head. And from earlier trials (Carrot Cake Ice cream), I know I like the carrots roasted to bring out a more intense carrot and spice flavor profile.

 These pancakes have a good load of roasted grated carrots. I also added some walnuts to the mixture. You can use more carrots or other nuts or seeds. Make a thick batter, add the carrots and make fat pancakes. The pancakes are super delicious by themselves. Serve them up with maple syrup and a sliver of butter. 

 I drizzled some thick vanilla yogurt and coconut cream frosting on it. Make a thicker frosting with vegan cream cheese and sugar and even it out for the Quickest Carrot Cake for 2 ever! No baking required.

 You can use my multigrain pancake mix or gluten-free pancake mix for the pancakes. The pancakes and frosting are soy-free.

 Dont the layers of these Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes look fabulous! 

For more Easter Ideas, check out yesterday’s Big Easter round up!
For more pancakes see here.



There is also going to be a Black Bean Tofu (soy-free) on the market soon!

Step Pictures: See Recipe below

Lightly roast the carrots and walnuts.



 Make pancake batter. Add the carrot mixture to it.



 Mix to combine.



 Make pancakes. Use a spoon to shape the thick batter.



 Serve the pancakes as is with maple syrup and vegan butter.



 Or spread some cream cheese frosting or a yogurt cream frosting. garnish with grated carrots and walnuts.

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5 from 6 votes

Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes

These Carrot Cake pancakes are almost a Carrot Cake with roasted carrots, walnuts and loads of spices. Layered with a vegan yogurt frosting. Free of Dairy, egg, corn, soy. can be made gluten-free
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time35 mins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Servings: 2
Calories: 651kcal
Author: Vegan Richa

Ingredients

  • 1 (61 g) loaded cup chopped carrots or 1 loaded cup shredded/grated carrots
  • 1/4 cup (29.25 g) raw walnuts
  • 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) oil
  • 1 Tbsp ground raw sugar or any finely ground sweetener
  • 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) each of cinnamon, ginger and clove powder
  • a pinch of nutmeg

Pancake Batter

  • 1 1/4 cup (162.5 g) pancake mix
  • 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) each of cinnamon ginger powder
  • a generous pinch of clove and nutmeg powder
  • 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) vanilla extract
  • 2 Tbsp maple syrup
  • 1/3 cup (83.33 ml) almond milk
  • 1/3 cup (83.33 ml) water
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

Vegan Yogurt Coconut Cream Frosting

  • 1/4 cup (61.25 ml) non dairy yogurt I used So Delicious Vanilla coconut milk yogurt or vegan cream cheese
  • 1/3 cup (80 ml) coconut cream the thick cream that settles on the top of the can after refrigerating for a few hours or cashew cream
  • 1 Tbsp coconut oil softened
  • 1/4 cup (59.15 g) ground raw sugar or other sweetener of choice
  • 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp or more lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) cider vinegar

Instructions

  • Grate the carrots, or pulse in a blender/food processor to a coarse shred. Pulse the walnuts to small pieces. I used my blendtec. (total 1.25 cups of grated carrots and chopped walnuts).
  • In a pan, add oil and heat at medium. Add the carrot walnut mixture and roast for 3 minutes. Add the sugar and spices. Mix and cook for another 4 minutes. Reserve a Tbsp of the mixture to top the pancakes.
  • In a bowl, whisk the dry ingredients of the pancake mix. Add the spices and mix. Add all the wet ingredients to the dry and mix to combine. Add more water if needed. Keep the batter thicker than usual so it can hold a lot of carrots.
  • Add the carrot walnut mixture and mix to combine.
  • Make 4-5 pancakes. Heat a pan on medium heat. Drizzle a few drops of oil. when the pan is hot, Spread the batter to form same size circles. The batter will be thicker than usual pancake batter, so use a spoon to shape.
  • Cook 4-6 minutes each side.
  • Make the frosting: Combine everything under frosting in a bowl. Taste and adjust sour and sugar. Spread a Tablespoon or more frosting between each pancake or use this Date caramel between the pancakes to bring out the sweetness.
  • Drizzle the frosting on the stacked pancakes or apply evenly with a spatula.
  • Sprinkle the roasted carrot walnut mixture on top and serve.
  • Serve pancakes as is with maple syrup, with this yogurt cream frosting, or your favorite cream cheese frosting.

Notes

Nutritional values based on one serving

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes
Amount Per Serving (2 g)
Calories 651 Calories from Fat 297
% Daily Value*
Fat 33g51%
Saturated Fat 9.8g61%
Sodium 322mg14%
Potassium 558mg16%
Carbohydrates 80g27%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 48g53%
Protein 10g20%
Vitamin A 10895IU218%
Vitamin C 10mg12%
Calcium 326mg33%
Iron 2.9mg16%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.



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  1. These look so wonderful Richa! Carrot cake is my favourite cake and I actually probably prefer pancakes to “real” cake 😀 Your “cream cheese” frosting looks especially good too.

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  4. Wow! Do these ever look fantastic! question: If I am using a store bought gluten free flour blend that does not contain baking soda, powder or flax meal how much of each of those ingredients should I add to the pancake batter?

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    • Add 1 tsp of baking powder per 1 cup of flour. and a 1/8 tsp soda per cup flour.
      gf flour blends usually have other binding agents like xanthan gum, so you need not add flaxemeal. if it doesnt have gum, add 1 Tbsp flaxmeal per cup of flour.

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  6. Love the recipe, do you have a nut free version?
    I could use soy or rice milk for the almond milk, but for the 1/4 of walnuts…is that too much to omit?
    do you have another solution?

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  12. I could have sworn I already commented on these, oh well. Anyways, these look absolutely beautiful and delicious. I have never eaten carrot cake pancakes before and I love that you cooked the carrots beforehand….bet that totally improves the flavor and makes them sweeter!

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    • There is a pin it button on the top of the post and a P button at the bottom. click any of those to pin.
      if you have a pinterest widget installed on the browser then the button shows up on each image too.

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  25. 5 stars
    I made these today…they were great! Though they were sweet enough that we did skip the “frosting” or additional maple syrup. The texture was very nice.

    Question: Your pancake mix recipe has sugar in it. Then the carrot part has sugar. Then there is maple syrup added to the batter. Is that on purpose or should the pancake mix recipe be made without sugar for this recipe? I could see using a bit less, especially if adding the yogurt cream.

    For other readers, I used buckwheat flour from the choices listed and also we were out of spelt flour so I subbed brown rice flour for that.

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  26. 5 stars
    Well, its first time I tried making Cake that all new CARROT cake….let me tell you that it was very delicious and my Husband loved it. Thanks for the tips and recipe.

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  27. 5 stars
    I do look at nutritional info in recipes. The info given is for one serving but I can’t find how many are in a serving.
    I made these and they are awesome. I eat them with some walnut butter and hemp seeds plus a little bit of Crofton’s Apricot just fruit spread. Yummo!

    Thanks

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  28. Hi Richa, first of all, thank you so much for your great recipes. I would love to try this one…My question is, do you have a salt or sugar recipe for the rest of coconut you don’t use? Than you so much for the sharing and this awesome blog!

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  30. 5 stars
    My four children (and all of their friends) adore these! If we are having a rather large slumber party, I might substitute the flour for the Birch Benders Paleo Pancake Mix (so long as no one has an issue with eggs) or plain old Almond Flour. They seem to turn out perfectly every time, no matter how I change things up. Thank you!

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