Gluten Free Carrot Cake | Low Carb Carrot Cake Recipe (2024)

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This Low Carb Gluten Free Carrot Cake is going to absolutely blow your mind! It's so good you'll swear it's a traditional carrot cake!

Why This Gluten Free Carrot Cake Is About To Become Your Favorite Cake

• Fast. Have you ever baked a carrot cake? It takes forever. This recipe is done in under an hour in your Instant Pot.
• Easy. This may not seem easy if you're used to grabbing premade icing. BUT if you like to make your own, or are eating keto, this is an easy alternative.
• Gluten Free. Perfectly allergy-friendly.
• Low Carb. 3 net carbs per serving!
• Delicious. Seriously. Have you ever tried a carrot cake? It's totally indulgent. And is easily a dessert recipe favorite.

Does Carrot Cake Contain Gluten?

Many carrot cake recipes do contain gluten, but not this one!

I'm so excited about sharing the recipe for this Gluten Free Carrot Cake with you. I feel very confident in saying that if you try this cake, you will fall in love with me (and the cake).

When I made my previous Keto Carrot Cake Recipe, I made it in an Instant Pot. I'll try this one that way as well, but this time, I baked it. You can't tell it's gluten-free, you can't tell it's no sugar added, you can't tell it's keto, and you can't tell it doesn't have flour.

And yes, you heard me right, this is actually Keto Carrot Cake. Trust me, you're not going to believe that it's low carb carrot cake when you taste it. It is just so incredibly yummy that you'll swear it's just a normal carrot cake, but I assure you, it really is gluten-free and absolutely delicious!

As much as I love my Instant Pot Carrot Cake, I love this one more, even though Mama loves all her recipes "in their own way".

Is This A Keto Cream Cheese Frosting?

Yes, it absolutely is! This cake is completely covered and filled with deliciously sweet, creamy, and completely keto-friendly cream cheese frosting. I mean, what good carrot cake doesn't have frosting? And to have a keto cream cheese frosting at that, you'll be making this cake on a regular basis--not just as an Easter Carrot Cake!

How To Make The Keto Cream Cheese Frosting

1. In a large bowl, beat softened butter, cream cheese, and cream with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally, until smooth and creamy.
2. Stir in vanilla, then stir in powdered Swerve. Add more powdered Swerve as needed until frosting is a thick, spreadable consistency.

How To Make Gluten Free Carrot Cake

1. Turn oven on to 350F and grease a 6" x 3" cake pan.
2. Mix together all ingredients using a hand mixer until the mixture is well-incorporated and looks fluffy. This will keep the cake from being dense as almond flour cakes can sometimes be.
3. Pour into the and bake for 30-40 minutes until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. For large cupcakes, bake for 30-35 minutes.
4. Once cooled, cut the cake in half horizontally and add 1/3 of the frosting keto cream cheese to the middle.
5. Cover the rest of the cake in the remaining keto cream cheese frosting.

How Do I Make My Gluten Free Carrot Cake More Moist?

For this Carrot Cake recipe, I use THREE eggs along with coconut oil to offset the dryness that can come from using almond flour in gluten free or low carb baking.

Tips And Tricks For Frosting The Cake

• Make sure that you allow the cake to cool before trying to frost it. I know, you're going to want to frost and eat it right away, but your frosting is just going to melt off if you don't allow it to cool first.
• If needed, you can cut a thin layer off of the top of the cake to make it easier to frost. A flat surface is much easier to frost.
• Make sure that you are using and not the granular kind. Otherwise, the frosting will turn out really gritty.
• Place a sheet of wax paper under the cake before frosting it. This will keep you from having to clean the plate you frost it on.

Are Carrots Keto-Friendly?

Carrots, by themselves, are not known to be particularly keto-friendly. However, it all depends on the serving size. One cup of shredded carrot has about 11-12 total carbs. This Gluten Free Carrot Cake spreads that across 8 total servings, making this dish only have 6 grams of carbs per serving.

Just one ounce of a regular carrot cake has 22 grams of carbs. 22 GRAMS PER OUNCE! My Gluten-Free Carrot Cake comes in way below that, and with only 6 grams of carbs, it certainly qualifies as keto.

Whether or not something is keto is largely dependent on how much you eat. Most anything can be keto as long as you portion it correctly.

Looking For More Great Low Carb Desserts?

• If you're looking for some delicious keto gluten-free cookies, you have gotto try these Almendrados Cookies!
• This Keto Chocolate Cake is soft, moist, light and just plain delicious.
• These little Keto Cookies won't last long! Perfect texture, 10 min prep, and incomparable taste.
• If you've never incorporated cardamom in your baking before, you have got to try this gluten-free Cardamom Cupcakes Recipe!
• This Keto Peanut Butter Cake With Coconut Flour is low carb, super moist, sweet, and all-around satisfying.

You're bound to fall in love with this Gluten Free Carrot Cake, so stop reading this and go make it right now! Then make sure to share this recipe with your friends on Facebook and Pinterest so they can enjoy it as well!

Originally Published September 20, 2019

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