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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.
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!
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.
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
Ingredients
- 1 loaded cup chopped carrots , or 1 loaded cup shredded/grated carrots
- 1/4 cup raw walnuts
- 1/2 tsp oil
- 1 Tbsp ground raw sugar , or any finely ground sweetener
- 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, ginger and clove powder
- a pinch of nutmeg
Pancake Batter
- 1 1/4 cup pancake mix
- 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, ginger powder
- a generous pinch of clove and nutmeg powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1/3 cup almond milk
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Vegan Yogurt Coconut Cream Frosting
- 1/4 cup non dairy yogurt, I used So Delicious Vanilla coconut milk yogurt or vegan cream cheese
- 1/3 cup 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 ground raw sugar , or other sweetener of choice
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp or more lemon juice
- 1/2 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
Serving: 2g, Calories: 651kcal, Carbohydrates: 80g, Protein: 10g, Fat: 33g, Saturated Fat: 9.8g, Sodium: 322mg, Potassium: 558mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 48g, Vitamin A: 10895IU, Vitamin C: 10mg, Calcium: 326mg, Iron: 2.9mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this recipe? Rate and comment below!
This recipe is awesome I can’t wait for me and the love bug to try it.
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!
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
Recipe makes 2 servings, which is about 2-3 pancakes per serving.
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.
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.
Awesome! yes you can reduce the sugar a bit. I was going for a more carrot cake tower so they are more a dessert pancake. adjust to preference.
These look incredible! Will definitely have to try this recipe 🙂