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Easy Vegan Carrot Cake Bites Recipe! These Spiced Carrot Cake Balls Need just 8 ingredients and 15 minutes. No refined sugar or oil. Roll in coconut or dress with vegan cream cheese glaze. Vegan Glutenfree Grainfree Soyfree Raw option Jump to Recipe
I can’t wait for some sunny Springy days! Meanwhile, I am making batches of these refreshing and quick Carrot Cake Bliss Balls! I made this carrot cake ice cream with roasted carrots and walnuts way back when and loved the roasted carrot flavor in it. The carrots in these balls are roasted for a bit to enhance the flavor, the get sweet and add a baked cake like profile. The carrots then get processed with the rest of the ingredients to make a dough that is shaped into balls or bars. Even with the baking, it takes just 15 mins of active time! Walnuts, spices, dates and coconut flour make these a fudgy spiced delicious treat. These would be no bake if you use raw carrots.
These Carrot Cake Energy Bites are Easy, taste like carrot cake, are grainfree, oilfree, are naturally sweetened and are ready within minutes! Lets make some.
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Step by Step Photos
Pulse the walnuts in a processor
Add the carrots, dates, spices and vanilla and pulse again. Then add the flours and pulse to make a dough.
Shape using a scoop or your hands, then roll in shredded coconut.
How to make Carrot-Cake like Carrot Cake Bites
How to make Carrot-Cake like Carrot Cake Bites - Roast the Carrots! Roasting makes them sweeter and adds a baked like flavor to the bites. If in a hurry, you can directly use raw carrots.
- Cover the dish with parchment while baking. This helps cook the carrots faster and prevents drying out.
- Pulse the larger nuts before adding the rest of the ingredients. This ensures a smoother texture.
- Use soft dates or a combination of dates and raisins or dates and sugar.
- Add lemon zest for a fresher flavor.
- Dress with just coconut or a vegan cream cheese glaze for more decadent cake like balls.
Vegan Carrot Cake Bites Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped carrots
- 3/4 cup walnuts
- 15 soft dates, (regular size), use 2 less if using large medjool
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup almond flour, add more if needed
- 3 tbsp coconut flour, or use more almond flour
- 2 tbsp shredded coconut , for coating
Instructions
- Chop the carrots into 2 inch pieces. Add to a baking dish, cover the dish with parchment (optional) and bake for at 400 deg F (200 C) for 20 to 25 mins(longer time for fatter carrots). (You can skip this step and use raw carrot, you will need a few tbsp more almond flour later).
- Add walnuts to a food processor and pulse to chop into an even coarse mixture
- Add the roasted carrots, dates, vanilla, spices and salt and process until the mixture is well combined and doughy.
- Add the almond and coconut flours and pulse again to combine. (You can also add other ingredients such as chia seeds, some vanilla protein powder etc instead of some of the almond flour)
- If the mixture is too sticky, add a few tbsp more almond flour and 1 tbsp more coconut flour and pulse. Taste and adjust flavor with a tbsp of coconut sugar or maple syrup for sweeter if needed, or add more spices.
- Shape into balls and roll in shredded coconut. Alternatively, drizzle some vegan cashew cream cheese frosting or, 3 tbsp coconut butter mixed with 1 tbsp of maple syrup, a good pinch of lemon zest and cinnamon.
- Store refrigerated for upto a 5 days or freeze.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These are incredible! Didn’t have almond flour so use all coconut. Added raisins. Absolutely Divine! And easy! Made another batch without walnuts, using sunflower seeds so they would be nuts free. Also great! Roasted the seeds and measured them the same as the walnuts. I could have used less, I think they likely weight more than the same measure of walnuts, do would use less next time. Very popular with all the big and little people! Thank you, Richa!
So glad you like it!
I made these for my wife’s birthday because she asked for vegan carrot cake balls. I was quite surprised how good these turned out. I followed the recipe exactly except I used the ultimate nut flour which contains both almond and coconut. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Awesome! So glad she liked them!
The carrot cake bites look so tasty. Any substitute for the coconut or almond flour? Thank you.
You can use all almond flour or all coconut flour if omitting one or the other, but it would be difficult to get the same flavor with another substitution.
I’ve used 2 Tbsp of shredded coconut for the dough because I didn’t have coconut flour. They are very good. I’ve had 5 of them already. I’ll put the jar in the fridge now!
Thank you for sharing!
Great idea, Sabina!
Hi Richa,
I’ve been following your recipes for quite some time since i tried to switch to a vegan diet.
Followed other pages but nothing quite hit home as your recipes.
Thank you very muchhh!
Made these today as a snack for my husband! They were awesome!
Wonderful! Thank you for the kind comment.
This was really good! I like that it has protein from the walnuts and that it is not too sweet. Great carrot cake flavor.
perfect