This gluten free dessert is amazingly delicious! Top it with the cream cheese frosting and you’ll have a dessert that is out of this world!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups blanched organic & gluten free almond flour (not almond meal)
• 1 tsp. Celtic sea salt
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 T. organic & gluten free ground cinnamon powder
• 1 tsp. organic & gluten free ground nutmeg powder
• 5 large organic eggs
• 1/2 cup organic agave nectar or organic honey
• 1/4 cup organic grape seed oil or organic palm shortening
• 3 cups carrots, grated
• 1 cup organic raisins
• 1 cup organic walnuts (optional)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In a large bowl, combine almond flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon & nutmeg.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together eggs, agave & oil.
4. Stir carrots, raisins & walnuts into wet ingredients.
5. Stir wet ingredients into dry.
6. Transfer batter into two well greased 9″ cake pans.
7. Bake for 35 minutes.
8. Cool cake for 3 hours, then remove from pans.
9. Top with cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup low fat cream cheese
• 1/4 cup real maple syrup from Vermont or agave nectar
• 1 T. organic pure vanilla extract

Instructions:

1. Whip heavy cream until stiff.
2. In a separate bowl, whip cream cheese until smooth, then blend in maple syrup & vanilla.
3. With a rubber spatula, gently fold whip cream into cream cheese mixture.
4. Frost your cake and serve it!