Happy Birthday Megan! I hope you have had a lovely day celebrating your birthday with your family and friends!
The cake is beautiful! We all like carrot cake and would be such a treat to be able to enjoy it again! I like the idea of applesauce versus crushed pineapple. This is a little different in a good way. April also has a plethora of birthdays in our families, this would more than fit the bill nicely.
THANK YOU for the recipes!!! I've been discouraged with my few, in-edible tries. DH will SO appreciate your courageous trial-and-error final results; thank you for your tenacity. We'll let you know our results.
I have been gluten free& dairy free for three years. Since I am at retired age and having loved cooking and baking for our family for so many years, changing diet and recipes hs been a challenge. Your site is the first one I have found to have wonderful recipes that turn out superb! I am so grateful for your recipes and have only recently been able to bake bread again as well as wonderful cakes nd muffins that our family and grandchildren enjoy too!, thanks to your baking ideas.
Whoa, I've missed vising your blog. Love the new look! I'm going through my emails and slowly catching up on what my blogging peeps have been up to. I hope you had a great birthday. And this cake looks amazing!! I have to tell you...
I've also experimented with a carrot cake in the last two weeks. I saw your recipe and I was like, wow, we love the same cake! I've been experimenting with a recipe to make for spring. Spring is here and I love the use of carrots this time of year. We are set to harvest our garden carrots here in a couple of weeks, so I can't wait to use those in the cake (well, I'll make cupcakes next time, as the cake I made was way too much and rather rich for my taste). With baking I give myself a few trial runs before I present the final product.
Our recipes are very similar, but we do use the same ingredients in our everyday cooking/baking after all.
Something I was interested in doing was making a "cream cheese" frosting using cashews. I remember my Gramie's carrot cake slathered with thick sweet cream cheese frosting. The dairy free version turned out rather well I have to say. But I LOVE your frosting recipe too. It looks so pretty and white.
Well it's great to be back and catching up with everyone.
Hugs to you, Megan.
P.S. I have a picture of my carrot cake on FB if you're interested in checking it out. 🙂
My family loves this! They couldn't tell it's gluten free. 😀 the only issue I had was it was very sticky, a little too much for my kids' taste so I figure that I will just keep it in the oven a little longer next time.
I made this for our Easter meal and it was AMAZING!!! I used my sorghum/tapioca/millet mix for the 2 total cups of flours, added cardamom with my spices, and had to use banana because my sister can only have certain types of apples and I didn't think about that until right before I made the cake. You couldn't tell it was GF!!!! It will definitely be made again!!!
Vicky says
This is AWESOME!!!! Happy, Happy Birthday Megan xoxoxoxo
Megan says
Thank you, sweet Vicky! xo
Kari says
What different oil would you recommend since I'm allergic to coconut! So excited for this recipe since it doesn't use coconut flour or flakes!
Megan says
Hi Kari, I think olive oil would probably work just fine. Glad this recipe will work for you with the oil change!
Katie @ Produce on Parade says
Happy Birthday, Megan!! 🙂 Mine's in less than two weeks. April Birthday Buddies!! 🙂 I hope it was lovely 🙂
Megan says
Katie!! Thank you! We need to get together and celebrate! 😉
Kate {Eat, Recycle, Repeat} says
Happy happy birthday Megan! This carrot cake looks amazing 🙂
Megan says
Thanks so much, Kate!! Hugs from across the miles! 😉
Joanne Peterson says
Happy Birthday Megan! I hope you have had a lovely day celebrating your birthday with your family and friends!
The cake is beautiful! We all like carrot cake and would be such a treat to be able to enjoy it again! I like the idea of applesauce versus crushed pineapple. This is a little different in a good way. April also has a plethora of birthdays in our families, this would more than fit the bill nicely.
Hugs,
Joanne
Joanne
Megan says
Thank you so much, Joanne!! I had a great day yesterday! And thank you for the compliments on the cake. 😉
xo,
Megan
Sharla says
April 2 is also my sister's birthday, and carrot cake is her favorite birthday cake! Thanks!
Megan says
You bet, Sharla! And Happy Birthday to your sister! 😉
Gina B says
Oh this looks so good! One of my fav's, thanks for sharing!! Might make it for my girls' birthday.
Megan says
Thanks, Gina! I know you'll love it!
Laura @ Gluten Free Pantry says
Happy, Happy Birthday Megan! I hope you had a fabulous time celebrating with your family yesterday. As always, this cake looks amazing!!
Megan says
Hi Laura! I had a wonderful day yesterday, thank you! 😉
danielle says
Megan,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Mine is in 3 weeks; April rocks!
THANK YOU for the recipes!!! I've been discouraged with my few, in-edible tries. DH will SO appreciate your courageous trial-and-error final results; thank you for your tenacity. We'll let you know our results.
danielle
Bev says
I have been gluten free& dairy free for three years. Since I am at retired age and having loved cooking and baking for our family for so many years, changing diet and recipes hs been a challenge. Your site is the first one I have found to have wonderful recipes that turn out superb! I am so grateful for your recipes and have only recently been able to bake bread again as well as wonderful cakes nd muffins that our family and grandchildren enjoy too!, thanks to your baking ideas.
amber says
Happy Birthday Beautiful Megan!
Whoa, I've missed vising your blog. Love the new look! I'm going through my emails and slowly catching up on what my blogging peeps have been up to. I hope you had a great birthday. And this cake looks amazing!! I have to tell you...
I've also experimented with a carrot cake in the last two weeks. I saw your recipe and I was like, wow, we love the same cake! I've been experimenting with a recipe to make for spring. Spring is here and I love the use of carrots this time of year. We are set to harvest our garden carrots here in a couple of weeks, so I can't wait to use those in the cake (well, I'll make cupcakes next time, as the cake I made was way too much and rather rich for my taste). With baking I give myself a few trial runs before I present the final product.
Our recipes are very similar, but we do use the same ingredients in our everyday cooking/baking after all.
Something I was interested in doing was making a "cream cheese" frosting using cashews. I remember my Gramie's carrot cake slathered with thick sweet cream cheese frosting. The dairy free version turned out rather well I have to say. But I LOVE your frosting recipe too. It looks so pretty and white.
Well it's great to be back and catching up with everyone.
Hugs to you, Megan.
P.S. I have a picture of my carrot cake on FB if you're interested in checking it out. 🙂
Becky Bowen says
My family loves this! They couldn't tell it's gluten free. 😀 the only issue I had was it was very sticky, a little too much for my kids' taste so I figure that I will just keep it in the oven a little longer next time.
Jessica says
I made this for our Easter meal and it was AMAZING!!! I used my sorghum/tapioca/millet mix for the 2 total cups of flours, added cardamom with my spices, and had to use banana because my sister can only have certain types of apples and I didn't think about that until right before I made the cake. You couldn't tell it was GF!!!! It will definitely be made again!!!
Megan says
Jessica!! Thank you so much for your sweet comment! I'm so happy you enjoyed it. 😉 Makes me happy! YAY!