This deliciously soft and moist frosted carrot cake is the only keto carrot cake recipe you will ever need.
Classic keto carrot cake
I’ve been getting a ton of reader requests to come up with an easy and secretly keto carrot cake recipe that is perfect for Easter or any time you crave carrot cake.
If you try today’s ultimate flourless two layer carrot cake, topped with a thick and creamy homemade cream cheese frosting, hopefully you will agree with everyone who’s tried it so far:
This recipe was absolutely worth the wait!
Also be sure to try these Keto Cookies
Sugar free carrot cake ingredients
What sweetener to use?
For the cake in the photos, I used Lakanto Classic Monkfruit.
If you are serious about wanting your keto baked goods to turn out well, I highly recommend using this as your sugar replacement, because it’s measured the same way as sugar and will give you very similar results in most recipes, without sacrificing any of the delicious taste or texture.
The zero calorie sweetener contains no net carbs, no artificial flavorings, and no sucralose or maltodextrin, with a zero rating on the glycemic index. It can work with ketogenic, low carb, diabetic, candida, paleo, vegan, low sugar, non-GMO, and all-natural diets.
What flour to use?
The recipe calls for finely ground almond flour, which isn’t really flour at all. It’s simply almonds that have been blended into a flour-like consistency.
For a cake made with regular flour, try this Vegan Carrot Cake.
I have not tried the keto recipe below with any flour other than almond and do not recommend subbing coconut flour unless you want to experiment by playing around with the other ingredients. (Coconut flour cannot usually be substituted 1-for-1 in a recipe calling for almond flour, because it soaks up liquid like a sponge.)
Keto cream cheese frosting
Feel free to frost the carrot cake with your favorite vanilla or cream cheese frosting or with melted coconut butter. I used the following homemade frosting recipe:
- 8 oz cream cheese or vegan cream cheese
- 4 oz butter or vegan butter
- 2 cups powdered monkfruit (or powdered sugar)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Bring the cream cheese and butter to room temperature. Beat all ingredients until smooth, slowly adding a little milk of choice as needed.
Keto carrot cake cupcakes
If you want to make cupcakes instead of cake, simply halve the recipe below and bake in a lined muffin tin, or two mini muffin tins, at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
It will take 10 minutes for mini carrot cake muffins or 15 minutes for regular ones. I prefer the mini ones because they have a lighter fluffy texture… and you can eat more of them!
For nut-free cupcakes, try these Healthy Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Keto carrot cake recipe video
Above, watch the stp by step recipe video
Keto Carrot Cake
Ingredients
- 4 cups fine almond flour (a nut free version is linked above)
- 1/2 cup granulated sweetener (I recommend Lakanto Monkfruit)
- 1 cup shredded carrot
- 4 large eggs or flax eggs
- 2 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- optional 1 tsp pure vanilla extract, handful crushed walnuts, pinch cinnamon, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease two 8-inch pans and line with parchment. Stir all ingredients very well, then spread into the pans. (Watch the step-by-step recipe video above.) I've found that pressing down with a second sheet of parchment helps to get the batter evenly into the pans. Bake 20 minutes on the oven center rack. Make sure to let cool completely so the cakes don't break when you go around the sides with a knife and then pop out. Frost with your favorite icing or with the cream cheese frosting recipe I've included above. View Nutrition Facts
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WOW that carrot cake looks just like regular flour and sugar carrot cake! My parents are watching their carb intake (not 100 percent keto but we are trying to eat as keto friendly as possible). This is going to be perfect for Easter. I’ve already put all the ingredients on my shopping list 🙂
I made it last night. VERY moist and everyone loved it! My teenage son had seconds 😂
I am absolutely making this for Easter dessert. Thank you so much for all the keto recipes!
Love this! What a perfect springtime cake.
I do have to be egg free, but that is a lot of flax egg! Have you tried it that way in using flax egg? just concerned about the rise without real eggs.
I’ve made her chocolate keto cake recipe with flax eggs and it works well. It’s a double layer, so it doesn’t really need to rise much and it still looks good in the end!
I can’t even tell you how excited I am about this cake! I’ve made your chocolate keto cake twice and both times even the non low carb folks loved it. Please keep the sugar free recipes coming, they are very much appreciated!
I’m going to buy the monkfruit on Amazon because I don’t want to have to buy $75 worth of sugar to get free shipping. Is there a way to use your discount on Amazon if I buy from the same company?
I saw the granulated one at wegmans yesterday after seeing Katie’s post, so I just bought it there, along with everything else needed for the recipe. Going to make this today! I’ll comment again after I do😄🥳
Waiting for your comment…….
Just purchased on amazon. TY for this suggestion!
Costco has a huge bag cheaper than anywhere that I’ve seen. They also have a large bag of ultra fine blanched almond flour cheaper also
Sugar free carrot cake never looked so good! I’m trying to follow a keto diet and am going to make this for me and my MIL (who is also on the diet) so that we can all enjoy the same Easter dessert together this year with the rest of the family.
We love your recipes (especially the keto muffins). As others have said, thank you so much for providing these recipes. Now if you could come up with some keto cinnamon rolls 😉
Thank you!!!!!!!! I was one of the ones asking for this!
This carrot cake turned out SO well. I used fine blanched almond flour, the sweetener you recommended, and a frosting recipe from a different blog.
The cake was so moist and soft you would never know there isn’t real flour in there. One of my favorite keto desserts I’ve tried so far!
What frosting recipe did you use ?
It looks amazing! May I ask, what is the difference between using erythritol and monk fruit? I noticed Katie recommended erythritol in previous recipes, but this one calls for monk fruit! Thanks in advance ^_^
We had just never tried the monk fruit blend before, which is why her previous recipes called for plain erythritol. The Lakanto blend has less of a cooling taste, and monk fruit is not a sugar alcohol.
Thanks for the reply! I was worried about the cooling taste since it was a bit strong the last time I tried monk fruit sweetener. Is it still very noticeable after baking?
The monk fruit sweeteners still have erithritol in it as an ingredient, just less of it; therefore you get less of that weird cooling taste than a straight erithritrol sweeteber.
Hi Butter,
Sadly, although a lot of packages say MONKFRUIT Sweetner, it’s important to look at the ingredient list. You’ll find most of them are Erythritol with monkfruit FLAVORING. Although today you can find Monkfruit Sweetner and the main ingredient is Allulose with monkfruit extract or flavoring.