Well that’s a mouth full, isn’t it?
This cake is probably my most favorite cake I’ve ever made. Which is silly because it’s so so simple. Simple and delicious. That’s my favorite kinds of food.
I’m watching ‘Sixteen Candles’ right now. What a classic. I miss movies like that. The ones that were produced before I was born.
Oh sh*t, I’m watching ‘The Breakfast Club’ now. BEST NIGHT EVER.
So I’m heading to South Dakota today. Got a sweet little wedding reception to go to. We’re staying at a cabin, going to a lake, drinking some ice cold beverages, and probably eating a lot of food. The bride likes to eat, which is why I really like her, among other reasons, so we will be chowing down on a regular basis. Let’s talk about what I’m packing in my cooler to share with the other lovely people going.
- A sweet potato and chorizo egg casserole
- A potato and breakfast sausage egg casserole
- This delicious carrot breakfast protein cake
- Chocolate zucchini muffins from my zucchini bread recipe
- Bacon wrapped cream cheese stuffed jalapeños
- Food Should Taste Good sweet potato chips
- Chili Lime plantain chips from Sprouts
- Sandwiches for the lake made with gluten free bread, kerrygold cheddar cheese, turkey and ham (wish me luck that this bread doesn’t taste like balls)
- Larabars
- Quest Bars
- Fruit and nut trail mix – almonds, pecans, cashews, dried mango, and raisins
- Chocolate and nut trail mix – almonds, pecans, cashews, dark chocolate drops (fancy m&m’s), and dark chocolate peanuts
- Coconut water
- Strawberry flavored soda water
- Lime flavored soda water
That’s all I got. I think. I’m sure a few other snacks made it in there. No, not all of these foods are paleo. Neither are my friends. And I like making them happy. That’s the point of spending hours in the kitchen getting ready for a 3 day trip.
Moving on. I’m actually really excited about this trip now, mainly because now I get to take a couple rest days. I did CrossFit and ran every day for 6 days in a row, and I’m slightly miserable. When I was competing in CrossFit, it was normal to feel this miserable. But now I don’t really like that feeling. I like feeling sore. I like feeling like a worked hard. But I don’t like feeling like my limbs may snap if I step on a crack wrong. And that’s how I’m feeling right about now. My ankles, my wrists, my shoulders. They are all about to break. Is the age of 25 when I start to break down? My friend Kam said it was. What a bummer.
kloveyoubye!
Carrot Breakfast Protein Cake
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- 2 large carrots, finely shredded
- 2/3 cup almond butter
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons raw honey
- 35 grams (or 1 heaping scoop) Vanilla Primal Fuel (or 2 tablespoons coconut flour if you do not eat use protein powder)
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Shred carrots as thin as possible. Place in large bowl.
- Add almond butter and eggs and mix well.
- Then add honey, protein powder, cinnamon, baking powder and salt and mix well.
- Fold in raisins.
- Grease an 8×8 glass baking dish with coconut oil, pour batter into the dish and place in oven. Bake for 35 minutes or until the top of the cake has a nice crust to it.
- Let cool before cutting.
Notes
Makes 8 pieces of cake
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More Ways to Use Protein Powder:
Protein Banana Bread Breakfast Bars
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This is fabulous! Just made it – delayed one day because I couldn’t get on the website – but it was worth the wait!!!! I don’t like raisins so I used fresh blueberries in half and added cinnamon. I also am planning to spread some 2% Fage on it when it cools (because it tastes like cream cheese to me) This is definitely going to be made again and again. Thanks for the great recipes!
Are you serious….I was just thinking, “I wish there was some way to make carrot cake semi-paleo…Juli likes to bake, I should post on her website and ask if she could experiment with that!” I typed paleomg.com into my browser and this was the very first thing I saw!
Ok. Made these. 5 stars!! Outstanding. Juli, seriously. You have taught me how to cook! You have the absolute best taste buds and chef mind. So I used some of the other ingredients I had to whip up a PaleOMG inspired “cream cheese” frosting/topping for this cake, and it’s damn near close, but I still have my training wheels on. Ruh roh! I was wondering if you could help me perfect it? Here is what I put in the food processor:
-2 overflowing spoons of raw cashew butter
-1/2 a spoon of ghee
-1/2 a spoon of honey
-1/2 a spoon of applesauce
-little cap full of apple cider vinegar (to taste)
-juice 1/2 of lemon plus a little zest
-splash vanilla
-2 shakes of cinnamon
-dash salt
sorry I don’t speak in proper measuring 🙂 again this is really close, but needs your love. Or a makeover. I love those. Thank you!
Amazing. There are no words to express my excitement over this post. Any chance you have a paleo “cream cheese frosting” recipe too? I am turning 30 in 2 weeks (eeek! and you think 25 is bad…). I would love to bring these on our Dirty Thirty trip to Jackson Hole. Cheers!
haha no cream cheese recipe here but im sure you could find one!
Whoo! You are my favorite Juli! I probably say that every time you post a new recipe but hey, still being genuine.
This was awesome. You people reading this, stop reading and just go make it.
You got to visit my wonderful state!!! What part of South Dakota did you visit? I live on the eastern side of the state. Hope you had a blast! Also… Super excited to try the carrot cake breakfast!!!! Love, love, love carrot cake.
Great tasting paleo like cake! we used coconut flour instead of protein powder.
This smells amazeballs but I think I burnt it – either 35 min was too long for my oven or I didn’t hear it beeping oops!
This is amazing! I used coconut flour so it is moist and fluffy, perfect at 35 min in my oven. Next time I’ll try chocolate protein powder and add some walnuts, but not soon because I just ate half of it by myself.
Thank you Juli! I have done a lot of your recipes and this is one of the best ones on your site! Or probably I just love carrot cake.
Delicious. We love it. My 2 year old is in Heaven. Carrots, raisins, almond butter, cinnamon- all his favorite things! Love how simple and not overly sweet it is, also that it is not dry like a lot of coconut flour recipes can be.