Vegan Carrot Spice Cake

VEGAN CARROT SPICE CAKE

Adapted from 1000 Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp pp spice
1/2 tsp ginger
1 cup sugar
1/2 very vanilla soy milk
2 tsp vannila
1/2 canola/veggie oil
1 tsp honey
1/4 cup raw steel cut oats ( would be fine without outs, or with rolled oats)
10 dates , pitted chopped
2 cups finely shredded carrots

Frosting .
1 cup powdered sugar,
1/2 cup cocoa unsweetened
1/4 cup chocolate soy milk
1/4 oil
pinch cloves, pinch pumpkin spice

Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, mix the honey, oil, sugar, soymilk and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices and oats. Then, slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing simultaneously. When combined, fold in the carrots and date. Pour into a lined cake pan and bake for 45 minutes.

For the frosting, simply whisk the ingredients together, adding the  powdered sugar gradually as a thickening agent. Pour over the baked cake and let it set. (Pics with Blackberry...sorry)


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Curious... Is anyone else who is trying to eat vegan, or who has tried to eat vegan in the past noticed a change in hunger levels? Also, my dad is concerned i'll eat too many carbs on a vegan diet and since im not the skinniest girl on the block, I share the concern. The last think I want to do is gain weight.  So, now I'm considering switching to vegetarian but cutting out bread, rice (unless its brown), pasteries, sweets, and most processed foods. This would still be giving up things I like for lent, but hopefully healthier?
::sigh::

Lent : Day Two

Gotta be accountable somehow.  So I had one of my flourless chocolate cakes sitting at home and I can't eat it anymore. So what did I do? Took it to school of course.

There I sat, working on my law journal assignment all day, smelling the tempting odor of chocolate for a good 10 hours, meanwhile attempting to cajole my peers into devouring the chocolate abomination.

It is now 7:45 pm, and 3/4 of the cake is gone. My only hope is that the boys in Trademark Law will be seduced by the cake as others were and finish her off.

My goal: to go home with an empty plate and happy customers.

Daily Drinks:
Soy latte
Orange juice + soy protein "smoothie"
Water....

Daily Eats:
banana
cashews and dried cranberries
two small honeycrip apples
Pasta w/ sundried tomato and herbs
mixed greens with balsamic vinegar

Observations: Smells are much more pungent, whether it is the loner smoking a cigarette outside of the building, the smell of my chocolate cake, or the wavering perfume on a class mate. Tastes too are much more vibrant -- when cafeteria food actually has variance in flavor you know something odd is going on.