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Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with “cream cheese” frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

Carrot cake! My favorite type of cake there is! I always say, if you want to make me a birthday cake, make it carrot cake (yes, even over chocolate!) I don’t know if it’s from my love for veggies, that carrots are orange and my favorite color, or that sweet lovely carrot cake makes me feel the SPRING joy! Whatever it is, I know for sure that I LOVE carrot cake! And when I can make them mini…well…I think we know what that means!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

I’m definitely not one to say carrot cake is seasonal either (just like pumpkin), but it does make me think of all things Spring and Easter. Happy, glorious, sunshine and warm weather! So yes, I’m sure you’re being bombarded with carrot cake treats right now, but these are one of the best and you’ll be glad you stuck around!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

My grandmother always makes her “Bunny” Carrot Cake for Easter. I used to love that adorable cake! It was 2 round sheet cakes, 1 would be cut in half to make 2 moon shaped ears, and then the entire thing would be frosted in a cream cheese frosting with shredded coconut (fur), jelly bean eyes and smile, and licorice whiskers! So adorable! Now, obviously I haven’t had that cake in years, but I do remember it fondly!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)! ad #BRMEaster #CleverGirls

I won’t be stopped from having my traditional food and treats, as you know! I decided I had to whip up my own carrot cake treat, stat! They may not be bunnies, but they are adorable mini bundts stuffed with cream cheese frosting! When I saw mini bundt pans at my grocery a few weeks ago…it was obvious what needed to be done! To make these super fancy but super easy, I used some of my favorite go-to ingredients. 1: Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour, which is already blended for you for the best taste, texture, and baking ease! It also has on of my favorite flours in it, sorghum! This gives it that light fresh “gluten” cake quality that you’d find in a typical wheat recipe. 2: Daiya Cream Cheese (I told you it was my new obsession!) 3: The easiest “fancy” toppings of Let’s Do Organic shredded coconut and Sprinklz!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

You could of course double this recipe for 4 bundts or halve it for 1, but I had 2, so here you go! Just measure out your simple ingredients, mix, pour, and bake! Then once they’re cool, dollop in the cream cheese frosting, shake on some coconut and sprinkles! Then grab a buddy and share these mini carrot cake bundts, soaking up all the Spring and Easter season joys!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

Before I give you the full recipes though, let’s chat. A few weeks ago I asked you how you like your carrot cake. Be it stuffed with pineapple, nuts, all the fixings, or plain just carrot. Cream cheese and coconut frosting or naked, maybe a drizzle? Everyone’s preferences were different, but one thing that I do not like in my carrot cake…nuts! Never ever nuts! Pineapple is okay, depending, but please, no nuts! However, I do need coconut to be included as well as a nice sweet cream cheese frosting! Those are musts for me! Tons of carrot, coconut, and that frosting!

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

Nuts just ruin it. Just like chocolate chip cookies or banana bread…please, no nuts baked IN! You would see me picking them out so I could enjoy my moist cake free of random nut bits! Anyway, bunnies don’t like nuts (or pineapple for that matter!), they like carrots…and lots of them! Which makes me wonder why bunnies aren’t orange. Fun fact! Did you know if you drink fresh carrot juice then go outside in the sun for a few hours, your skin will turn a little orangy? Right!?

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts

Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

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Mini Carrot Cake Bundts

Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with “cream cheese” frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

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Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine all cake ingredients and mix well to combine for a smooth batter.
  3. Grease 2 (8 ounce) mini bundt cake molds and pour half the mixture into each mold. (It should fill about half way up in each).
  4. Now place then in the oven to bake for 25-30 minutes.
  5. In the meantime, make the cream cheese frosting my simple mixing the cream cheese, powdered erythritol, and lemon juice together.
  6. Once the cakes have baked and you’ve allowed them to cool, flip them out on to a plate. Spoon in the cream cheese frosting into the center “dug-out”. Then sprinkles on some extra shredded coconut and festive sprinkelz!

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  • Serving Size: 1
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 Mini Carrot Cake Bundts | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Personal mini carrot cake bundts for you and a friend! Easy, gluten-free, vegan cakes with a center stuffed with "cream cheese" frosting and decorated with coconut and sprinkles! Have your cake and eat it too! Easter dessert was never so sweet (but sugar-free!)!

Simple, easy, and mighty delicious! Perfect mini carrot cake bundts for just the right amount of sweetness to bring some cheer to you day! If you don’t have someone to share the extra bundt with, why no the Easter Bunny? Did you do that growing up? We always left the Easter Bunny (just like Santa), a plate of food, like carrots and cookies! Of course he left us plastic eggs all hidden around the house to scavenge the next morning! Mutually beneficial relationship!

So tell me:

+ What’s your favorite way to eat carrot cake: waffles, porridge, CAKE, etc.?

+ Did you leave the Easter Bunny goodies? (Or still do if you have kiddos!)

My extra treat to you, a coupon to get some Bob’s Red Mills to bake these little bundts up!

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Comments

  1. Pali says

    I also prefer carrot cake over chocolate cake! I’m vegetarian and somehow always crave veggies over sweets or chocolate. I’ve always loved carrot cake. I’m definitely going to try out this mini carrot cake recipe!

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  6. Deborah Davis says

    These are so cute! Carrot cake is my favorite kind of cake. I usually make or buy one for most celebrations, so I can’t wait to make this healthier, gluten free mini carrot cake recipe. I’m sure it will be a new favorite.

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  7. kimmythevegan says

    I was never actually a fan of carrot cake until I went vegan and this sounds like the perfect recipe to try out this weekend! I love your sprinklz – they really make it so much prettier =)

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Well that’s because vegan carrot cake is where it’s at (all vegan baked goods!) 😉

      Reply

    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I know!!! You can’t get any better than veggies and sweets (and sprinkles!) Haha! Thanks Laura! xo

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you!!! I love the mini-ness! Now I wan to get a real “grown-up” sized pan too!

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  21. Wendy says

    Such cute little celebration cakes! I am excited to make these as a surprise for my gluten free daughter! Thank goodness for Bob’s Red Mill!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Really!? That’s awesome!!!! Haha! I totally want to have carrot cake as my wedding cake!!!

      Reply

  29. Miss Polkadot says

    Completely unrelated to this recipe in particular but I really like you sharing memories from childhood in these posts. It’s so sweet and I wish I could see the cake your grandma used to bake. These sound delicious, too. I actually saw mini bundt cake pans on offer at the store earlier but resisted the purchase.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you! (Did you see my hot cross buns? That’s where I get total sappy story time on you all!) I love sharing bits and pieces though!
      Go buy some mini bundts!

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  30. Nikki says

    Um… You can just start calling me the Easter Bunny. And leave me a mini Bundt carrot cake as my Easter Bunny surprise. These are so adorable and I love carrot cake. I don’t think I am a pineapple girl or a coconut Girl in my carrot cake. But I certainly am a cream cheese icing girl. And really it’s a serving of vegetables right? So I’m still staying healthy, right? Lol

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  41. Sam @ PancakeWarriors says

    You had me at carrot cake. And I will eat it any of the ways you described lol! If you get a slice with nuts, just send it over this direction ok! Love the idea of a single serve cake, I really do hate sharing my carrot cake!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      O well, I don’t think I’ll be passing up ANY carrot cake! I’ll just pick out the nuts 😉

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Haha, eh, but do we really need portion control when it comes to carrot cake 😉
      Thanks Liz! xoxo

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  46. Kelly says

    My dad’s favorite is carrot cake and I’m pretty sure he is going to LOVE these for his next bday, and of course, I already know that I will too!

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  60. Nicole says

    Love the photos and this recipe is perfect for Easter! Thanks for sharing, I’m gonna pass this on to some friends of mine who will love this.

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  61. Natalie | Feasting on Fruit says

    Double it for 4! Double it for 4! But it’s okay that you still only have two pans, we’ll just eat our first round while the second round is baking no problem at all 🙂 Actually I’ll just take an entire easter basket full of them if you don’t mind, you can just pop over to my house at 6 am easter morning and make me a very happy girl when I wake up! Because these are little cream-filled cakes are just spring time happiness at it’s most delicious. I still haven’t found that cream cheese though 🙁 I don’t like cream cheese as a spread, but I do love cream cheese frosting! And you left treats for the easter bunny? That is so strange, we never did that. No wonder he quit coming, I should’ve left him more bunny cakes!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Yea!!!!! Cause baking baby bundts is HUNGRY business!
      Yes!!! I hope you find some Daiya! I’ve only been able to find the original, but they have the strawberry flavor and a chive onion one too! AHHH!
      Did he leave you plastic eggs to find? :O

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  62. Cynthia says

    These look great. We have been craving carrot cake and these fit with our Celiac diet plan. Thank you so much. I am going to try these this weekend. Never thought of Daiya cream cheese. I have to try it. Thank you so much and have an amazing day.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      They’re made for Easter, haha! All the little “bunnies” can enjoy their own cake!

      Reply

  68. Shashi at RunninSrilankan says

    Wait – no way, I had no clue that if I drank fresh carrot juice and went outside in the sun for a few hours my skin would turn a little orangy!!! Gotta say – there’s not one day that goes by that I don’t learn something new from my blog buddies – thanks Rebecca for that fact and for these bundt cakes! They are gorgeous – especially with that dairy free cream cheese topping!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      DO IT!!! Hahaha! Let’s all make ourselves orange!!! (Too bad it is DARK and rainy today!!!)
      xoxo thank you Shashi!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I agree with both of those statements 😉 I mean…I just need carrot cake! And my mom still puts together some goodies for my brother and I!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Hahaha, it’s okay 😉 It just means we have to bake more and more carrot cakes for all the options 😉

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  77. Phoebe says

    You are seriously killin’ it with these these carrot cake creations!!! Besides carrot mug cake, I haven’t made a carrot cake in forever… I think now may be the time!
    Although I have to admit I like mine with nuts AND pineapple, but I can understand your dislike. To each her own! All is fair in love and carrot cake! 😀

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Carrot cake should be all about the CARROT hahaha! It’s not NUT cake or PINEAPPLE cake 😉

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  80. Bianca @ ElephantasticVegan says

    Ohhhh, these little carrot cakes look too cute! I imagine the coconut sprinkles go really well with the carrot cake base 🙂 Your grandmother’s bunny carrot cake sounds really sweet as well! I would have loved that as a child.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you Bianca!!! Haha, that bunny cake was awesome!!! I may have a picture somewhere…

      Reply

  85. Laura says

    How cute are these? I’m pretty sure everything is better in mini form, especially mini bundts, and especially when there is carrot cake involved!

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  92. Nicole says

    These look and sound delicious! I really enjoy carrot cake but I’ve never made one myself. This definitely sounds like a recipe worth trying. I’m a huge fan of nuts though so I would probably try to add them in there. At the same time my hubsand is a lot like you in that he doesn’t think nuts belong in baked goods, lol, so most of the time I”m forced to leave them out.

    Interesting fun fact, btw!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Make these! Super easy to start! Haha! I LOVE NUTS! But just not in baked good 😉 It’s fine if they are on top, but not baked in!

      Reply

  96. Susie @ SuzLyfe says

    I like carrot cake pretty much any way that I can just get it served to me! My thing is that there must be an appropriate carrot shred ratio. Don’t give me your carrot cake that doesn’t actually have carrots in it…

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