Carrot Lychee Cake

This is a fat free, sugar free vegan carrot cake with a pudding- ey texture that is excellent for picnic food or lunch boxes. The lychees provide enough sweetness without adding any sugar.

Ingredients (serves 8)

1.5 Cup Wholemeal Self Raising Flour
1.5 Cup Carrots, grated
3/4 Cup Ripe Lychees, skinned, pitted & lightly crushed.
5 Tablesppons Soy Yogurt
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1 Tablespoon Cold Water, optional

Method

Mix the carrots, lychees, cinnamon, vanilla and yogurt together in alarge bowl.
Preheat oven and prepare an 8 inch cake pan or loaf pan.
Slowly fold in wholemeal self raising flour and mix until smooth. The batter tends to be on the thicker side. Add a little cold water only if required.
Pour into prepared pan and tap to settle mixture down. Bake for 55 - 65 minutes depending on the oven.
Cool before slicing.

67 Comments

- - smart_ass said
  - 30 Apr 2015
    9:33 am
would never have thought to pair these 2 fruits together!

- - mom107723 said
  - 26 Apr 2015
    9:17 am
Never cooked with lychee but giving this a go.

- - bubble6369 said
  - 07 Apr 2015
    9:55 pm
what a heavenly combination! anything with lychee has me sold!

- - mom74959 said
  - 07 Apr 2015
    1:02 am
Nice to see a recipe with lychees 🙂

- - mom113991 said
  - 21 Mar 2015
    11:53 am
this sounds very different. but im willing to try it! 🙂

- - silverfoot said
  - 18 Mar 2015
    10:40 am
Reading this recipe has made me hungry …!

- - meljware said
  - 17 Mar 2015
    2:54 pm
This looks tasty! Love that it is refined sugar free! Thanks for sharing!

- - mom105503 said
  - 02 Mar 2015
    12:46 pm
This sounds really unusual but super easy, I will have to keep an eye out for lychees at my local fruit and veg store.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 28 Feb 2015
    11:45 pm
Such a different and interesting combination

- - jodiev1980 said
  - 28 Feb 2015
    6:32 pm
This sounds so interesting. Such a different flavour combination.

- - rachkap said
  - 26 Feb 2015
    1:48 am
Sounds so healthy and tasty

- - mom57808 said
  - 16 Feb 2015
    8:12 am
THIS IS QUITE NICE JUST ADD A SIDE SALAD

- - mom62624 said
  - 15 Feb 2015
    7:21 am
This is such an interesting combination; it looks delicious and sounds so simple to make, thanks for sharing!.

- - michelle_green said
  - 09 Feb 2015
    8:41 pm
What an amazing recipe. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂

- - mom90758 said
  - 07 Feb 2015
    3:00 pm
This recipe looks very interesting. I’ve never cooked with lychees!!

- - mom93821 said
  - 07 Feb 2015
    7:31 am
A cake that makes ‘vegan’ friends pretty happy.

- - mom94125 said
  - 06 Feb 2015
    4:15 pm
yummy this looks really good. i haven’t made a recipe with lychee in it before so this is a new recipe for me
- mom94125 replied
  
  08 Jan 2016 , 1:11 pm
  now is the perfect time of year to try this out. lychees are for sale everywhere!
- - mom109229 said
  - 04 Feb 2015
    6:28 pm
This looks really interesting! Thanks for posting!!

- - am1979amanda said
  - 02 Feb 2015
    6:48 pm
Yummy will try this

- - kjgarner said
  - 31 Jan 2015
    12:15 am
Thank you very much for sharing!