Carrot Cake with Vegan Cream Cheese Icing

"Slow down. Be intentional. Notice the energy you are bringing into this space and moment"     -Brendon Burchard

 Hi Friends. 
So this one is actually a super easy mug cake that I just made fancy because well... it's Sunday and I felt creative. So no need for the smear of cream cheese or the cut up pieces of cake, you can literally keep the cake in a mug and put the frosting right on top of it. #awesome 
lately I've been crazy busy with 2 jobs, this blog, a T-shirt line and martial arts so I've been thinking of doing a detox/cleanse to at least give my digestive system a bit of R&R ....I was wondering if you guys wanted to see details of the detox here? I would love to start posting more about the vegan lifestyle and fitness instead of all just food recipes posts. so let me know if that would interest you guys. In the meantime though.. enjoy this Carrot Cake recipe. 

Vegan Carrot Mug Cake with Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting 

5 minute Prep time (for cake and frosting) 

2 minutes to make in microwave

Mug Cake Ingredients 

5 Tbsp Shredded Carrots 

6 Tbsp Flour 

3 Tbsp Sugar
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp All Spice
4 Tbsp Dairy-free milk 
1/4 tsp Vanilla extract

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients 

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup Cashews 

1/4 cup Icing sugar
2 Tbsp Coconut oil (or vegan butter)
1 Tsp Lemon juice 
2 Tbsp Maple Syrup

Instructions 
Mix all mug cake ingredients in a microwave safe mug or bowl making sure to mix throughly 
put the mug into the microwave for approximately 2 minutes. 

blend all Cream Cheese frosting ingredients until smooth 
Spread on top of mug cake. 
You can eat it directly from the mug!

Candied Carrots 

5 minutes prep time 

30 minutes cook time 

Ingredients

1/2 cup water 

1/2 cup sugar

1 carrot

1 tsp cinnamon 

Instructions
peel strips of carrots with a vegetable peeler - You want them long enough to twist
Boil water and sugar in a sauce pan. 
Add carrots and cinnamon and let mixture simmer for 15 minutes. 
 preheat oven to 300 degrees
put carrots into strips on an oven rack with a piece of wax paper underneath. 
bake for 15 minutes
take out of oven and twirl the strips around something round (I used a knife sharpener)
they will cool into hard candy pretty quick so you want to twist them before they cool. 

*instead of throwing out the rest of the syrup from the water and sugar mixture I poured it over my cake for an added sugar-y kick of flavour.