A beautiful Biscoff Carrot Cake recipe – a protein carrot cake, protein cookie butter frosting, and crushed Biscoff cookies too. A healthy and high protein cookie butter carrot cake that’s low fat and sugar free too!

Those Carrot Cake Protein Cupcakes I made a month ago – totally got me back on the carrot cake thing. What a soft and beautiful cake, and then topped with a beautiful Biscoff frosting. Very underrated combination here of the cookie butter and carrot cake.

But all in all a really healthy Biscoff cookie carrot cake too.

Ingredients for Protein Biscoff Carrot Cake

This healthy biscoff carrot cake is made with healthy ingredients, sweetened with protein powder, and topped with a protein biscoff frosting. Here’s what you need for this healthy cake:

Vanilla Protein Powder needed for a high protein cake and also replaces the ‘sugar’.
I used Vanilla Milkshake protein powder from HTLT Supps since it’s a whey-caesin and works best for baking.
Unflavored Protein Powder to replace some of the flour (and carbs) in the recipe for a slightly low carb high protein biscoff carrot cake. I used a whey-caesin blend from Quest Nutrition
Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
Unsweetened Applesauce; as a replacement for most oil in other recipes
Non-fat Greek Yogurt contributes to the oil-free part of these high protein low calorie protein cake it adds the moisture, and also extra protein
Almond Milk or regular milk
Sugar-free Maple Syrup for low calorie recipe with no sugar! I use the monk fruit maple syrup from Lakanto (code HAYLSKITCHEN gets you a discount)
An Egg
A bit of Melted Coconut Oil
Spices – feel free to make your own using a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger
Baking Soda

And of course Shredded Carrots
And Biscoff Cookies!

For the Protein Biscoff Frosting:

Non-fat Plain Greek Yogurt
More Vanilla Protein Powder: HTLT Supps Vanilla flavor again
Cookie Butter: I used Butter my Cookie Almond Butter from American Dream Nut Butter since it’s low sugar and high protein and lower in fat too, but you can use regular Biscoff or cookie butter spread too.
Almond Milk or your milk of choice

Tips for the perfect Cookie Butter Carrot Cake with Protein Powder

While this protein powder cookie butter carrot cake recipe is easy, there are a few things to keep in mind:

Use freshly grated carrots since they work best in baking and have right amount of moisture. Nor packaged pre-shredded ones.

Grease the baking pan so the cake can come off easily

Use room temperature applesauce, yogurt, milk and egg;
This is so the wet ingredients and dry ingredients can mix well and does not harden the oil.
Microwave a few seconds if the oil does harden

Use melted Coconut Oil so that it mixes well into the healthy biscoff carrot cake batter.

Don’t over-mix the batter!
If you over-mix it, the protein powder – will make it tough, dense and gummy.

Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have low sugar protein biscoff cake.

Let cake cool completely before adding the frosting, or the frosting will melt away.

How to Store Protein Speculoos Carrot Cake

These protein biscoff spread carrot cake recipe is a good meal prep breakfast, post-workout treat, snack or dessert and can be stored on the counter, in the fridge or freezer too.

Place protein powder cookie butter carrot cake in an airtight container and you can keep them on the countertop for 2-3 hours, fridge for 5 days or freezer for 2-3 months.

To defrost frozen speculoos carrot cake, leave them on the countertop or place them in the fridge overnight. I would not recommend using the microwave.

Alternatives for Healthy Biscoff Carrot Cake Recipe

I made this healthy biscoff carrot cake recipe low fat, low calorie and low sugar with the protein powder and nut butter above, but here’s some options to try. I haven’t given them all a go yet, so I can’t say how they all would work.

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Use All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour in the same amount by weight not cups.
Unflavored Protein Powder: More flour, and reduce milk to about 6 tablespoons
Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
Almond Milk: Any other milk
Applesauce: Mashed Banana or Pumpkin Puree
Melted Coconut Oil: Melted Butter
Sugar-free Maple Syrup: Regular maple syrup, or honey
Cookie Butter Almond Butter: Regular Biscoff Spread or Cookie Butter

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