The Best Sourdough Einkorn Carrot Cake Recipe – Perfectly Moist

This sourdough einkorn carrot cake recipe is perfectly moist, and oh so satisfying! Einkorn & sourdough make this the best, perfectly moist and nourishing, carrot cake recipe you’ll ever try!

I’m making this carrot cake for dessert after Easter dinner this year! (I’m making a ham roast for dinner, but that’s another topic!) It’s the perfect cake that’s not too sweet and has a healthy amount of nuts for protein, einkorn for vitamins, and sourdough to make all the goodness easily absorbed by our bodies!

Einkorn is an ancient grain that is the great grandparent of all wheat. It is the original wheat, and has a buttery wonder essence! Sourdough makes this moist carrot cake, and is the ancient way of preparing grains by fermentation, imparting a rich depth of flavor you just can’t get any other way!

My wheat grinder is over a hundred years old. It was my great-grandmother’s. She had given it to my mother when she was younger, and my mother gave it to me when I was newly married.

I really love the beautiful Mockmills that sit on the counter looking gorgeous, but this 100+ year-old wheat grinder is just so strong and works so well. It is a stone grinder, like the Mockmill, and doesn’t stop. I will be investing in a Mockmill in the future and pass this family gem on to my daughter when she is ready!

If you are wondering where to get Einkorn, I love to buy mine through Einkorn.com and shipping is free. This is a small family-owned and operated Einkorn farm here in Idaho, and they sell it in all different sizes, including the 6-gallon buckets that I love.

How To Make Sourdough Einkorn Carrot Cake

To make this delicious and nutritious carrot cake, you’ll need a sourdough starter. If you don’t have one, ask a friend for some! It’s easy to share and regrows fast, so sharing is NO burden. If you don’t know anyone with a starter, I will show you have to make your own sourdough starter here, but I must warn you that it will take at least a week, so start early!

Ingredients

• 21/2 cups fresh ground einkorn flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/4 cup heavy cream
• One and 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup sourdough starter
• 2 cups grated carrots
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• Mix well and let sour in the fridge or on the counter for 6-8 hours
• Add 1 tsp baking soda

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, and move your oven rack to the middle position.
• Butter 2 round cake pans
• add parchment paper if desired
• Pour batter into cake pans
• Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.

Place warm cakes in the freezer while you make the frosting! (Chilled cakes are firmer and much easier to frost!)

To prepare the frosting, let the cream cheese and butter sit on the counter for an hour or so to soften up, it makes them so much easier to blend!

Cream Cheese Frosting for Sourdough Einkorn Carrot Cake

• 2-8 oz packages of cream cheese (let sit on the counter for an hour or so to soften up!)
• 1/2 cup butter softened
• pinch or two of salt
• 2-3 tablespoons of cream (I use coconut cream)
• 5 cups of powdered sugar

In a large mixing bowl combine all the frosting ingredients. Use the beaters (turned off) to break up the cream cheese and butter into the sugar.

Then start beating the mixture on low till the powdered sugar is moist enough to mix on high without making a mess. Blend on high till all ingredients are incorporated and smooth! (If you want a thicker frosting, just add more powdered sugar)

Why Einkorn?

Einkorn wheat grinds to a smooth and fine flour that has a wonderful butter essence. It’s also packed FULL of vitamins! In fact, it has way more vitamin content than fresh ground whole wheat! Plus, Einkorn is naturally “hulled” wheat, unlike modern wheat.  The hull protects Einkorn wheat from stray chemicals, contamination, and insects ORGANICALLY!

Einkorn is friendly to the body’s digestive system. It boosts immunity and helps prevent cancer and heart disease. It promotes healthy eyes, and reproductive organs, and helps prevent many cancers. plus, it helps prevent macular degeneration and cataracts!

• Researchers have found that wheat gluten studies found that einkorn can be non-toxic to people who suffer from gluten intolerance! (That may be because einkorn has 14 chromosomes, unlike modern wheat which has 42 chromosomes!)
• Einkorn wheat has 3 – 4 times MORE beta-carotene than modern wheat does!
• It has 2 times MORE vitamin A than modern wheat do!
• Einkorn wheat has 3 – 4 times MORE lutein than modern wheat does!
• It has 4-5 times MORE riboflavin than any modern wheat does. (Riboflavin is used by the body to create energy, plus it’s an antioxidant!)