Healthy Vegan Ginger Cake #Christmas #cake
Saturday, September 15, 2018
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Healthy Vegan Ginger Cake
This healthy Vegan Ginger Cake is gluten unrestricted and filled with fragrant spices. Easy and moist, with a cashew yellowness freeze. Mineral-rich blackstrap molasses, object dates and a short fertilizer dramatist lager sweetening neaten up the uncolored sweeteners. I served this with fresh blackberries, pomegranate and strike leaves - the perfect hands to flavorer (and a few glistering sweet-pea petals from the garden!).
The goody sumptuosity of having second for kitchen thoughtfulness - curst in the alchemy of transfer flavours togethers, filling the concern with luxurious and hot scents, fluttering finished the garden searching for fuchsia black treasures to arrange with… this is the bliss I've been enwrapped in collection quantification.
Today's recipe is an adaptation of my hot Drink Cover with Ganache, so shares all the self virtues: made with total matter ingredients, altogether plant-based, gluten unconfined, polished sugar unconfined, unconfined from conventional vegan hot ingredients specified as egg replacers and highly finished stemlike 'butters', acerate, perfect, brushed an
Ingredients
VEGAN GINGER CAKE:
- 1 cup buckwheat flour
- 1 cup almond meal
- 2 tablespoons psyllium husks
- 1½ cups coconut milk full fat
- 1½ teaspoons gluten free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 1/3 cup coconut oil melted
- 1/3 cup blackstrap molasses
- ½ cup 100g Medjool dates, softened in boiling water for five minutes
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons rice malt syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons ginger powder
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder
- ½ teaspoon clove powder
LEMON ICING:
- ½ cup cashews soaked in water for a couple of hours
- ¼ cup coconut oil melted
- ¼ cup nut milk
- 2 tablespoons 100% pure maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Pinch of coarse sea salt
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Zest of 1-2 lemons
- 4 drops doTERRA lemon essential oil optional but yum
- 2 teaspoons organic soy lecithin
Instructions
VEGAN GINGER CAKE:
- Pre-heat oven at 180˙C (360˙F) and lightly coat a 7½ inch spring-form cake tin with oil and a dusting of cacao powder.
- Blend the buckwheat flour, almond meal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and all spices in a food processor to combine.
- In a blender, whiz the psyllium husks with the coconut milk for 10 seconds, then pour into the food processor.
- Add the rest of the liquid ingredients (molasses, rice malt syrup, vanilla, coconut oil) and the drained and pitted dates. Blend till the mixture is a smooth batter.
- Pour contents into cake tin and bake (force fan) for 40 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then take cake out and let cool completely on a wire rack.
- Drain the cashews and blend with the coconut oil, nut milk, vanilla, maple syrup, salt, lemon juice and lemon essential oil if using.
- Add the soy lecithin and blend once more – the mixture will thicken.
- Transfer icing to a bowl and fold through the lemon zest.
- Set in the freezer for an hour then spread liberally over cake just before serving.
- Decorate with fresh petals, mint, pomegranate, blackberries.
- Store cake in an airtight container.
- You can keep left over icing in the fridge.