Easy Vegan Cake Mix
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We decided to share this easy vegan cake mix as its great for using up over-ripe fruit you may find in your fruit bowl, which is how we came across it! Avoid food waste and get a delicious cake to eat! Recipe found via My Vegan Minimalist.
You’ll need 2 mixing bowls, cake tin.
Makes 1 cake
Ingredients (when in italics available from the van)
2 tablespoons ground linseed (approx 27p)
100ml boiling hot water
300g plain flour
90g demerara or coconut sugar (27p)
½ tsp salt (approx 5p)
2 tsp cinnamon ground (approx 25p)
3 tsp baking powder (approx 10p)
140ml olive oil (£1.33) or could use rapeseed
120ml unsweetened oat milk (make your own) or other alternative milk
3 tbsp maple syrup or other sweetener of choice
1 tbsp lemon juice (if no lemon juice can use apple cider vinegar)
1 pear skin removed - or whichever over-ripe fruit you have available, can use more for more moist cake or extras for decoration on top of cake.
Total cost from Incredible Bulk approx £2.15
Method:
Pre-heat your oven to 170°C.
Add ground linseed and boiling hot water to a small bowl. Stir and set aside. This will create a flax egg.
Combine flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and baking powder in a large bowl.
In a second bowl whisk together oil, milk, maple syrup and lemon juice.
Add your flax egg to your oil mixture and mix well.
Slowly pour the oil mixture into the centre of your flour mixture.
Mix until no more flour specs remain, but do not overmix.
Remove the pear (fruit) skin. Then cut your pear (fruit) into small cubes and add to your mixture and stir gently.
Line the bottom of a round cake tin with a layer of baking paper. Brush the sides with a layer of oil.
Pour your mixture into the tin.
If decorating with extra fruit, brush fruit slices with maple syrup. Can also top with flaked almonds if you have.
Bake at 170°C (fan oven setting) for 50-55 minutes.
Once baked (skewer coming out clean from cake), remove from oven and let cool completely. Can top with layer of maple syrup or chocolate as we did!
Zero Waste Tips
All ingredients are easy to find without single use plastic packaging.
Great to use up any over-ripe fruit- can get creative with other spices added, look to use up what you have in your cupboards!
Can be frozen for up to 2 months - slice and place in airtight container.
Use compostable non-bleached baking parchment and look to reuse after initial use, compost when no longer good to use.