Having allergies or intolerances can make it difficult to still enjoy your favourite cakes. Coffee cake is one of my all time favourites and we've developed a new and delicious recipe that is gluten free and vegan! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Preheat the oven to 160°C and prepare two 20cm sandwich tins (greased and lined).
Step 2:
Prepare the flax seed 'eggs' by adding 10 tbsp of warm water to 5 tbsp of ground flax seeds.
Step 3:
Cream the vegan margarine and dark muscovado sugar together. Gently fold in the gluten free self-raising flour, baking powder and camp coffee.
Step 4:
Chop the walnuts into chunky pieces and fold into the cake mixture.
Step 5:
Split the mixture evenly between the two sandwich tins and place into the pre-heated oven.
Bake the cakes until a skewer comes out clean, about 20-25 minutes.
Step 6:
While the cakes are cooling, make the coffee buttercream.
Beat the vegan margarine, stir in the Camp coffee syrup and water. Gradually mix in the icing sugar until you reach a fluffy buttercream consistency.
Step 7:
Once the cakes are cooled, sandwich the cake together with half of the coffee buttercream.
Then top the cake with the remaining coffee buttercream and decorate with walnuts.
Ingredients
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For the Coffee Cake
285gBillington's Unrefined Dark Muscovado Sugar
285gDoves farm gluten free self-raising flour
5 tbspFlax seeds (ground)
285gVegan margarine or butter
2 tbspCamp coffee syrup
100gWalnuts (halves)
10 tbspWarm water
1 tspDoves farm gluten free baking powder
For the Coffee Buttercream
90gVegan margarine or butter
2 tbspCamp coffee syrup
450gSilver Spoon Icing Sugar
1 tbspWater
100gWalnuts (halves)
Utensils
2 x 20 cm sandwich tins
Recipe Reviews
I was hoping that this would work but it did not! It was not cooked in 25 minutes so I gave it another 10 mins. It was cooked but fell apart when I put it onto the cooling rack! its not a cheap recipe so please can you get it right! the one star is for flavour
It tastes nice, but unfortunately the mixture made for weak cakes that disintegrated. I had to stick the vases back together with icing, unfortunate, needs more binding substance!
