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Gluten Free Vegan Coffee Cake

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3 Reviews

Total Time
40m
Prep Time
15m
Bake Time
25m
Serves 12
Serves 12
easy
Easy

About the bake

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!

13 ingredients7 steps
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Method

  1. Step 1

    Preheat the oven to 160°C and prepare two 20cm sandwich tins (greased and lined).

  2. Step 2

    Prepare the flax seed 'eggs' by adding 10 tbsp of warm water to 5 tbsp of ground flax seeds.

     

    Ingredients for this step

    • Flax seeds (ground) (5 tbsp)
    • Warm water (10 tbsp)
  3. 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.

    Ingredients for this step

    • Vegan margarine or butter (285g)
    • Billington's Unrefined Dark Muscovado Sugar (285g)
    • Doves farm gluten free self-raising flour (285g)
    • Doves farm gluten free baking powder (1 tsp)
    • Camp coffee syrup (2 tbsp)
  4. Step 4

    Chop the walnuts into chunky pieces and fold into the cake mixture. 

    Ingredients for this step

    • Walnuts (halves) (100g)
  5. 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.

  6. 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.

    Ingredients for this step

    • Camp coffee syrup (2 tbsp)
    • Vegan margarine or butter (285g)
    • Silver Spoon Icing Sugar (450g)
    • Water (1 tbsp)
  7. 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 for this step

    • Walnuts (halves) (100g)

Ingredients

  • 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

3 Baker Ratings

Unfortunately I did not read the reviews first. I will in future. It took an extra 15 minutes to cook and then was very grainy as though the sugar had not fully melted. Very difficult to ice as it kept falling apart. Not quite the 21st birthday cake I was hoping to make for my newly vegan (for health reasons) daughter. We are both gluten free so I'm used to adjusting receipes, but didn't think I would have to for one advertised as vegan and GF.

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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

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