free-from-cake

Extremely tasty but easy to make Free-From cake from our creative genius Tyrone.

Ingredients- cake

112g Dairy free spread (must be soft)

225g Oat milk

7 ml Cider vinegar

225g Gluten- free self-raising flour (sieved)

150g Coconut sugar

30g Cocoa powder (sieved)

2.25g Bicarb of soda

Ingredients- Ganache

140g 70% Dark chocolate

35g Coconut Sugar

35g Water

Chocolate Buttons/ Strawberries (optional)

 

Cake

  1. Heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
  2. Oil your cake tin
  3. Put all the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl
  4. In a separate bowl, combine the oat milk with the vinegar
  5. Add the milk and vinegar to the dry ingredients. Whisk together quite vigorously until you have a smooth batter
  6. Transfer batter to the cake tin
  7. Cook in the oven for 40- 45 minutes
  8. To check it’s cooked, put a skewer in the cake. If it comes out clean, you’re good to go!

To make the ganache:

  1. In a saucepan boil the sugar and water together (let it boil for about 30 seconds)
  2. Break the chocolate into bowl
  3. Pour the syrup onto the broken up chocolate and stir
  4. Cool the mixture
  5. Whisk the cooled mixture until it is the consistency of butter cream

To decorate:

Slice cake in half and spread some of the ganache on each half, then put back together

Pipe some ganache on the top of the cake and add decorative touches. We used Enjoy! Salted Caramel buttons and sliced strawberries