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Vegan Spice Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

This vegan spice cake is decadent, rich, and tasty. With vegan cream cheese frosting and pretty decorations, it will make every celebration a tad bit better.
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Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Resting time 4 hours
Total Time 5 hours 40 minutes
Servings: 8 pieces
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: european
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 150 g all-purpose flour
  • 50 g wholemeal flour
  • pinch salt
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1½ tsp cinnamon
  • pinch ground cloves
  • pinch allspice
  • pinch nutmeg
  • pinch black pepper
  • ⅓ tsp cardamom
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • 200 g grated apple
  • 70 g coconut oil
  • 70 g yogurt
  • 70 g brown sugar
  • 100 ml oat milk
Frosting
  • 200 g vegan mascarpone
  • 200 g coconut yogurt
  • 1 pack vanilla sugar about 8 g
  • 20 g brown sugar
  • ⅓ tsp cardamom
Decoration
  • cinnamon sticks
  • anis stars
  • whole cloves
  • dried flowers

Method
 

  1. First, let's add all the dry ingredients to a large bowl. Flours, sugar, salt, baking powder, and spices. Whisk them well.
  2. Grate an apple and don't throw away the liquid, we need it.
  3. Add coconut oil, coconut yogurt, and sugar to a bowl and mix it well with a hand mixer. We want a smooth whipped cream. You can also use an electric chopper or a blender to easily mix all the ingredients.
  4. Now, add an apple, coconut oil + yogurt + sugar cream, and milk to the bowl with dry ingredients and gently mix it all together. Use a whisk or a spatula to gently incorporate all the ingredients. Don't overmix it, but make sure there are no dry lumps in the batter.
  5. Put the batter into a cake tin (approx. 22 cm) greased and lined with parchment paper. Using a spatula, straighten the surface and put it into the preheated oven.
  6. Bake at 180°C for about 55 minutes or until it's well-baked - use a toothpick method to check if it's done.
    Toothpick method: take a toothpick and stick it into the cake. Pull it out and check, if there's some batter sticking to the toothpick. If there's still some batter sticking to it, your cake is not done yet.
Cream cheese frosting
  1. In the meantime, prepare the frosting. Add all the ingredients to a bowl and mix them together with an electric hand mixer. You want a smooth and light cream that holds its shape (more or less). Then cover the bowl and place it into the fridge so it cools down.
Putting the cake together
  1. Once the cake is baked, take it out of the oven and let it cool down completely.
  2. When the cake is cooled down, cut it into two layers.
  3. Add about 3 tbsp of cream cheese frosting onto the first layer and spread it out evenly. Then, place another layer on top of that and add another 3 tbsp of frosting on top of that. Spread it out evenly again.
  4. Use the rest of the cream to cover the sides of the cake.
  5. Decorate as you wish, using the listed objects or add any of your choice.