Vegan Walnut Cake

 

This recipe comes from one my favourite cake as a child: the walnut cake. I first had it during a family holiday at age 10 and I remember just thinking it was the best cake ever! Then my mom did it at home and she added the chocolate sauce with it! so good! I tried to make a much healthier version replacing the white flour, butter, oil, eggs and white sugar with healthy alternatives to make a wholegrain vegan walnut cake!

I also added a healthy chocolate sauce to go with this cake using coconut oil and cacao.

This cake was a great success as my husband went and had 2 slices for afternoon snack! ( he doesn't usually enjoy healthy cakes that much haha) I think the nuttiness of the cake and the chocolate sauce won him over! 
 Ingredients:

• 1 cup walnuts
• 1/2 cup wholemeal spelt flour ( you can substitute for gluten free or wholemeal wheat flour)
• 1/2 cup coconut sugar ( or 3 tbsp of maple syrup/rice malt syrup)
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• 1/2 mashed banana ( or 1 small one)
• 1 tbsp linseed
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla bean essence;
• 1/2 tsp of cinnamon;
• 1 tbsp of coconut oil;
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda;
• pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp water if required or more almond milk if it is a bit too dry
• 1/3 cup additional walnuts whole

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven at 225 degrees and line a round cake tin with some baking paper;
2. Put the walnuts in a food processor and mix until it becomes fine;
3. Mix in a bowl the dry ingredients: walnuts, baking soda, pinch of salt, cinnamon, spelt flour, vanilla and coconut sugar;
4. In a different bowl mash the banana with a fork or put it in the food processor;
5. Add in the almond milk, linseed and coconut oil;
6. Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients;
7. Add in a few whole walnuts;
8. Lay in the cake tin;
9. Cook for 60 min at 200 degrees;
10. Top with more whole walnuts and some healthy chocolate sauce ( recipe below);

Chocolate Sauce:

Mix together:

• 3 tbsp coconut oil;
• 2 tbsp cacao powder;
• 1 tbsp maple syrup;

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