Vegan Gingerbread Cake With Coconut Frosting

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups cashew nuts

  soaked for at least 4 hours, drained and rinsed
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup coconut milk
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp agar agar powder
• 1 ½ cups rice flour
• ½ cup chickpea flour
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 cup cornmeal
• 1 cup coconut sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 4 tbsp ground flaxseed

  soaked in ½ water for 10 minutes
• 2 ½ cups unsweetened almond milk

  or any other plantbased milk of choice
• ¼ cup smooth peanut butter

Instructions

• 1 Add the soaked cashews to a blender or food processor together with maple syrup,
  coconut milk and vanilla extract. Blend until the icing is very smooth, which
  should take around 5 minutes, depending on how powerful your blender is. Make
  sure that no cashew lumps remain.
• 2 Activate the agar agar powder on the stove by stirring it with water over a
  low-medium heat and then add this to the frosting, blending for around a minute
  more. Transfer the frosting to an airtight container and leave to set in the
  fridge for at least 2 hours.
• 3 Around 35 minutes before you are ready to take out the icing, preheat the oven
  to 350F (180 C) and line two 8-inch cake tins with parchment paper. You can do
  this by drawing a line around the circumference of the tin, cutting it out with
  scissors and placing the parchment paper circle inside the tin.
• 4 In one mixing bowl whisk together the rice flour, chickpea flour, ground ginger,
  coconut sugar, corn meal, baking powder, and baking soda.
• 5 In a separate bowl, whisk together the apple cider vinegar, a flax egg (made by
  combining ¼ cup ground flaxseeds with ½ cup water and setting aside for 10
  minutes), plant based milk, and peanut butter.
• 6 Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until well-combined.
• 7 Divide the batter evenly between the two cake tins and bake in the preheated
  oven for 25 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean from the centre.
• 8 Once they are ready, allow the sponges to cool for at least 15 minutes before
  assembling the cake. Spread a thick layer of icing on one of the sponges.
• 9 Place other sponge over it and add another layer of icing on top, spreading some
  around the edges if desired.

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