Mole cake - Must try cake in vegan
Cuisine: Sweets
Author: Annelina Waller
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 1 hour
Ingredients
  • Dough:
  • 180 g spelt flour (type 630)
  • 70 g ground almonds
  • 70 g date sugar (or 60 g pureed dates)
  • 25 g cocoa
  • 1.5 tsp cream of tartar baking powder
  • 1.5 tsp baking soda
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 280 ml sparkling water
  • 50 ml vegetable oil
  • 1.5 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Cream:
  • 400 g vegan quark
  • 150 ml vegan whipping cream (+ cream stiffener/ guar gum if necessary)
  • 1 tsp guar gum or ground psyllium husks or 1 tbsp chia seeds*
  • 4 dark chocolate ribs
  • 4-5 bananas
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 160 °C fan oven and grease a 24 cm springform pan.
  2. Mix the dry ingredients (spelt flour, ground almonds, date sugar, cocoa, cream of tartar baking powder, baking soda and salt).
  3. Add the sparkling water, vegetable oil and apple cider vinegar and mix briefly.
  4. Pour the batter into the springform pan and bake for approx. 30 minutes (test with a skewer). Leave the cake to cool completely.
  5. Prepare the cream:
  6. Whip the vegan whipping cream (with cream stiffener or guar gum if required).
  7. Mash two bananas and mix with vegan quark and chia seeds (or guar gum/psyllium husks).
  8. Fold in the whipped cream and grated dark chocolate.
  9. Hollow out the cake and fill:
  10. Scoop out the cake with a spoon, leaving the edge (1 cm) and base (2 cm).
  11. Cut a banana in half lengthways and place in the cake cavity with other banana pieces.
  12. Spread the cream over the bananas in a dome shape and sprinkle with cake crumbs.
  13. Chill the cake so that the cream sets and the flavors combine.
  14. Note: In hot weather, use guar gum for the cream and chia seeds for the quark.
Calories: 270 Fat: 14,2 Protein: 7,9
Recipe by Annelina Waller at https://annelinawaller.com/mole-cake-must-try-cake-in-vegan/