Mole cake – Must try cake in vegan

Mole cake – Vegan must-try cake

Sweet, vegan and healthy. Its baking time 🙂 As you know, I love to enjoy my sweets. Preferably when I have made them myself. It´s so much fun standing in the kitchen and preparing my cakes. I love taking classic recipes and transforming them into healthier and vegan versions. That is why, I have now done the same with the classic mole cake. Who didn’t love it as a child? Here you can get the must-try cake in vegan.

Mole cake – a childhood memory

A mole cake brings back childhood memories for me. I had it at so many family celebrations, children’s birthdays and school parties. I loved it so much, especially because of the delicious banana in the mole cake. However, the cake was often super heavy and creamy. You feel down afterwards and just want to lie down.

That’s why we need a healthy version of the classic. This really is a must-try! I use spelt flour and date sugar here instead of the traditional versions.

To the recipe – Mole cake

Mole cake - Must try cake in vegan

 

Author: Annelina Waller

Nutrition Information

• Serves: 10

• Calories: 270

• Fat: 14,2
• Carbohydrates: 25
• Protein: 7,9

Recipe type: Cake, Baking

Cuisine: Sweets

Prep time:  30 mins

Cook time:  30 mins

Total time:  1 hour

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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.

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Watch the video for the recipe here. Which cake brings back childhood memories for you? What is your must-try vegan and healthy cake? You can find inspiration on my blog.

Love

Annelina