Holiday season is here.Be it a small gathering of friends or just your family. It is a time to thank everyone for supporting each other as we end the year. This vegan fruit cake recipe is fully loaded with healthy nuts. I love nuts be it almonds or cashews and pistachios. The more the merrier. What I love about this cake, is its rich in texture and has good amount of nuts. Some people think only a cake with egg gives you that flavor. Vegan cake is great in flavor too, especially this one. In fact, you will not even realize this vegan xmas cake is eggless and vegan unless you tell people. You can also make this as the fruit birthday cake. Here is a list of delicious party recipes for all guests vegan and yummy!
If you are a teetotaler like us ,and also wanna go vegan, this is just the cake for you. Yummy and delicious! Usually people add rum to cake to give it that bitterness. However, adding fruit peels and nuts to orange juice and leaving it overnight does the trick.Other similar eggless recipes for cakes and muffins include Eggless banana walnut cake, Eggless blueberry cake ,Vegan airfryer muffins ,Tutti fruitti cake , Eggless chocolate walnut cake, vegan banana oat muffins & Vegan chocolate muffin .
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Why do we love cake?
Christmas cake is flavorful and rich. Most of these Christmas cake recipes have eggs, rum or alcohol. However, recipe for eggless fruit cake is easy. Vegan Christmas fruit cake is our alcohol-free, dairy-free, egg-less version of the original traditional Christmas cake recipes. It is great with tea and some snacks. It is amazing to have a rich homemade cake instead of having to buy a vegan cake. You will love eating it time and again.
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Ingredients
- orange juice with rind or apricot juice
- mixed fruits, fruit peel, raisins, berries
- mixed nuts pecans/cranberries or mixed crushed dryfruits (almonds,pistachio,cashew)
- chia seeds meal or flaxseed meal
- coconut sugar or raw sugar
- vegetable oil
- plain flour (or self raising flour, do not use baking powder/soda if using self raising flour)
- baking powder
- baking soda
- almond milk or oat milk (or cow's milk for vegetarian option)
refer to recipe card for details.
How to make vegan Christmas cake?
- Take orange juice in a large bowl. Add the store bought mixed fruit mix with dried berries,raisins
- Allow it to soak for 2-3 hours/overnight. If you are in a hurry, warm up the juice a bit and add the mixed fruits.Leave it to cool for 30 minutes.
- Add the flax seed/chia seed meal to the juice and dried fruit mix. Allow the flax seed meal to thicken up in the next 5-10 minutes
- Add the coconut sugar/ raw sugar and mix well until it dissolved. Add almond milk to the cake mixture and stir.
- Add oil and mix well
- Now, start adding the white flour(after sifting flour with baking powder and baking soda).
- Keep mixing and adding the flour. Add more almond milk if required.
- Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 160 degree C. Transfer the cake to a lined cake tin(or divide across 2 tins)
- garnish the dry fruits on the cake
- Bake in a fan-forced oven at 160 degree C for 45-50 mins(if using single tin)/35-40 minutes if using 2 cake tins) or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Take it out of the oven,allow it cool completely over wire rack before cutting into slice with a sharp knife.This spice cake is very soft and crumbly(simply melts in the mouth) with all traditional festive flavours. Even hard core chocolate lovers cannot resist this cake.
how to make vegan Christmas cake in air fryer ?
In a pre heated air fryer, cook at 160C for 25 minutes (using the bake option) or until the toothpick comes out clean. I have used a 8 inch round tin for cooking in the air fryer.
Allow the entire cake to be completely cool (few hours) in the cake pan before you cut through this moist and best vegan cake that I have eaten in a long time.
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There are loads of eggless cakes if you want to try, this festive season. If you are still transitioning to be vegetarian and want to take baby steps before trying veganism. You may also try to bake with nut milk /oat milk instead of cow's milk in the below recipe for the vegan recipe.
Vegan alcohol free Christmas cake recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup orange juice with rind or apricot juice
- 1-¼ cup mixed fruits ¾ cup fruit peel,¼ cup raisins,¼ cup berries
- ½ cup mixed dry fruits Pecans/cranberries or mixed crushed dryfruits (almonds,pistachio,cashew) for garnish
- 2 tablespoon chia seed meal or flax seed meal
- ¾ cup coconut sugar or raw sugar.You can reduce the sugar by ¼ cup if you like. Replace with almond milk if the batter is dry
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 cup plain flour or self raising flour (do not use baking powder/soda if using self raising flour)
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder not required if using self raising flour
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda not required if using self raising flour
- ¾ cup almond milk or oat milk (or cow's milk for vegetarian option)
Instructions
- Take orange juice in a bowl,add the store bought mixed fruit mix with dried berries,raisins
- Allow it to soak for 4 hours/overnight. If you are in a hurry, warm up the juice a bit and add the mixed fruits.Leave it to cool for 30 minutes.
- Sift the baking soda and baking powder with plain flour,keep it aside
- Add the chia seed/flax seed meal to the juice and fruit mix,Allow the chia seed meal to thicken up in the next 5-10 minutes
- Add the coconut sugar or raw sugar and mix well until it dissolved
- Add oil and mix well
- Add almond milk to the mix and stir. Now, start adding the flour(sifted with baking soda and flour)
- Keep mixing and adding the flour. Add more almond milk if required.
- Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 160 degree C. Transfer the cake tin(or divide across 2 tins) lined with baking sheet.
- Transfer the batter to a cake tin lined with baking sheet.
- Garnish with whole nuts or chopped dry fruits on the cake batter.
- Bake in a fan-forced oven at 160 degree C for 45-50 mins(if using single tin)/35-40 minutes if using 2 cake tins) or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow it to rest in the oven for further 5-10 minutes.
- Take it out of the oven,allow it cool completely before cutting into slices.This cake is very soft and crumbly(simply melts in the mouth)
For air fryer
- Pre heat the airfryer @160C for 5 minutes (using the bake option)
- Cook at 160C for 25-30 minutes (using the bake option) or until the toothpick comes out clean. I have used a 8 inch cake tin,you can use a bread loaf tin as well
- The only thing I have found in baking in airfryer is that the top gets over cooked, so bake cake that is little low in height in the pan.
Notes
Variations & substitutions
You can decorate the top of the cake with crushed dry fruits by chopping them in a food processor.
Other variations of vegan christmas cakes, is soaking nuts in alcohol instead of orange juice.
FAQs
Yes. You can. If you do not have almond milk handy, you may replace it with cow's milk. Use the same quantity to make a vegetarian Xmas cake. If you do not like almonds, use cashews.
You can replace chia seed meal with flax seed meal. You may use any egg replacer otherwise while making vegan christmas desserts. If you do not have any such replacements ,just add little more flour (2 tbsp) to make the batter little thick.
Storage
Store it in refrigerator for 4-5 days. Reheat before you consume.
Vsol says
What size cake tin?
bhavana bhatia says
For the amount of batter used in the recipe, we have used 1 big tin of 8inchs. Alternately, you can divide is across 2 tins of 6 inch. In case of using 2 tins, the time to cook will be less(by 10 minutes)