Vegan alcohol free Christmas cake
Easy Vegan christmas cake is a take on the traditional cake which is made with with eggs.This is an alcohol free christmas cake and a christmas cake without eggs.
Servings: 8
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)
- 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
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
- 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 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
Notes
I have used the store bought mixed fruit pack, you may replace that with 'tutti fruity,raisins and few orange peel/lemon peel pieces'.
I have used 2 cake tins of 6inches or 1 cake tin of 8inch.
The one used in the picture above is cake tin of 8 inches, it was quite deep as well and took little more time (10 mins) to cook compared to being cooked in 2 separate cake tins of 6 inch each.