Vegan squash cake
Ingredients
for 12 pieces
| 100 g | margarine |
| 120 g | sugar |
| 1 parcel | vanilla sugar |
| 1 pinch | salt |
| 1 dl | oat drink |
| 2 tbsp | white wine vinegar |
| 200 g | white flour |
| 80 g | ground hazelnuts |
| 2 tsp | baking powder |
| 1 tsp | sodium bicarbonate |
| 200 g | squash (e.g. red kuri, roughly grated, yields approx. 150 g) |
| 40 g | dried cranberries, coarsely chopped |
| 100 g | vegan cream cheese substitute |
| 40 g | icing sugar |
| 2 tbsp | dried cranberries |
| 2 tbsp | hazelnuts, coarsely chopped |
How it's done
Cake mixture
Place the margarine in a bowl along with all the other ingredients up to and including the salt, beat with a whisk. Add the oat drink and vinegar, mix. Mix the flour with all the other ingredients up to and including the bicarbonate of soda, add to the bowl along with the squash and cranberries, mix quickly to form a smooth batter. Transfer the cake mixture to the prepared tin.
To bake
Approx. 45 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool completely on a rack.
Frosting
Mix the cream cheese substitute and icing sugar in a bowl. Spread the frosting over the cake, sprinkle with the cranberries and hazelnuts.
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