Haitian style Vegan Orange Cake. Delicious and moist cake made with orange juice and dark rum for a Caribbean flavour.
Vegan Orange Cake (Gâteau à l’orange)
Haitian style Vegan Orange Cake. Delicious and moist cake made with orange juice and dark rum for a Caribbean flavour.
Ingredients
- 325 g self-raising flour
- 5 g bicarbonate of soda
- 5 g baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 200 g caster sugar
- 150 g vegan butter
- 150 ml plant-based milk
- 120 ml orange juice
- 30 ml dark rum*
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Zest of 2 oranges
Orange Icing
- 150 g icing sugar
- 20 ml orange juice
- 10 ml dark rum*
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 180°C and prepare a bunt or cake tin, using butter to grease all sides of the tin and coating in a thin layer of flour.
- In a bowl add the plant-based milk and orange juice mix well and let sit for 5 minutes. This will cause the plant-based milk to split and become slightly thicker.
- Meanwhile in a separate large bowl cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Once the milk has sat for 5 minutes add the vanilla, dark rum and orange zest and mix well before adding to the butter mixture. Roughly fold in using a spatula before gradually adding the flour, bicarbonate soda, baking powder and salt. Combine well using a mixer or a spoon until smooth.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared tin, smooth out the top and bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
- Leave to cool completely before removing from the tin and decorating.
- Add icing sugar to a bowl then add in your rum then slowly add in the orange juice, mixing until at deserved consistency. You might not want to use all the liquid.
- Pour the icing onto the cooled cake and decorate with orange zest.
Notes
If you don’t want to use alcohol, substitute the dark rum for more orange juice.
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