Gender reveal cake, gluten-free and vegan
Gluten-free dairy-free gender reveal cake filled with fruits and veggies. Hope your friends and family will enjoy the cake and the surprise!
Servings: 8 slices
Calories: 526kcal
Ingredients
Cake base
- 2 cups Gluten-free oat flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp Fine Himalayan pink salt
- 1/3 cup Melted coconut oil
- 1/4 cup Brown sugar
- 1/4 cup Maple syrup
- 1 1/2 Flax eggs (1 1/2 tbsp Ground flaxseed mixed with 4 1/2 tbsp water)
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 cup Grated carrot
Icing and decoration
- 1/2 cup Vegan butter (1 butter stick, placed in room temperature for 15mins to soften)
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups Icing sugar
- 1/4 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Ground nutmeg
- 2-3 tbsp Coconut milk
- 1/2 pint Berries Blueberries for boy and raspberries for girl, plus a bit of the other kind for decoration on top
- 1-2 tbsp Walnut pieces
Instructions
Cake base
- The night before or at least 4 hours before cake decorating time, start preparing the cake base according to instructions on https://beamingbaker.com/moist-vegan-gluten-free-zucchini-bread-recipe-gf-easy-healthy/
- Line or grease a 6-inch round cake pan. Preheat oven to 325°F
- Pour batter into cake pan and bake for 70 mins. Insert a toothpick and make sure it comes out clean
- Let cake cool in pan for 25 mins, then flip cake out of pan and continue to let cool on the cooling rack until decorating time
Icing
- Prepare the icing by creaming the softened vegan butter with hand mixer in a large mixing bowl. The butter should look lighter in color and fluffy
- Add vanilla, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg, use the hand mixer to mix until combined
- Roughly fold in with a spatula, then use the hand mixer to mix in icing sugar 1/2 cup at a time until desired consistency is reached. If the icing gets too stiff, add coconut milk 1 tbsp at a time to thin
Cake decorating
- Place cooled cake on a cake turntable. Gently score around a line at half the height of the cake with a bread knife
- Keep turning the cake and gradually cut into the cake along the scored line. This should yield a bottom cake layer and a top cake layer
- Carefully lift the top layer using the bread knife and aside on a separate plate
- Using a spatula, spread a 1/4 inch payer of icing over the bottom cake layer
- Place berries (blueberries in my case) as tightly packed and as evenly distributed over the icing as you can. Gently press the berries into the icing to secure position
- Spread a thin layer of icing over just enough to cover the berries, then place the top cake layer on top
- With a spatula, take about 2 tbsp of icing at a time to put on the side of the cake and even it out by scraping the icing at an angle.
- Continue to turn the cake and spread icing on the side until all the cake and fillings are concealed evenly
- Spread icing on top of the cake and even it out with a spatula
- Add berries and walnut pieces to decorate as desired
- Bring the cake to the party and let your loved ones enjoy the surprise!