Vegan Blood Orange Cardamom Poppy Seed Cake
Ingredients
Blood Orange Loaf Cake
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- ¾ cup oat milk room temperature
- ¼ cup coconut cream the thick part from the top of a can
- 3 tbsp fresh blood orange juice
- 1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup coconut oil, melted
- 150 g granulated sugar (¾ cup)
- 205 g all purpose flour
- 32 g almond flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 ½ tbsp poppy seeds
- 2 tbsp organic blood orange zest
- 2 tsp cardamom
Blood Orange Glaze
- 2-3 tbsp freshly pressed blood orange
- 2 tbsp melted coconut oil
- ½ cup powdered icing sugar
Toppings
- handful roasted unsalted pistachios, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C and prepare a loaf pan.
- Zest the blood orange.
- Whisk chia seeds with oat milk, coconut cream, vanilla, and freshly squeezed blood orange juice. Set aside to thicken.
- Rub the zest together with sugar between your fingers.
- Whisk/sift all the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
- Mix the coconut oil and sugar/zest mixture in with the rest of the wet ingredients.
- Combine the wet and dry mixtures until just combined. Don't over mix.
- Fill the loaf pan and bake in the oven for 37-40 minutes until a cake tester comes out basically clean.
- If you want to make the glaze, wait until the loaf has cooled before pouring over the glaze.
- To make the glaze simply whisk all the ingredients together. I sift in the sugar so the glaze is clump free. Then pour the glaze over the loaf. You can add more blood orange juice if the icing is too thick, or more powdered sugar if it's too runny.
- Crush/finely chop the pistachios and sprinkle over the loaf.
- Enjoy! :)