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Vegan Gluten Free Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cake (Low Fodmap)

June 7, 2019 by hannahhossack Leave a Comment

This moist, delicious sweet potato chocolate chip cake is easy to make and is totally vegan, gluten free and suitable for the low fodmap diet.

I’m going to straight up admit that gluten free baking is not really my area of expertise. I don’t really know any coeliacs/gluten intolerant people so it isn’t something I’ve ever needed to do on the regular.

Recently however, Damian has been giving the low Fodmap diet a try (it is SUCH a ballache of a diet but needs must…). The elimination phase requires you to cut out basically everything that contains gluten (and just about everything else as well it feels like!), so I’ve come up with a few gluten free and low fodmap friendly bakes so he can still have a little bit of joy in his diet.

This sweet potato chocolate chip cake is both vegan and gluten free, as well as being suitable for the low fodmap diet. It uses a base of ground oats and almonds instead of flour which makes it soft and moist. It is bound with cooked mashed sweet potato, maple syrup, almond milk and full fat tinned coconut milk.

There is no extra fat added to this cake other than the fat from the coconut milk so don’t swap this out for another kind of milk or it might not work as well.

This is not an overly sweet cake – it is sweetened just with maple syrup; so a healthy dose of chocolate chips provide a bit of extra sweetness. (And the more chocolate chips the better in my opinion!).

This is a great cake for snacking on and because it is a bit more nutritious than regular cake you don’t need to feel guilty about having two slices!

How To Make Vegan And Gluten Free Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cake:

(For ingredients and full instructions see the recipe card below)

*For the best results make sure that you follow the recipe closely. As always, I highly recommend using the gram measurements (with a digital scale), rather than the cup conversions. Cup measurements are simply not accurate enough for baking and I cannot guarantee the best results if you use them.*

Start by making your sweet potato mash – Take one medium-large sweet potato and prick it a couple of times with a sharp knife. Microwave for around 10 minutes, turning it over halfway through, until it is soft. You can also bake it if you prefer; but it takes longer.

Allow to cool a little then peel off the skin, place the flesh in a bowl and mash. Measure out 120g/1/2 cup of the mash for the cake and reserve any left over for another use. (I give it to my dog, he loves it.).

(If you are measuring the potato by weight, not cups (which I always recommend!) then there is no need to mash it as you will be blending it in a minute anyway.).

(You only need one sweet potato – two are pictured as I nicked this photo from my vegan sweet potato bread with pecan streusel post).

Tip your oat flour/ground oats (see below for instructions on how to make it) into a large bowl along with ground almonds, baking powder and salt and mix it well with a balloon whisk so no lumps remain.

Place your cooked sweet potato in a blender along with tinned full fat coconut milk (no substitutions!), almond milk (or another thin plant milk, or just water is fine), maple syrup (or you can use agave) and vanilla extract. Blend until smooth.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well, the batter should be very thick. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Scrape the batter into a 23cm/9inch square greased and lined cake tin and spread it level. Bake until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean or with a couple of moist crumbs but no wet batter.

Leave the cake to cool in the tin before turning it out and slicing into squares. It MUST be completely cold before you cut it otherwise the texture will be too wet.

How Long Will It Keep?:

I find that this cake doesn’t keep particularly well – about 3-4 days max in an airtight container. Left for too long, particularly if the weather is warm, you may find that it goes mouldy.

How To Make Oat Flour:

You can purchase ready ground oat flour; but it is really simple to make your own. You just need to blitz rolled oats in a blender until they are very finely ground; it takes all of about 30 seconds.

I just weigh out the 215g of oats that I need for the recipe, grind them up in the blender, tip them out into a bowl then blitz up the wet ingredients as per the recipe (no need to clean the blender first).

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Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cake (Vegan, Gluten Free, Low Fodmap)

This moist, delicious sweet potato chocolate chip cake is easy to make and is totally vegan, gluten free and suitable for the low fodmap diet.

Course Dessert

Cuisine baking, vegan

Keyword cake

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Servings 16 squares

Author Domestic Gothess

Ingredients

215 g (2 cups + 2 Tbsp) finely ground oats/oat flour
230 g (2 cups) ground almonds
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
120 g (1/2 cup) cooked, mashed sweet potato
200 ml (1/2 + 1/3 cup) full fat coconut milk (tinned, NOT the drinking variety)
100 ml (1/3 cup + 1 Tbsp + 1tsp) unsweetened almond milk (or another thin non-dairy milk)
200 g (1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp) maple syrup
3 tsp vanilla extract
150 g (5.3 oz) dairy free chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease a 23cm/9 inch square cake tin and line with baking parchment.
Place the ground oats and almonds, baking powder and salt in a large bowl and whisk until well combined.
Place the cooked sweet potato in a blender along with the coconut milk, almond milk, maple syrup and vanilla extract and blend until smooth.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well until smooth; the batter should be very thick. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Scrape the batter into the prepared tin and spread it level.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs but no wet batter.
Leave the cake to cool in the tin. It must be completely cold before serving otherwise the texture will be too wet.
Store in an airtight container for up to three days.

Vegan Carrot Cake Loaf

April 28, 2019 by hannahhossack 1 Comment

Vegan carrot cake loaf – this is the best vegan carrot cake! Easy to make, moist, sweet and spicy with a zingy lemon glaze; this loaf cake is perfect for snacking on.

It seemed criminal that I hadn’t yet posted a recipe for vegan carrot cake as it is both one of mine and Damian’s favourite cakes. I tested and developed this recipe some time ago but hadn’t gotten round to photographing it; Easter seemed like the perfect time to bake another loaf and finally take some photos!

This is a really simple, but really moist and flavourful vegan carrot cake loaf. When I took it round to the in-laws for Easter Sunday it disappeared within minutes and everyone was lamenting that I hadn’t made a larger cake – you may want to double the recipe and bake two loaves!

The cake is moist, lightly spiced and has a wonderful soft but not too dense texture. I did initially want to top it with a vegan cream cheese frosting but all three of the supermarkets closest to me were out of vegan cream cheese that wasn’t garlic and herb flavour, so a simple lemon glaze had to do!

The lemon glaze is delicious however, and it works wonderfully with the lightly spiced flavour of the cake. It is also lovely plain too so feel free to top it as you wish (or not at all).

How To Make Vegan Carrot Cake Loaf:

(For ingredients and full instructions see the recipe card below)

Start by whisking together the wet ingredients – caster sugar, light brown soft sugar, sunflower oil, non-dairy milk, cider vinegar, vanilla extract and lemon (or orange) zest.

In a separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients – plain flour, wholemeal flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt.

Tip the dry ingredients into the wet and whisk gently until no lumps of flour remain, be careful not to over-beat the batter however as that can make the cake tough.

Add the grated carrots, and if you are using any mix-ins such as nuts or raisins add them now too. Fold through until well combined.

Tip the batter into an approx 11.5 x 21.5 cm / 4.5 x 8.5 in loaf tin that you have greased and lined with a strip of baking parchment and spread it level. Bake for about an hour until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Let the cake cool in the tin for about 20 minutes then carefully lift it out using the strip of baking parchment and place it on a wire rack to cool completely before you add the glaze. The cake is delicate when warm so be careful moving it.