Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Vegan lemon poppy seed cake - this delicious cake has a moist, light, fluffy texture and a fresh, zesty, lemony flavour. It is easy to make and is just as good for celebrations as it is for any day of the week.
Servings 10 people
Ingredients
Cake:
- 250 g (2 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 10 g (1 packed Tablespoon) cornflour (cornstarch)
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- finely grated zest of 2 large lemons
- 3 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 80 g (⅓ cup) vegan block butter (I use Naturli Vegan Block) melted
- 60 ml (¼ cup) olive oil (or another neutral oil)
- 125 g (½ cup) unsweetened soy yogurt
- 125 ml (½ cup) unsweetened non-dairy milk (I use soy)
- 200 g (1 cup) caster or granulated sugar
- 2 Tablespoons poppy seeds
Icing:
- 170 g (1 ½ cups) icing (powdered) sugar
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease a 20 cm / 8 in round cake tin that is 5 cm / 2 in deep and line it with baking parchment.
- Sift together the plain flour, cornflour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl.
- Whisk together the lemon zest and juice, melted butter, oil, yogurt and milk in a jug.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry along with the sugar and stir with a balloon whisk until no dry lumps remain.
- Fold in the poppy seeds.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and spread it level. Bake for 45-50 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 20 minutes then carefully turn it out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
- To make the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in the lemon juice to form a thick but pourable glaze. Add more lemon juice as needed if it is too thick, and more icing sugar if it is too runny.
- Pour the icing over the top of the cake and serve.
Notes
- See post above for tips, details and step-by-step photos.
- As with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scale rather than the cup conversions. Cups are a wildly inaccurate measuring system and you will get far better, more consistent results using a scale, not to mention that it is also easier and less messy than cups!