Vegan Gingerbread Omnia cake

This festive vegan gingerbread cake made in the Omnia is perfect for Christmas. Full of the wonderful flavour of Christmas, gingerbread with lots of homemade gooey jam in the middle. Chocolate and nuts, it really has it all! This recipe was entered by @team_ateem for van bake off 2022 and was very popular on our public vote. If you saw it and wanted to give it a try, this is all you need to know.

This recipe uses plum jam lovingly made by Justyna’s Mum, you could mix it up with different flavour jams if you wanted to.

Vegan Gingerbread Cake

@team_ateem

Vegan

This was the winning entry for the final week of Van Bake Off 22. Absolutely breathtaking, it will definitely impress any guests you may have in your van.

5 from 1 vote

Family friendly – Stove top meal

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Cooling time 3 hours hrs

Total Time 4 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Course Baking

Servings 8

Diet Vegan

Equipment

• Omnia Oven

Ingredients

  

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For the cake

• 200 ml Soy milk
• 100 ml Oil
• 300 g Wheat flour
• 7 tbsp Agave nectar
• 2 tbsp Pumpkin spice
• 4 tbsp Cane sugar
• 1 tbsp Plum butter
• 1 tbsp Cornstarch
• 1.5 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tbsp Cocoa
• 270 g Plum butter

Vegan Chocolate Topping

• 100 g Dark Chocolate
• 100 ml Soy milk
• 50 g Whole almonds

Instructions

 

For the cake

• Pour the soy milk, agave syrup, oil, pumpkin spice and sugar into the pot. Boil it. Add the plum butter and mix well. Leave the mix to cool
  
• In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and cocoa.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
  
• Line the Omnia with the baking paper and pour cake mix.
  
• Bake for 20 mins on high heat and 30 mins on medium heat, then leave it to cool it down.
• Cut the cooled gingerbread cake into 3 parts and spread the plum butter. 
  

For the topping

• Put the dark chocolate in a pot, add the soya milk and heat over very low heat and combine it together. 
  
• Spread the chocolate topping on the cooled, layered gingerbread cake.
  
• Sprinkle the vegan gingerbread cake with coarsely chopped almonds.
  

Nutrition

Calories: 553kcalCarbohydrates: 83gProtein: 7gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 12gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 0.4mgSodium: 286mgPotassium: 228mgFiber: 4gSugar: 38gVitamin A: 16IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 66mgIron: 4mg

Keyword Cake, dairy free, gingerbread, intermediate, omnia, van bake off, vegan

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