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Need a healthy, easy, simple, delicious vanilla cake recipe?
If your someone who doesn't love baking ... this is the cake for you! All our ingredients get dumped into a bowl, mixed together well, and placed into a baking cake pan. We adore easy whole food plant-based cooking.
The flavor of this cake along with the 'Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting' is truly such an amazing combination!
**Gluten Free Swap Use- 2/3 cups buckwheat flour and 1 1/3 cups oat flour**
Print the recipe here:
Whole Food Plant-Based Vanilla Cake & Frosting!
By: The Jaroudi Family
www.thejaroudifamiy.com
www.youtube.com/thejaroudifamily
Ingredients:
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
2/3 cup spelt four
2/3 cup oat flour
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
½ cup nondairy milk unsweetened unflavored
½ tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup date paste
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, add in all the dry ingredients and mix together well.
In a small cup mix together nondairy milk and apple cider vinegar and set aside for around five minutes to make a buttermilk substitute
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry mixture including the buttermilk substitute.
After the dry and wet ingredients are completely incorporated move the cake batter to a 9-inch round cake pan
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
[You should be able to use the toothpick test to make sure cake is fully cooked]
Let cake completely cool before removing from pan
Tips:
Add our Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting or our Chocolate Frosting recipe – topped with fresh fruit for our favorite way of serving it!
Another awesome topping option is our easy raspberry jam recipe!!
Whole Food Plant-Based Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
By: The Jaroudi Family
www.thejaroudifamily.com
www.youtube.com/thejaroudifamily
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups cooked Japanese sweet potatoes (without the skin)
2 tbsp date sugar (or 1-2 pitted dates)
1/2 cup raw cashews
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ cup nondairy milk unflavored unsweetened
Directions:
In a high-speed blender add all the ingredients and blend until smooth
If frosting is not sweet enough for your taste, add 1-2 extra pitted dates
Frosting should be very thick consistency
Place frosting into the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes until chilled
Frost your cakes, brownies, or any dessert… I’ve even had the Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting with just fresh fruit!
Tips:
Roasted sweet potatoes in the oven is our favorite way of making this recipe more naturally sweet 
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