Orange Oatmeal Almond Cake ( You Bet It's Vegan)

That Cake Has  A Lot Going On

Yo Magpies!

This Friday I wanted to try something new-ish. I had no vanilla in the house, which is kind of a problem when it comes to baking. But meh, I did without it without any major repercussions. So today we have a Orange Almond Oatmeal Cake. It also has coconut, but I thought it would be rather narcissistic if this one baked good had to christen itself orange-almond-coconut-oatmeal cake. We get it cake, you got a lot going on.

So Bangalore totally has its orange season going on. So let's make merry. I also added a note on making a quick batch of oat mylk (takes all of 4 minutes), and you can find that below the recipe.



Here's what you need

11/4 cup flour
3/4th cup oats
1/2 sugar
1/2 brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2teaspoon baking powder
1/2teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
2 Oranges Juiced
1 teaspoon fresh orange rind
3/4th cup almonds blended into almond meal
1 cup oat mylk (or any plant mylk like coconut, soy, almond, cashew)
1/2 cup dried coconut
1/3 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of salt

Just some of the yum going in this baby

How to Make

In a large bowl mix your sugar (you can use 1 cup regular sugar if you don't have brown to mix it with) with your oil, salt, and vanilla (because unlike me you have vanilla, right?). Make sure all the is sugar dissolved. Blend your almonds into a coarse powder (that's almond meal).

That's what blended almonds look like

Add the almond meal into the sugar-oil mix, then add your coconut and oat milk and vinegar. It won't look pretty but make sure to stir well. Now add the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges + your orange rind. Just use a cucumber peeler to scrape the side of an orange. You'll need to finely chop the rind.

That's about how fine you want your rind

It's time to add the flour and oats, do so carefully starting with the flour, then the oats. Ad your baking powder +soda. Ok, so now you have a nice thick (put still a little bit pourable) batter. Grease your loaf pan with a good layer of oil. Preheat oven to 180-185c. Spoon your batter in the greased pan.

Right before going in that oven

Pop that lovely in for about 25 minutes. Check after 20 minutes with a knife.Let it cool for 20 minutes before you try any cutting tricks. You should have a wholesome, zesty, nutty cake that will go perfect with black tea or coffee! YUM.


Quick Oat Mylk Magic

It's magic

To make Oat mylk you just basically do 3/4th water and 1/4th oatmeal and blend. So if you use 2 cups water use  1/2-3/4th cup oats. Now just blend the oatmeal and water for a minute. After that strain it out with a mesh, squeeze the leftover oatmeal pulp for every last drop. You can also add 2-3 tablespoons sugar to sweeten. To make it creamer add 5-8 cashews to the oatmeal and water too before blending. Strain as usual and there's you quick and easy oat mylk!




Have a good weekend, keep it kind, keep it real!