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Almond Coconut Eggless Cake with Strawberries

Almond Coconut Eggless Cake with Strawberries

Mother’s day provided a great opportunity to try  gluten free recipe of Almond Coconut Eggless Cake with Strawberries,  that has delicious almond and coconut flour as its base and topped with the fresh strawberries. Something that I had almost a year back, was now being re created in my kitchen, with the recipe of my master chef neighbor who takes special extra care to make eggless recipes for me, since he knows that I prefer not to consume egg based products. Love thy neighbor in true sense over here!!

The almons in this recipe  reminded me of  another great diamond shaped dessert, Almond Katli from India. it. Coconut flour gives it a nice dense texture, and the look of red strawberries over a beige/cream cake base is quite attractive. This being a fruit topped cake, it is much simpler and quicker to make.

The cake base even though its flourless, does not loose any of its taste or texture. It  bakes well and holds shape and coconut gives it a unique sweetness and flavor to cake. And the almond flour and coconut flours are readily available at grocery stores.

On this mother’s day, I was pleasantly reminded of how my mother started baking  eggless cakes in a handvo oven, using sand as a base, to give it a slow and even cooking flavor.These cakes by her are the ones that I enjoy most, and are just delicious fresh from the oven. I hope that she will be happy to see that the tradition of exploring more on baking and cooking has continued. So here is the perfect recipe, for me to celebrate the Mother’s day, and  for all, a great recipe for  special occasion with friends and family!

Almond Coconut Eggless Cake with Strawberries

Recipe makes 9*13 inch cake serves 6-8 people
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup butter

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  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 3/4 cup whole milk (for vegan use almond milk or soy milk)
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1/2 cup almond flour
  • 1/2 cup coconut flour

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  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 8 medium sized strawberries, thinly sliced for garnishing

 

Method
  • Beat butter and sugar until extremely smooth for about 5 minutes on high. The color of the butter should become 3 shades lighter then the original butter color.

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  • Add milk and vanilla essence an beat some more

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  • Combine flours,salt and baking powder and mix it into the beaten sugar milk
  • Beat everything for another 5-7 minutes, till well blended.
  • Grease a cake tin 9″ *13″ with butter and some flour.
  • Pour the mixture into the cake pan.

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  • Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F
  • Bake for 40 minutes.

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  • Top it with whipped cream and/or fresh fruit of your choice.

 

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  • Enjoy a piece as fast as you can!!

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Tips

  • While deciding if the cake is ready or not, look out if the cake has released from the sides. Once that happens, the cake is well baked.
  • Give enough time to cool before flipping it over from the containers, as mine broke on the top while releasing it from the container.
  • Beat enough for the flours to blend well .

Instinct Factor

  • Lot of people believe making a cake requires a lot of precision, but in my view it is quite a forgiving dish, as all errors can be more or less made good, either with syrup , or garnishes or layers and sandwiches. And so I used the strawberries on the top to make the top all pretty and professional. Trusting the instincts and my mother’s experience of so many years!!
  • For more moistness and softness, add another 1/2 cup of milk.

Feel Factor

  • A cake for myself and for my mother on mother’s day! A lovely celebration with this extremely delicious flavor of coconut and almond  as well as strawberries. The combination goes well and the cake tastes great even after a couple of days in the refrigerator, but the chances of it lasting that long are slim:) A great mother’s legacy celebrated with this unique almond coconut eggless cake, which is very likely to become a summer feature in our household to enjoy the varied fruit toppings over this summer!
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