Avocado and kiwi fruit iced birthday cake recipe
This is a simple little cake that I baked for my son’s first birthday. It is absolutely delicious – although he was far more interested in the kiwi fruit topping!
Ingredients
For the cake- 190 ml almond milk
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 85 ml vegetable or rapeseed oil
- 170 ml maple syrup
- 210 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 0.25 tsp fine sea salt
- 2 large ripe avocados
- 0.5 lime, juice only
- 2 tbsp agave nectar
- 2 kiwi fruits, peeled and sliced
Details
- Cuisine: Canadian
- Recipe Type: Cake
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 10 mins
- Cooking Time: 400 mins
- Serves: 8
Step-by-step
- Preheat the oven to 160C. Lightly grease and flour two 15cm cake tins and set aside.
- Whisk together the almond milk and vinegar and leave to curdle for a minute or two. Then add the oil and maple syrup and stir to combine.
- Sift in the dry ingredients and whisk until incorporated and no lumps remain.
- Divide the batter between the cake tins and place them in the oven to bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cakes comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
- For the icing, scoop out the flesh of the avocados and place in a food processor with the lime juice and agave. Process until smooth and whipped up, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Taste as you go and add more agave until you achieve the desired sweetness.
- Remove the cooled cakes from the cake tins. Spread half of the icing onto one of the cakes, then place the other cake on top and top with the remaining icing and the kiwi slices. The lime juice will help to preserve the green colour of the icing, but not for too long, so it’s best to make the icing and assemble the cake just before you intend to serve it.
Greens 24/7 by Jessica Nadel, with photography by Jackie Sobon. Published by Apple Press, £14.99.
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