Click here to printGluten Free Christmas Cake
You either love or hate Christmas fruit cake and I love it! Having gone completely gluten free I wanted to make a Christmas Cake that my body and I could both still enjoy. This one is is made with a mixture of cranberries, while mulberries, currants, sultanas and goji berries but you can really use a mixture of whatever you have on hand.
ingredients
Coconut Frosting
- 2 tbsp Coconut Paste
- 1 tsp Coconut Oil
- 2 tsp Light Agave Syrup or Coconut Nectar
- 270ml coconut cream, refrigerated overnight
- Mint leaves & Goji Berries to decorate
Cake
- 500g mixed dried fruit, roughly chopped
- 3 tbsp Coconut Oil, melted
- juice + zest of 1 orange
- 2 ¼ cup almond meal
- ¼ cup ground flax
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- 4 chia ‘eggs’
- 1 tbsp Coconut Nectar
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Powder
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp cardamom
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
method
- Step 1 : Preheat a fan forced oven to 150°C and grease a bundt pan with coconut oil. Add 4 tbsp chia seeds to ¾ cup warm water and let sit for 15 minutes.
- Step 2 :Combine the fruit (we used currants, sultanas, goji berries, cranberries, white mulberries), coconut oil, orange juice and zest in a bowl and keep to the side.
- Step 3 :Combine the almond flour, ground flax, salt, and baking soda in a medium sized bowl.
- Step 4 :In another small bowl, whisk the chia eggs and then add coconut nectar and apple cider vinegar.
- Step 5 :Combine the dry mix with the fruit and stir through the wet ingredients until combined. Spoon into your cake time and bake for 1 hour. Meanwhile, prepare the frosting.
- Step 6 :Once the cake is cooked remove and let cool in the tin. To remove the cake from the pan, place a large plate over the cake and quickly flip.
- Step 7 :To make the coconut frosting process all of the ingredients until smooth and combined. Frost and decorate with goji berries and mint leaves before serving.
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