At the Kindergarten we attend, a big fuss is made over birthdays. Part of the special day includes baking a birthday cake in the Kindy. Up until now, I had not wanted to interfere with the sacred ritual of birthday cake, so had accepted the non-vegan cake as an exception to our usual rules... anyway I finally had a chat to our teacher about what our options might be, and she asked me to give her a good cake recipe that they could try out... and here is the recipe I put together for her!
2 cups SR Wholemeal Flour
1 cup Coconut Palm Sugar
1 cup Rice (or other non-dairy) Milk
3 tbsp Linseed Meal, soaked in 9 tbsp filtered water
3 small Granny Smith Apples, cooked, pureed and allowed to cool
1 small Granny Smith Apple, cut into small pieces
1 small Granny Smith Apple, cut into slices for decoration
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Grease / line a 9 inch round cake tin.(approx)
Combine dry ingredients in mixing bowl.
Make a well in the centre and add the wet ingredients.
Stir until well combined, then add apple chunks and mix them in.
Pour mix into cake tin, and decorate the top with the apple slices.
I had a little fun and trimmed two of the slices to make a heart shape for the center of the cake :)
Bake 35-45 minutes, until cooked through.
Enjoy!!!
