Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Filling

RecipeVeganBeverageDessertBreakfast

Oct 18

Written By Roja Narayan, MD

👉🏽THIS CAKE👈🏽 legit nearly made me cry at 2am standing alone in our kitchen. (#momlife)

Does it even look like a cake??

Whatever.

Sometimes things don't turn out as planned, particularly when attempting a gluten & dairy-free cake without refined sugars, eggs OR almond flour.

WHAT???! (I know, sigh.)

People, I attempted the impossible & although it may not look like a traditional cake, let me tell you, it was DEEEELICIOUS!

At first I wasn't gonna post this because...well look at it .

As you can imagine, 2am is NOT a good time to redo a cake. I had to make do.

I feared it would be complete mush & felt slight palpitations as my son cut into it, but it was SOOOO moist and yummy!

So for all of you with food restrictions, this is my gift to you!!

A WIN FOR ALL OF US!!

🚫grains

🚫gluten

🚫dairy, eggs

🚫almond flour

🚫refined sugars

💯 DELICIOUS!!!

Cake recipe: Detoxinista's coconut flour cake. Tastes like vanilla cake! Modifications: swapped tigernut flour 1:1 for almond flour & 1/4 cup carbonated water per egg. Next time I make this, I would cut back on the amount of carbonated water & see if it holds together better. I would also triple the recipe to make the layers bigger. I doubled the recipe here.

Strawberry filling: The Cookie Rookie. Modifications: used arrowroot flour instead of corn starch & honey to taste in lieu of sugar.

Frosting: Detoxinista’s purple sweet potato frosting. Modifications: used white sweet potato & halved the maple syrup. The frosting was still a tad too sweet for us, so I'd probably reduce the maple a bit more in the future, but it was SOOO yummy. Almost like a luscious custard. Would be perfect in a fruit trifle!

So there you have it.

Woohoo!!! A yummy cake that fulfills the most common food sensitivities!!

Because sometimes, a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do, right???

Happy birthday to the REAL showstopper - my precious son who turned SIX. 🥰