This is an easy and delicious vegan cake making a perfect accompaniment to a cup of coffee.
Ingredients
- 175g self raising flour
- 75g icing sugar
- 60ml extra virgin olive oil
- 40g toasted almonds chopped roughly
- 50ml espresso coffee
- 100ml almond milk
- 60g Makedonikos espresso halva, crumbled
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the chocolate ganache
- 100 ml almond milk
- 150g plain chocolate
To serve
- 20-30g halva, crumbled
- A few toasted almond flakes
Method
Preheat the oven to 170 0 C.
Make the coffee and add the sugar. Stir to dissolve and leave to cool.
In a large bowl, sieve the flour and the baking powder. Make a well in the centre of the bowl. Add the oil, almonds, halva, espresso, almond milk and vanilla extract. Fold with a spatula to incorporate everything.
Grease with oil a loaf tin and dust it with flour. Empty the cake mix into the cake tin and bake in the oven for approx. 35 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.
In a small saucepan, bring the almond milk to the boil. Add the chocolate and stir well to melt. Leave it to cook and pour over the cake. Spread with a spatula and finish with more halva pieces and some toasted almond flakes.