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Eggless Tiramisu Heart Cake … delicate, delicious ♥ cake for V Day!

Eggless Tiramisu Heart Cake … .. gentle, indulgent, delicious dessert for tiramisu lovers and coffee lovers, dessert lovers too! It’s a heart cake like no other and literally screams pick me up and is quite perfect for V Day! One bite in and you’ll know what I mean!

The flavours inspired by the classic tiramisu, this eggless version leaves you wanting for more. With a base of an eggless coffee sponge, soaked with Kahlua & smothered in the smoothest set mascarpone cream with a surprise coffee cake heart at the centre, each bite is divine. This is my all time favourite kind of dessert!

Actually if you’ve been following my blog for a while, you will know that coffee in desserts is my favourite flavour ever. And if you are new, hello there, I absolutely love coffee. In desserts especially, I think coffee has immense possibilities and pairs beautifully with mascarpone, with chocolate, with coconut and Biscoff too. If you haven’t tried Biscoff, then you are definitely missing something!

Take my word for it, the Eggless Tiramisu Heart Cake is absolutely divine. It has a smaller heart insert, somewhat like an entremet that adds a really nice bite to the cake. That the hidden heart is also drizzled over with Kahlua just adds beautiful flavours to every spoonful. The smoothest mascarpone cream ever, sweetened gently with white couverture chocolate that smothers the cake is indulgent good. And yes, it’s heaven!

You need a little advance planning since the cake needs to set overnight. Other than that it’s quite a simple one bowl eggless cake. For the collar, I made folds on a mousse strip/acetate strip to snugly fit the heart. It took a little trial and error but once done it worked beautifully. You could probably set the cake in a heart mold if you like, else a silicon heart mold if you have one.

More COFFEE desserts

More BISCOFF desserts

Mascarpone recipe here

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Tiramisu Heart Cake

Gentle, indulgent, delicious dessert for tiramisu lovers and coffee lovers, dessert lovers too! It's a heart cake like no other and literally screams pick me up and is quite perfect for V Day! One bite in and you'll know what I mean!
Makes a 6" heart cake
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, coffee, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, homemade, one bowl, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Time to set in freezer and fridge 12 hours
Total Time 13 hours
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  • 105 g cultured buttermilk
  • 25 g oil
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 tsp instant coffee powder
  • 85 g all purpose flour/maida

Mascarpone filling

  • 200 g cream / 25% fat
  • 2 tsp agar agar
  • 20 g sugar (to taste}
  • 100 g white chocolate chopped
  • 200 g mascarpone
  • 25 g Kahlua {or a shot of strong coffee}

Cocoa powder to dust over

Instructions

Eggless coffee sponges

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 6″ and a 4″ heart mold/tin with foil/parchment and grease lightly.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Divide the batter between the tins {about 185g in the 6″ / 75g in the 4″ tin). Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the tops.

Mascarpone filling

  • Place the cream, sugar and agar agar in a saucepan and whisk until smooth. Simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar. Alternatively, this can be done in the microwave in 30 second bursts.
  • Pour this over the white chocolate and leave to stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth.
  • Whisk in the mascarpone just before you need to pour it in. Taste and adjust sweetness if required.

Assemble (see video}

  • Secure an acetate sheet snugly around the 6″ heart shaped coffee sponge.
  • Moisten with Kahlua/coffee. Pour over half the mascarpone filling. Place the 4″ sponge in the centre of the filling and very gently push in a little. Moisten the small sponge with kahlua/coffee, then pour the remaining filling over to cover it completely.
  • Place in the freezer for 3-4 hours until frozen, then gently peel off the acetate sheet. Leave to set in the fridge overnight.

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No Eggs, No Worries! 10 Best Eggless Cakes for V Day! I got you covered

No eggs, No Worries! 10 Best Eggless Cakes for V Day! I got you covered for a wide variety of eggless cakes that you can bake this Valentines Day. You can bake these anytime actually what with egg shortages being reported extensively. The more I experiment and bake without eggs, the more I am convinced that the lack of eggs cannot be a deterrent if you love baking like I do.

This Eggless Baked Ombre Chocolate Cheesecake was one of my favourite baked cheesecakes from over a year ago. You can find that video here on my Instagram feed at Passionate About Baking. You can find a truckload of recipes there and on my recipe handle @pabrecipes.

 CNN calls it the Great New Zealand Egg Crisis. With eggs being very expensive and difficult to find currently, there’s never been a better time to try something new like I did during the pandemic! Yes indeed, I went completely eggless or rather egg free with my baking, and I’m LOVING IT! I’ve never looked back and it gives me great joy to share a few of my favourites for you to bake this Valentines Day.

The list of eggless desserts is endless … eggless frangipane tart, eggless sticky toffee coffee puddings, eggless pastries, eggless lava cakes, eggless baked tarts, eggless layer cakes, eggless baked cheesecakes, eggless zuccotto are all an example of adapting to eggless baking! I struggle to perfect a good eggless roulade or Swiss roll, so that’s something I will continue to try.

Just recently, I figured out how to bake really nice eggless lady fingers or eggless savioardi, hence the Eggless Strawberry Charlotte below. I hope you find what you’re looking for…Happy Valentines Day!

There’s a cake for everyone – chocolate, coffee, raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, saffron, mango, vanilla … hopefully you’ll find a fit for the one you love. There are also different kinds of cakes – bundt cake, charlotte cake, cavity cakes, tart cake, opera cake, layer cakes, a simple entremet as well.

So here goes, please bake something for someone you love ♥!

Eggless Coffee Chocolate ❤️ Cavity Cake
… how deep is your love! If there was cake to demonstrate how deep your love is, this might just be it, the most apt #VDay cake. A heart shaped eggless coffee cake with a heart cavity cut out that is flooded with indulgent dark chocolate will convey your love deeply! This Kahlua moistened cake is delicious, the coffee chocolate pairing my all time favourite.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Saffron Persian Mawa Love Cake
… because the month of love can't go by without a Persian love cake! It's almost Spring in the subcontinent and everything is a riot of colours. With the roses in full bloom, this is one cake I love to make at this time of the year. Saffron and pistachio add delicious notes to the simple one bowl eggless sponge, and indulgent beautiful hues to the shrikhand buttercream. What's not to love in a cake which is simple and stunning!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Chocolate Strawberry Tart Cake
I love everything about tarts. I got this new tart tin that I've been dying to use and I was so pleased to see how well the cake baked up in it, left the sides and base so easily and looked so pretty! This chocolate tart cake is inspired by a dark chocolate strawberry pudding from my cookbook and it turned out great!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Cake
Delicate, calming and deeply indulgent, this is a special cake for now. The cake has gentle flavours and they all come together in a nice balance. An eggless sponge flavoured with fresh orange zest, Cointreau to moisten it {or a sugar syrup if you like}, a quick raspberry compote to bring in the pink, then a vanilla bean layer… Magic in every bite!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake … with homemade eggless lady fingers
Lady fingers are delightful little sponge cakes that are best known to be the base of a tiramisu. They have immense possibilities and this charlotte cake is one of them. That I managed to make it eggless makes me quite happy! Light buttery addictive eggless lady fingers build up the sides, a spiral baked of the same dough make the base. The filling is a silky smooth cream in two flavours, strawberry and vanilla bean, separated by a layer of fresh strawberries. It's a special cake, quite irresistible.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Blueberry Layered Cake
Layered cakes are really fun and always special. This one might look like a bit of work, but trust me, it's as simple as simple can be. A quick one bowl fuss free 'fail proof' batter that is part wholegrain and really moist and flavourful, a 2 ingredient buttercream that is no fail again and has an optional spoon of ghee, then a fruit filling.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Opera Cake
Indulgent layers of coffee and chocolate make this very special cake. This is my vegetarian take on the classic French Opera cake, a 6 layer cake that needs little introduction. Eggless almond sponges, coffee syrup, a potent coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache make up 6 layers that are covered in a shiny, simple chocolate glaze. The cake is traditionally finished with Opera written across the top, possibly the part I enjoyed most.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Love Cake
This is a cavity cake filled with everything that screams love – the most perfect strawberries, luscious dark chocolate cream, then an indulgent vanilla bean cream, all wrapped in a mandarin flavoured eggless sponge.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Baked Cream Bundt Cake
A cake as delicious as it is interesting, that cream baked into the centre is divine! The idea to bake the cream within a cake is really interesting, especially for us on the subcontinent where whipping cream is hard to come by. How fun that you bake two layers of cake with the cream already within!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Saffron Mango Tres Leches Cake
The season of love is incomplete without a mango tres leches! Everything is fresh about this cake. The light sponge, the beautifully addictive milk, the sweet mangoes and then the stabilized cream that holds the mangoes together.
Check out this recipe

… and MORE EGGLESS DESSERTS

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Delicious Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake… literally a hug in a mug!

This delicious Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is literally a hug in a mug! Dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert, this addictive mug cake made with cooked chickpeas will win your heart. This is just deliciousness, love at first bite and so satisfying! ❣️

I make this mug cake for my son for his breakfast every morning and he loves it, looks forward to it every single day. That good! The Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is perfect for breakfast and also makes a wonderful dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily vegan using maple syrup or jaggery, it’s a very simple recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love.

Exploring versatile ways to include chickpeas/garbanzo in desserts has never been more fun, more satisfying. I created a couple of recipes while working with US pulses and it was a brilliant learning experience. Chickpeas or kabuli chana or chole as called locally in India, are more ften than never find there way into savoury dishes. Think pindi chana, think hummus, think chole masala, think chana jor garam, so much you can do with this humble legume. For me, the challenge was chickpeas in dessert, or rather cooked chickpeas in dessert.

Chickpea flour is a little easier to incorporate into desserts and I’ve used it a little. In nan khatais, a native Indian cookie I used to bake when young, or then this flourless vegan chocolate chickpea cake. The cake turned out surprisingly delicious, quite unexpected because that was the the first time I experimented with using chickpea flour in a cake. That recipe can be found in my cookbook.

If the Dark Chocolate Vegan Chickpea Pudding I posted on Instagram a few days ago was good, this Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is as delicious! It’s interesting how easily you can up the protein and fibre to your diet by using humble chickpeas innovatively.

For this mug cake, I cook about a cup of chickpeas until soft and store covered by the the aqua faba/chickpea liquid in a covered steel bowl/glass container in the fridge. I strain the amount of chickpeas I need out every morning, heat the measured amount in the microwave for 30 seconds, add the remaining ingredients and quickly blend. It’s a quick and easy breakfast or fuss free dessert for that matter!

I also play around with the ingredients now that I make the Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake so often. Sometimes I increase the chickpeas by 15g per portion, use a different nut butter, or use a little more nut butter, use honey, or a combination of honey and jaggery powder, or then only jaggery powder. On one instance, I added a tbsp of cocoa powder too but found we preferred the original flavour. Oh I also added a tbsp of Biscoff cookie spread over the freshly baked chickpea mug cake one time. It melted over beautifully and tasted like heaven, still keeping the mug cake vegan since Biscoff is vegan!

Protip: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas to get the most amazing cinnamon undertones in the mug cake. Keep the salt to a minimum.

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake

This is a perfect breakfast and dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily made vegan by using maple syrup, it’s a recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love. Makes two mug cakes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, gluten free, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 36 minutes
Servings 2 people

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
  • 150 g cooked chickpeas warm
  • 35 g whole rolled oats
  • 75 g peanut butter
  • 75 g maple syrup or honey for non vegan
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 40 g coconut milk
  • 50 g chocolate chips

Topping

  • Chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Place all the ingredients except the chocolate chips in a blender and process until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  • Divide the batter between two 250ml mugs, top with chocolate chips and bake for 25-30 minutes until a tester comes out clean.
  • Tent the top with a sheet of foil after 15 minutes to prevent the top from overbrowning.

Note: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas for a deep cinnamon flavour

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    1. What if I don’t have maple syrup?

      To keep it vegan, you can use an equal weight of jaggery powder, brown sugar or coconut sugar. Alternatively, you can use honey

    2. What can I use instead of coconut milk?

      You can use an plant based milk or even a low fat cream if you like.

    3. Can I use quick cooking oats instead of rolled oats?

      Of course. Use quick cooking oats of the same weight if you like.

    4. Can we have add ins?

      Add in chopped nuts, raisins, cocoa nibs etc.

    5. What if I don’t have peanut butter?

      Use any nut butter of choice.

    Eggless Tiramisu Dessert Box … No eggs and simple, this dessert is delicious! #noeggs

    Eggless Tiramisu Dessert Box … with eggless lady fingers from scratch, each bite is heaven! This is one of my favourite desserts of all time. I absolutely love how easily tiramisu can be reimagined in so many different ways, each as delicious as the other!

    Ever since I successfully figured out how to make eggless lady finger biscuits, I’ve had the eggless version of a tiramisu in mind, one I wanted to make in a dessert box. That’s just what I did and I loved how well it worked out. Each bite is delicious and the coffee soaked lady fingers are brilliant in there! Take a look …

    There was a time when I thought baking desserts without eggs was impossible and not worth a try. As time passed, reader requests on Instagram pressurised me to attempt baking without eggs, and I gave up pretty soon. Come the pandemic and I was back to endless experimenting since eggs were in short supply, and honestly, I’ve never looked back!

    Eggless lady fingers were something that I experimented a lot with, trying to get them looking good. I’m quite pleased with these ones. They are easily piped out, taste buttery and delicious and work in a load of desserts. This eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake with eggfree savioardi was fabulous too. You can find the recipe here.

    My baking from then on turned completely eggless and I have never been more satisfied and more motivated to bake. I absolutely love baking without eggs and must admit that I never did care for the taste of eggs in my baking or desserts. I just baked with eggs because that was all I knew!

    And now look at me, I only bake without eggs and I’m absolutely loving it. It’s not that I am a vegetarian because I enjoy cooking curries like a chicken korma or a lamb stew. It’s just eggs that I never liked the taste of, the slight egginess they give to desserts. Just a personal choice I guess but it gave me something to do, something really fun and colourful, definitely delicious too!

    The list of eggless desserts is endless … eggless frangipane tart, eggless sticky toffee coffee puddings, eggless pastries, eggless lava cakes, eggless baked tarts, eggless layer cakes, eggless baked cheesecakes, eggless zuccotto are all an example of adapting to eggless baking!

    Now I look at news reports in the past week where CNN calls it the Great New Zealand Egg Crisis. Media is flooded with reports of egg shortages where everything from meals to baking to menus are affected. Well here I am telling you that baking sans eggs or going egg free is possible, and in many ways much easier than baking with eggs.

    Find a whole world of EGGLESS DESSERT RECIPES on my Instagram handle at @pabrecipes

    My eggless savioardi or lady fingers might not be as perfect as the ones with eggs ones but they are darned delicious and do the job! So of course there are limitations with eggless baking but that’s the fun of things. Find new ways to make dessert and I assure you they taste as nice. It’s a different way of thinking I guess…

    Looking for Coffee Desserts

    More Tiramisu recipes

    And more Eggless Desserts

    Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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    Eggless Tiramisu Dessert Box

    An eggless take on this classic Italian dessert. With eggless lady fingers from scratch, each bite is heaven! Two 4" X 4" dessert box
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine Italian
    Keyword baking, biscuit, coffee, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless lady fingers, eggless savioardi, homemade, lady fingers, one bowl, simple, tart, vegetarian
    Prep Time 30 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Refrigerate 1 hour
    Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
    Servings 4 people

    Ingredients

    Lady fingers

    • Makes 16-18 fingers {Need 1/2 batch for this dessert}
    • 85 g unsalted butter softened
    • 50 g castor sugar
    • 1/4 tsp baking powder
    • 1/4 tsp baking soda
    • Pinch salt
    • 60 g buttermilk/chaach
    • 130 g all purpose flour {plain flour}
    • Castor sugar for sifting over

    Coffee syrup

    • 50 ml strong coffee
    • 1 tbsp brown sugar
    • 15 ml Kahlua {optional}

    Cream

    • 150 g 25% fat cream chilled
    • 3-4 tbsp icing sugar
    • 250 g mascarpone {or cream cheese} chilled
    • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

    Cocoa powder to sift over

    Instructions

    Lady fingers {see blogpost for detailed recipe}

    • Fit a piping bag with large 1A round piping nozzle.
    • In a large bowl, whisk together the butter, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt until smooth.
    • Whisk in the buttermilk a tablespoon at a time. The mixture might look slightly curdled.
    • Add all the flour together and stir with a spatula to get a smooth pasty dough. We’re looking for a firm churro like dough that holds shape when piped out.
    • Transfer the dough to the piping bag and pipe out 3″ fingers.
    • Dip your fingertip into water and shape the piped out fingers around the tops and bottoms to get even shapes.
    • Sift over castor sugar and place the baking sheet in the freezer while you preheat the oven.
    • Preheat the oven to 170C for 20 minutes.
    • Bake the fingers for 17-18 minutes until light golden brown and firm to touch. Cool completely on a cooling rack.

    Coffee syrup

    • Stir the sugar into hot coffee. Cool. Stir in the Kahlua if using.

    Cream

    • Whip the cream and sugar at high speed until lightly whipped.
    • If using mascarpone, whip until smooth, then mix into cream until just mixed in.
    • If using cream cheese, whip the cream cheese until smooth, then whip it into the cream to desired consistency.

    Assemble

    • Line the base of your dessert box with lady fingers. Moisten generously with the coffee syrup.
    • Pipe over the cream, top with more lady fingers and repeat.
    • Refrigerate for about an hour or two.
    • Sift over with cocoa powder.

    Delicious Lotus Biscoff Desserts you need to try … one for every day of the week!

    If you are a fan of Lotus Biscoff and it’s hard to see why not, here are 7 unique recipes to make with either a jar of Biscoff spread {smooth please} or Biscoff biscuits, or both! I have you covered for dessert every day of the week. Each idea is different and exciting, things I brought together in my little kitchen. Read on …

    And if you haven’t dived into a jar of the spread as yet or nibbled one of these crisp flavourful caramelised biscuits, then you honestly don’t know what you’re missing!! It’s hard not to fall in love with the beautifully flavoured, gently spiced biscuits that are originally known as speculoos. They are vegan too I hear.

    Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spices used in speculaas.

    The main ingredients of speculoos are wheat flour, candy syrup (from beet sugar), fat, and sometimes cinnamon. Fewer spices are involved in the process of making Belgian speculoos compared to the Dutch speculaas, as the spices were much more expensive to import to Belgium as opposed to the Netherlands. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos
    Lotus Biscoff Panna Cotta, no gelatine
    Smooth, indulgent, satisfying and so delicious, this #nogelatine panna cotta is heavenly! Every spoonful of the dessert is indulgent, almost like digging into a jar of Biscoff, only lighter and creamier just like a good panna cotta should be!
    Check out this recipe
    Biscoff Banoffee Box
    This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. We love a good banoffee at home, and this Biscoff twist to the banoffee was everything good. It's really easy to make as well.
    Check out this recipe
    Lotus Biscoff Dessert Shots
    Delicious layers of happiness on repeat! These simple dessert shots turned out to be an absolute joy! So much flavour, and texture and oh-so-pleasing on the palette, it's another fuss free dessert inspired by much loved Biscoff.
    https://bit.ly/3GNmsqp
    Check out this recipe
    Lotus Biscoff Tiramisu
    or dessert heaven! It's another dessert on my list of 'must make again soon' and it's all thanks to Biscoff! Just when I thought Tiramisu couldn't get any better, here comes my most favorite version yet. It's simple, it's deep, it's delightful and it has the most amazing coffee caramel notes. 
    https://bit.ly/3WhLcgf
    Check out this recipe
    Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake Cup
    Layers of absolute joy with a gentle play of delicious flavours and textures. It's hard not to get tempted by a jar of Biscoff if you have one on hand, so it's best to hit dessert mode pretty soon. Add some crisp caramel flavoured Biscoff biscuits to it and you have magic!
    https://bit.ly/3CVTJ1M
    Check out this recipe
    Lotus Biscoff Tiramisu Tart
    Never underestimate the deliciousness that Biscoff brings to dessert!If you're looking for a really satisfying dessert and love everything Biscoff or everything caramel or speculoos cookies or tarts in general, look no further. The Biscoff dessert box was much loved when I shared it last week, so I knew that jar of Biscoff spread should be headed for another dessert {rather than spoonful's in my mouth}
    https://bit.ly/3QJ4t9g
    Check out this recipe
    Lotus Biscoff Dessert Box
    Refreshing, delicious and addictive, where each layer calls your name! Bringing together these dessert boxes has become a whole lot of fun, and I am grateful for all the comments and DMs I get. Ever since I shared the first one, I've had several requests for a Biscoff Dessert Box and I finally succumbed to temptation! Here's another play of textures and flavours for you.
    Check out this recipe

    Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

    Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake… fresh and exciting!

    Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake… A delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! It’s now officially the season I love loads where luscious strawberries paint the bazaar red, and the best oranges are here too.

    Up in the plains of North India, we see the strawberry season many times over, actually at least 6 months of the year. We are quite blessed to have a fresh local crop of the berries available so often and nothing pleases me more than this splash of red!

    As you can see, these are one of my favourite berries to play with because they are priced quite economically in season and are quite hardy too. I use strawberries as much as I can and just can’t get enough of them. From desserts in glasses, to cake toppers, to crumbles, tarts, cheesecakes and puddings, that luscious red really adds colour to my desserts.

    This time around, I’m back to making my current favourite bake, a cake in my new tart tin, and I’m loving it. It’s an interesting tart tin so I’ve shared a link since I always get asked where I found it.

    The cake itself is as simple as can be. A one bowl, part wholegrain eggless sponge to which I added orange zest. I loved the natural orange hue the strawberry cake took on. The rest is as fuss free as can be…

    Strawberry season always means a burst of colour and these flavours pair beautifully together. This Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake is a great cake for high tea, for birthdays, as a gift or then as a snack. Play around with the flavours, use a chocolate ganache filling, perhaps a layer of bitter orange marmalade … so many variations for one simple one bowl cake!

    Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this cake or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it! Thank you for stopping by!

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    Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake

    … a delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! Makes one 8" tart cake
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine Italian
    Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, chocolate, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, fruit, homemade, simple, strawberries, sweet, tart
    Prep Time 30 minutes
    Cook Time 45 minutes
    6 hours
    Servings 6 people

    Ingredients

    Eggless orange sponge

    • 210 g buttermilk room temperature
    • 35 g oil
    • 15 g clarified butter/ghee melted
    • Zest of 1 orange
    • 100 g castor sugar
    • 1/2 tsp baking soda
    • 3/4 tsp baking powder
    • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
    • Pinch salt
    • 50 g wholewheat flour/aata
    • 115 g plain flour/maida

    To moisten

    • 20 ml Cointreau or simple orange sugar syrup

    Cream filling

    • 105 g 25% fat cream
    • 1 tsp agar agar
    • 15 g sugar {to taste)
    • 50 g white chocolate chopped
    • 100 g cream cheese softened
    • 100 g strawberries chopped

    To top

    • 75 g fresh strawberries
    • 1 tsp castor sugar
    • Strawberries mint, edible flowers to garnish

    Instructions

    Eggless orange sponge

    • Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease an 8" loose bottom flan tin.
    • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk with a balloon whisk.
    • Pour the batter into the prepared tin, and tap on the counter to level.
    • Bake for 30 minutes, until the tester comes out clean.
    • Cool completely, then demold the cake and place it upside-down on the serving platter. Trim the base if desired.

    Cream filling

    • Place the cream, sugar and agar agar in a saucepan and whisk until smooth. Simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar.
    • Pour this over the white chocolate and leave to stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth. Stand over warm water if required.
    • Whisk in the cream cheese just before you need to pour it in. Taste and adjust sweetness as desired.

    Topping

    • Dice the strawberries and toss them in sugar. Mix around a minute until glossy, then top the cake with them.

    Assemble

    • Moisten the cake with Cointreau or a simple orange sugar syrup.
    • Fill the cavity with diced strawberries, then pour the cream filling over.
    • Place the cake in the fridge to set overnight.
    • Top with the macerated strawberries. Garnish with freshly halved strawberries, mint and edible flowers.

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