Delicious Eggless Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies … you are going to love them!

Wholegrain Eggless Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies …. cookies as simple as they are addictive! There was a time I always had a jar of home made cookies on the shelf, baking them once a week at least, sometimes twice. Cookies gave way to desserts and other bakes, yet cookies remain one of my favourite things to bake. They are fuss free, use staple ingredients, allow easy substitution and scream comfort!

For me, it sometimes defies logic that someone should buy a packet of chocolate chip cookies when they can be made so easily with everyday ingredients and taste a million times better! Take a look at the list of ingredients on a packet of store bought ones and chances are you’ll begin baking these at home for good! Staple everyday ingredients, easy process, quick to bake and packed with the goodness of walnuts, I love everything about these Wholegrain Eggless Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies. I also absolutely love using nuts in baking and desserts as you can see!

NOTHING can beat the taste of freshly baked homemade cookies! These Wholegrain Eggless Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies are a fine example. Since they’re egg free, the tasting and nibbles begin at the cookie dough stage. Beware, even the dough tastes really nice! I constantly play around with ingredients and quantities, as I did this time as well. The results were very rewarding and these Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies turned out quite addictive. Fresh out of the oven, it was honestly difficult to stop at one!

If possible, grab a good quality muscovado sugar to make these. I used only muscovado sugar this time around and absolutely loved the deep earthy notes the sugar lent to each bite. I did throw in a spoon of chia seeds too since they were staring at me sitting on the counter. Ingredients do that to me often, talk to me while sitting on my counter, imploring me to experiment with them! Does that happen to you too? I’m glad I threw the chia seeds in coz they worked well in here.

If you’re looking for more cookie recipes, there are plenty on the blog, with eggs and without. There is also a cookie chapter in my cookbook and I love it because it has pretty interesting cookies – Nutella stuffed cookies, eggless biscotti, eggless chocolate raspberry madeleines, eggless chocolate sables, malt cookies, cookies for one, a microwave cookie etc. In addition, it’s packed with loads of chocolate based recipes that look good and are delicious too!


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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Wholegrain Eggless Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

Makes 18 cookies
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, biscuit, chocolate, cookie, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, homemade, simple, vegetarian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 18 cookies

Ingredients

  • 115 g unsalted butter soft
  • 100 g light muscovado sugar/ brown sugar
  • 100 g whole wheat flour
  • 50 g all purpose flour / maida
  • 1 tsp chia seeds
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Pinch salt
  • 50 g walnuts chopped
  • 50 g dark chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line 2 cookies sheets with parchment paper.
  • In a bowl of the stand mixer {or in a large bowl}, whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add the remaining ingredients and mix in at the lowest speed until incorporated.
  • Using a cookie scoop, measure out walnut sized pieces and flatten slightly. Top with chooclate chips.
  • Bake for 17-19 minutes until the tops get light golden brown and are firm to touch.
  • Cool completely on cookie racks.

Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake … as delicious as it is pretty!

Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake… Mangoes, saffron and pistachios come together to create magic, a cake worth every crumb! Hello mango season, I think this is my favourite season just because we are blessed by the best mangoes there ever were!

M is for May, M is for mangoes, or rather an abundance of mangoes. It’s probably the only way to survive the unforgiving, harsh Indian summer where the plains of North India sizzle at 45C-50C. We are quite happy to drown under a deluge of the king of fruits, the luscious mango that makes summer bearable, beautiful too!

If you stop by my feed on Instagram, you might instantly pick out my love for desserts in seasonal flavours, a touch of saffron, a sprinkling of pistachios, that finish with edible flowers or rose petals. For me, it’s always been the visuals and the taste, both equally important, both come together to tell the story like the screenshot below!

These days I’m smitten with mangoes as you might have already guessed. I love the pop of colour they add, I love how beautifully they can lift up a dessert, how well they compliment gentle flavours like rose, saffron, pistachio and how incredibly delicious they are! It’s a fruit we absolutely love to love on the subcontinent, and I believe it brings out the best of our creativity.

This Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake brings together one of my favourite flavour combinations for summer, a celebration of all things Indian! You can find a load of these flavours in Indian desserts or mithai, and they always remind you of how beautifully the ingredients pair together.

Quintessentially Indian, our cuisine is a riot of colours with flavours like these, an inspiration to create pleasing desserts! I really enjoy doing just that …

The Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake Recipe is an eggless cake baked in a special tart tin with an indent, a cake that turned out as delicious as it was pretty. The recipe is a simple one bowl part wholegrain eggless pistachio saffron sponge baked up beautifully in this favourite flan tin.

I doused the cake generously with a deep infused saffron milk, filled the indent of the flan tin {shared below} with the best mangoes of the season, then smothered them with a cream filling. Every slice of the cake is delightful and screams mango season. If you’re looking for the special mango cake this season, honestly this is it!

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 Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake

Mangoes, saffron and pistachios come together to create magic, an eggless cake worth every crumb! Makes one 8" tart cake
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British, Indian
Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, fruit, Indian dessert cake, mangoes, one bowl, pistachios, saffron, simple, summer dessert, tart cake, tropical
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Cooling & Setting time 6 hours
Total Time 7 hours 15 minutes
Servings 6 people

Equipment

  • 1 Flan tin

Ingredients

Eggless saffron pistachio tart cake

  • 210 g buttermilk
  • 35 g oil
  • 15 g clarified butter/ghee
  • Generous pinch saffron
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped pistachios
  • 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

Saffron milk

  • Generous pinch of saffron + 100ml milk + 1 tsp sugar steeped overnight

Cream filling

  • 100 g cream 25% fat
  • 1 tsp agar agar
  • 50 g white couverture chocolate chopped
  • 100 g cream cheese softened

Fruit filling to fill indent

  • 100 g freshly diced mango

To finish

  • chopped pistachios, diced mango, rose petals, mint etc

Instructions

Eggless saffron pistachio tart cake

  • 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/electric 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 gently and place it upside-down on the serving platter.

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 mangoes and fill the indent with them then top the cake with them.

Assemble (see video}

  • Moisten the cake with the steeped saffron milk.
  • Fill the cavity with diced mangoes, then pour the cream filling over.
  • Place the cake in the fridge to set overnight.
  • Garnish with finely chopped pistachios, diced mangoes, fresh rose petals, mint etc

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Biscoff Banana Bread… if there’s one bread to bake now, this is it! #noeggs

Biscoff Banana Bread … eggless, wholewheat, one bowl, fuss free and just so delicious, you must bake this soon! It might not look very pretty and banana breads generally don’t, but the taste, OH MY! This is the most addictive one I’ve baked yet, and I’ve baked many!

Sunday usually begins with baking my favourite eggless banana bread, and this time I gave it a Lotus Biscoff twist. Played around with ingredients yesterday what with a half jar of smooth Biscoff spread staring at me, and came up with the most amazing banana bread with deep caramel flavours.

My Eggless Whole-wheat Biscoff Banana Bread is very, very indulgent. It’s also very moist and satisfying. The simplest recipe ever, one bowl and hand mixed, this is a great breakfast, tiffin or snack option. Use oil instead of clarified butter/ghee and make this vegan since Biscoff is a vegan plant based product.

Dare I also say dessert? Yes, that too! I love to reheat thick slices, 15-30 seconds in the microwave, and serve them with a drizzle of melted Biscoff or a scoop of good quality vanilla ice cream! Enjoy!

If you’re looking for more inspiration of the Biscoff type, and I don’t blame you for that, I’ve got you covered! You can find a whole selection of reels on my Instagram handle at Passionate About Baking. I absolutely love making desserts with this delicious and addictive Lotus Biscoff spread and can offer you a delicious Biscoff dessert recipe for each day of the week! They’re all eggless recipes too. How’s that?

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 Whole-wheat Biscoff Banana Bread

Eggless, wholewheat, one bowl, fuss free and just so delicious, you must bake this soon. It might not look very pretty but OH MY! This is the most addictive one I've baked yet.
Makes 1 loaf (750g approx)
Course Appetiser, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, Biscoff, cake, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, homemade, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  • 80 g clarified butter/ghee melted
  • 100 g smooth Biscoff spread melted
  • 165 g 2 medium ripe bananas mashed well
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 180 g whole wheat flour/aata
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/4 cup chocolate chips
  • To top
  • 3 broken up Biscoff biscuits & chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 8″x4″ loaf tin with baking parchment.
  • Add the ingredients to a large bowl and stir lightly to combine until just mixed.
  • Transfer to the prepared loaf tin and bake for 40-45 minutes/until the tester comes out clean, tenting the top after 14 minutes to stop it from overbrowning.

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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 tarteggless sticky toffee coffee puddingseggless pastrieseggless lava cakeseggless baked tartseggless layer cakeseggless baked cheesecakeseggless 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!

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.

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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