Vegan Almond Layer Cake with Almond Buttercream Frosting
This secretly vegan Almond Layer Cake With Almond Buttercream Frosting is everything you're looking to bake this Spring/Summer! It's sweet, moist, easy to make, and you would never guess that it was vegan. SO. GOOD.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup almond flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ⅔ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup vegan egg
- ¾ cup unsweetened almond milk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting
- ¾ cup vegan butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spray two 8-inch cake pans with baking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, almond flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Add egg, milk, oil, and vanilla.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Divide batter evenly between prepared pans.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until done.
Frosting
- Beat butter until creamy.
- Add powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Stir in extract.
Putting It Together
- Place 1 cake layer on a cake board or cake plate.
- Spread 1/2 cup frosting evenly across.
- Top with second layer.
- Spread rest of frosting on top and around cake until completely coated.
- Decorate as desired.
Notes
Substitutions:
- Don't have almond flour? No worries! Add 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract and use 2 cups of all-purpose flour. The flavor won't be as good, but it will still taste like almonds.
- If you aren't vegan and want to make this recipe, use 2 large eggs and 3/4 cup whole milk. To make the frosting, use 1 1/2 cups salted butter.
- If your almond flour is lumpy, you may need to sift it.
- When making the cake batter, make sure you beat out all the lumps! The batter should be smooth.
- You may need to cut the tops off of the cake layers to ensure that they're even.
- If the frosting is too thick to spread onto the cake, add a splash of almond milk.
- The recipe makes one layer cake. We doubled the recipe for the pictures.
- Depending on how you decorate this cake, you may need more frosting.
- We used almond oil based butter for the buttercream.
- Make sure the almond milk is unsweetened!
Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 436kcalCarbohydrates: 52gProtein: 9gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 10gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 60mgSodium: 396mgPotassium: 100mgFiber: 1gSugar: 39gVitamin A: 668IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 105mgIron: 1mg
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