Vegan Light Christmas Fruit Cake
This Light Christmas Fruit Cake is similar to the traditional Christmas cake but doesn't have quite so many grown up flavours. This makes it popular with kids as well as grown ups who are looking for something not quite as heavy.
Servings: 12 people
Calories: 658.9kcal
Ingredients
For the cake
- 225 g vegan butter
- 200 g caster sugar
- 450 ml soy milk
- 300 g self raising flour
- 75 g sultanas, raisins and currents
- 75 g mixed peel
- 100 g glace cherries
- 75 g cranberries
- 50 g flaked almonds
For the decoration
- 500 g icing sugar
- 250 g vegan butter
- 0.5 teaspoon vanilla paste
- food colouring red, green and yellow
- sprinkles
Instructions
To bake the cake
- Pre heat your oven to 150C / 300F / gas mark 2.
- Line two 6 inch cake tins with baking paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar followed by the soy milk a little at a time.
- Fold in the flour followed by the fruits.
- Pour into the prepared tins.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until it's bouncy to the touch and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and place on to a cooling rack to cool completely.
To decorate
- Cream together the icing sugar, butter and vanilla paste.
- Spread a little of the buttercream on top of the first layer and sandwich the second later on top.
- Using a spatula cover the cake with a very thin layer of buttercream, catching any crumbs.
- Place in the fridge so that this layer sets.
- Using a spatula cover the cake with a second layer of buttercream until no cake is visible.
- Take your remaining buttercream and colour roughly half of it green and red and the remaining icing yellow.
- Mark a triangle on the centre of the cake and then ice the Christmas tree using the green icing and a piping bag.
- Top the tree with a star using the yellow icing in a second piping bag.
- Next, write Merry Christmas beneath the tree .
- Finish by using sprinkles to decorate the tree.
Nutrition
Calories: 658.9kcal | Carbohydrates: 95.87g | Protein: 5.26g | Fat: 28.89g | Saturated Fat: 6.91g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.21g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11.88g | Trans Fat: 0.17g | Sodium: 283.79mg | Potassium: 180.26mg | Fiber: 2.1g | Sugar: 67.93g | Vitamin A: 1664.17IU | Vitamin C: 3.91mg | Calcium: 71.12mg | Iron: 0.78mg