Christmas Clementine Cake - Recipe

Gluten & dairy free, christmas spiced clementine loaf cake with chocolate ganache.

Serves

Prep in

10 minutes

Cooks in

35 minutes

I’ll admit it, I don’t love Christmas cake or pudding but this cake…I’ll eat the whole thing.

It’s honestly the easiest cake you’ll ever make, you’ll definitely not have stale pieces rattling around in a tin come 1st January & did I mention it’s actually a super nourishing choice too?

Recipe makes 1 loaf.

Key Facts

Nutritionally balanced
Gluten & dairy free
Family friendly
Festive food

Ingredients

CAKE

1.5 cups blended clementines (around 8-10)
1 cup oats
1 tablespoon coconut oil or ghee
1/4 cup cacao powder
3/4 cup flour (buckwheat, regular, or spelt work)
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup unrefined sugar (coconut, rapadura, cane sugar)
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup raisins
2 chai tea bags
Peeling of 1 clementine
2 star anise & 2 cloves

FROSTING

100g dark chocolate
100ml tinned coconut milk
Zest of unwaxed orange

Preparation

01

Preheat your oven to 190°C.

02

Place the raisins, chai tea bags, peelings of 1 clementine, 2 star anise, 2 cloves in 1 cup hot water. Simmer for 10 minutes.

03

Add your clementines, oats, coconut oil/ghee to a pan & warm until thickened like a porridge. Then mix this into the other dry cake ingredients before adding the eggs.

04

Drain any excess liquid from the raisins, fold these into your batter & transfer to a lined loaf pan.

05

Bake for 30-35 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Turn out onto a wire rack & let go completely cold before adding the frosting.

06

Will freeze unfrosted for 3 months or keep in the fridge for 5 days decorated or undecorated.

07

To make the frosting break the chocolate into pieces & add to a bowl with the orange zest. Heat the coconut milk until just about to simmer then pour over the chocolate & whisk until melted.

Let it cool, whisking intermittently. It’ll thicken to a ganache & can then be used to frost your cooled cake!