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| This gluten and dairy free dessert is the perfect ending to your Easter Brunch. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest. |
My Favorite Mango
Our favorite little mangoes are in season. They come with many names like Manilla, Ataulfo, Champagne, and Honey, with slight variations and places of origin. But they are all small (around 9 to 11 ounces) and as sweet as sugar.
Doug and I have been under the weather so to cheer ourselves up, and with the excuse of having to create an Easter dessert for the blog, we created a cake on Sunday with our very favorite fruit.
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| These are smaller, less stringy, and much sweeter than the large, more commonly found mangoes. |
Easter Sunday is a great time to have family and friends over for brunch and this dessert is a good choice. It's vegan and gluten free so besides delighting everyone's taste buds, it will accommodate most everyones dietary issues. (See "Variation" below for a whole wheat version of the recipe.)
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Mango Cake
Vegan, Gluten and Dairy Free
[makes 12 servings]
Requirements
Electric Hand Mixer
9" round cake pan
Waxed paper, cut in a 9" circle
Ingredients
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for greasing pan
2 tablespoons ground flax seeds
6 tablespoons warm filtered water
1 (10-ounce or more) Champagne mango
2 cups Bob’s Red Mill all purpose baking flour
1½ teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup unsweetened shredded coconut plus some for sprinkling
½ cup organic cane sugar
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon coconut extract
1 mashed ripe banana
Powdered sugar for dusting
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350°F; grease a 9" round cake pan and insert a 9" circle of wax paper on the bottom of the pan.
In a small cup, make flax eggs by combining the ground flax seeds with the water. Beat well and set aside. After a few minutes, beat again until gooey. Set aside.
Peel the mango with a potato peeler. Cut the mango off the seed and dice in small pieces. Some will be used in the cake and some will be used for the topping. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda, salt and the shredded coconut.
In a large bowl, combine the oil, sugar, applesauce, and coconut extract; beat with an electric hand mixer until creamy. Add the mashed banana and flax eggs and beat again until well combined.
Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and beat with the electric mixer until well combined. The mixture will be quite stiff.
Fold in 1/2 cup of the diced mango and set the rest of it aside.
Spread evenly into the prepared cake pan.
Bake until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool in the cake pan for 30 minutes. Cut around the edges of the cake pan and flip the cake out onto a plate. Peel off the wax paper.
I like the looks of the browned top of the cake better than the bottom so flip over again onto the final serving plate. Let the cake cool completely before you proceed.
Pile the rest of the diced mango onto the center of the cake. Sprinkle a bit of shredded coconut over the mango and dust the entire cake with powdered sugar.
Nutrition
Per serving: 181 calories, 7 g total fat, 2 g saturated fat, 310 mg omega-3 and 538 mg omega-6 fatty acids*, 0 mg cholesterol, 3 g protein, 30 g carbohydrates, 3.5 g dietary fiber, and 190 mg sodium.
* Nutritional information for omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids excludes any contribution from Bob’s Redmill all purpose baking flour and xanthan gum since that information was not available from the manufacturer.
Variation
For a whole wheat cake, replace the gluten-free flour with King Arthur’s white whole-wheat flour, omit the xanthan gum, and increase the applesauce to 2/3 cup.
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