Frankenstein Vegan Snack Cakes
These Frankenstein Vegan Snack Cakes are a fun, kid friendly way to celebrate Halloween. The cake gets the green color from spinach so the kids will get a bit of veggie goodness, but no one will ever guess!
Servings 8 cakes
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup white whole wheat flour, sifted
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup spinach, tightly packed
- 1 cup plain, unsweetened non dairy milk I used almond.
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup applesauce
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
Decorations:
- vegan frosting
- melted chocolate
- marshmallow
- chocolate chips
- cacao nibs, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 9 x 13 pan with parchment paper. Leave enough paper up the edges to lift the cake out of the pan. Set aside.
- Whisk together sifted flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Add spinach and non dairy milk to blender. Blend until spinach is completely broken down. If you don't have a high speed blender you may want to strain the liquid to remove any spinach bits that remain.
- Add vinegar, maple syrup, applesauce, coconut oil, and vanilla. Blend again to combine.
- Make a well in the center of flour mixture and pour in wet ingredients. Stir together to combine. Take careful not to over mix. It's ok if small lumps remain.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake for 20 minutes or until when pressed lightly the cake springs back and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for a 10 minutes before lifting the parchment paper to remove the cake. Move to a cooling rack to cool completely before cutting.
- Once the cake has cooled cut edges off to remove the cake that browned a bit while baking. Then cut cake into 8 equal rectangles. You can also cut into 16 rectangles to make mini cakes, if you prefer.
- Decorate as desired to create Frankenstein's face.