Add to: Recipe Box | Grocery List | Meal PlannerRecipe submitted by kate-o, 08/08/03
Almond Orange Coconut Snack CakeIngredients (use vegan versions): 1 ripe banana, mashed
scan't 1/2 cup of sugar (I used brown)
Juice from one orange
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1/4 cup almonds (whole, chopped, toasted, whatever)
Directions:Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix banana and sugar until smooth. Stir in orange juice and vanilla extract.
In separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir in coconut and almonds.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and stir.
Pour batter into a greased 8 x 8 baking dish, making sure to spread the batter evenly over the bottom of the dish.
Bake at 350 for 15-17 minutes, or until light golden brown (and toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean).
Delicious warm, slices easier when a bit cooler. Good on day 2, 3...(I have usually eaten it all by day 3). This is pleasantly sweet, but it is not SUPER rich and gourmet dessert-ish. Adjust sugar to taste accordingly. Also, although it comes out flatter, like a brownie, expect the texture to be more cake-ish than brownie-ish. Yum, just thinking about it is making me hungry...
Serves: 9
Preparation time: 30 minutes (including baking)
I made this, except I added 1/2 cup of Sunny Delight, since I didn't have any oranges. It was fantastic!!! Nobody could stop eating it. I also used mixed planters nuts, which worked fine. YUM!!!
Archived comment by: samhaindead
Samhaindead - Sunny Delight is Proctor and Gamble!! Its evil!!
Archived comment by: staygold82
Being new to veg world some of us are not quite up to date on all that is evil yet so I guess we could call samhaindeads version of this recipe Evil Almond Orange Coconut Snack Cake. To bad....it sounds like an interesting twist to the recipe. And I felt compeled to join site just to comment. lol
Archived comment by: vernis
This cake turned out awful for me. There was hardly enough batter to spread over the bottom of the 8 x 8 inch pan. It came out like a flat, rubbery brownie. Perhaps it would have worked better if I had doubled the recipe, I don't know. Maybe tweaking the recipe would help, but I don't think I will be making this again.
Archived comment by: veganosaurus
veganosaurus: Sorry to hear that it turned out badly!! I've never had that problem with the recipe, so I'm not sure what to tell you. Did you use wheat flour? I've never tried it with that, so it could make a difference I suppose...Better luck next time (if you decide to give it another go sometime).
Archived comment by: kate-o
kate-o: I used regular all-purpose flour. I'm not quite sure what happened. It just didn't seem to rise at all, and came out flat and rubbery. I like the idea of the cake though, it sounds yummy (and the end result tasted good, it was just the texture that was ick). I might try it again, and double the recipe like I said, so I have more batter to work with.
Archived comment by: veganosaurus
Veganosaurus--Just trying to help you troubleshoot this. Is it possible your baking powder is old? Theres usually an expiration date on the bottom of the can.
Archived comment by: willwolf
hi willwolf-- I did think of that, but no, its fresh. I bake a lot so I go through baking power pretty fast. I appreciate all the helpful comments! Something must have gone wrong when I did it, I'll have to try again. I really do think the batter was spread way too thin on the bottom of the pan I used, so maybe that was it.
Archived comment by: veganosaurus
