Vegan Fruitcake
Feeling festive? The fruitcake is a very popular festive dessert served at weddings or at Christmas. Learn how to make the most delicious and healthy vegan fruitcake at home! Easy peasy!
Ingredients
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- ½ cup chopped pistachios
- ½ cup pumpkin seeds
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- ½ cup golden raisins
- ½ cup dates pitted and chopped
- ½ cup mix cubed dried pineapple
- 3 Tbsp vegan butter melted
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 flax eggs 2 Tbsp flax meal + 4 Tbsp water
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ⅓ tsp nutmeg
- ¾ cup fresh orange juice
- ½ cup cranberry juice
- For the glaze:
- 4 Tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- Brush a bundt pan with coconut oil. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, mix the flax egg mixture and set aside.
- In a medium bowl add the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Mix together.
- In a large bowl add the orange juice, cranberry juice, cranberries, dates, raisins, pineapple, walnuts, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, vanilla extract, sugar, thickened flax seed meal mixture, melted butter and mix together.
- Add the flour mixture to the fruit mixture and combine well.
- Pour into the prepared bundt pan and bake for about 45 minutes.
- Let cool.
- Meanwhile, whisk together the powdered sugar and orange juice.
- Once the cake has cooled, drizzle it with glaze.
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