A perfect cake for the times we’re in – made with store cupboard ingredients and naturally self-distancing! You can remove these vegan queen cakes from the tin without touching them at all.
Growing up, the queen cakes we made were basically fairy cakes with raisins or currants, but there seem to be lots of different versions out there, including some with lemon and some with coconut.
I have included coconut here because it adds moisture and gives a good texture to a vegan sponge cake.
This recipe follows the traditional method of creaming the fat and sugar first, which works well here because there is a relatively high fat content, although still less than a Victoria sponge.
They are very simple to make, and good for treats because they’re sweet without being as sugary as cupcakes or other iced cakes, and they store well in a tin.
This recipe will make 12 queen cakes.
vegan queen cakes…
ingredients
- 180 g white/unbleached self-raising flour
- 40 g desiccated coconut
- 100 g vegan margarine
- 110 g light muscovado or other sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 150 ml oat or other non dairy milk
- 70 g raisins or currants
method
- Set the oven to 180°F/360°F and line a twelve muffin tin with cases. (Muffin cases will allow for some space at the top, but you could also use cases suitable for fairy cakes.)
- Sift the flour into a medium sized bowl.
- Grind the coconut to a rough flour in a food processor or blender, before adding this along with the raisins (or currants) to the flour.
- In a separate, large bowl, beat the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy, using an electric hand mixer or wooden spoon.
- Add the vanilla extract to the milk.
- Alternately, add one third of the flour and one third of the milk at a time to the margarine and sugar mixture, stirring after each addition, until everything is combined and you have a soft cake batter.
- Spoon the mixture into the cases. It should fill them around halfway up (they will roughly double in size in the oven).
- Bake for around twenty minutes, until they are risen and lightly golden on top.
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