Super moist and simply delicious – that’s the buckwheat cake with chocolate and nuts from Naturhotel Outside. Located in Austria’s Hohe Tauern National Park, the hotel has many nature-loving guests who look forward to coffee and cake after a hike. One of the most popular cakes is the buckwheat cake, whose recipe we reveal here. What makes it special is that it contains no flour, sugar, eggs, or butter – and you won’t miss any of them!
Buckwheat Superfood
Buckwheat is known as a pseudo grain because it is wheat-free and therefore gluten-free. This relatively undemanding plant grows in Europe and is cultivated in Austria, especially in organic farming.
Buckwheat is not only appreciated by people with celiac disease (gluten intolerance), but buckwheat is also considered a superfood. It contains many essential amino acids, fiber, vitamins (E and B12 and other B vitamins) and minerals (calcium, magnesium, potassium). It also contains flavonoids – phytochemicals. These act as antioxidants.
Vegan Baking
As we have learned from hotel chefs, the greatest challenge with vegan cakes and pies is not using eggs. The egg is usually the binding agent in the dough and also gives it its fluffiness. However, in this sophisticated recipe with 2 sachets of baking powder and 500 ml of apple sauce, the consistency is both fluffy and moist.
BUCKWHEAT CAKE - vegan & gluten-free
Equipment
- 1 Cake ring or springform pan (line it with baking paper and grease well)
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 500 g buckwheat flower organic
- 400 g ground hazelnuts organic
- 200 g dark chocolate organic, fair trade, vegan
- 2 pkg baking powder organic
Moist ingredients
- 400 g margarine vegan
- 200 g maple syrup organic
- 500 ml apple sauce organic
- 4 tbsp apple cider vinegar organic
- vanilla fair trade
- orange & lemon zest Wafer-thin strips of the peel
Decoration
- powder sugar
- red currant jam or Cranberry jam
Instructions
Dry ingredients
- Mix them all together in a bowl
Moist ingredients
- Heat the margarine and mix all the ingredients into a creamy mixture
Preparation
- Mix the wet and dry ingredients into a dough
- Pour the mixture into the cake ring / springform pan
- Bake in a preheated oven (170 degrees / = 338 °F - fan oven) for approx. 40 minutes.
- Finally, garnish with powdered sugar and cranberry jam.
By the way: At Green Pearls® Hotels, there is an ever-growing range of offers for vegans. You can find out more about this in our blog post about vegan travel.
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