Vegan Nibbles: Sugar Plum Fairy Cake

This is my absolute favorite cake recipe, and it’s perfect for the holidays. Sugar plum fairies, hello?!

Amazing vegan blogger Amey of Vegan Eats and Treats adapted this from a Jacques Pepin recipe. My ingredients and method are a tiny bit different than hers, but all credit goes to Amey for figuring out how to duplicate this amazing confection!

Ingredients

1 cup all purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup almonds ground into meal

1 cup granulated sugar

2 egg replacer eggs, prepared or 6 tablespoons apple sauce

4 tablespoons soy butter

1/4 cup soy milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon almond extract

1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

1 teaspoon amaretto

3 ripe plums

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees/gas mark 4. Lightly grease a nine-inch spring form pan.

Sift flour and baking powder together and set aside.

Place one cup almonds into a blender or food processor and pulverize until you have a coarse meal.

In a medium bowl, cream almond meal, sugar, egg replacer or apple sauce, butter, soy milk, extracts, vinegar and amaretto with an electric mixer until smooth. Obviously the batter will have mealy bits of almond in it.

Add the dry ingredients into the wet and mix with wooden spoon until everything is combined. The batter will be thick.

Halve the plums and take out the pits.

Pour batter into the spring form pan and smooth out. Lay plum halves flesh side down, skin side up in the pan to create a circle. Press the plums down into the batter until they almost touch the bottom of the pan.

Bake for sixty minutes. The cake should be golden brown and an inserted toothpick should come out clean.