Vegan orange polenta cake

12 Jun 2016

Polenta doesn't just work well in savoury dishes but also in sweet ones. This easy vegan polenta cake is very nice and fluffy and has a lovely summery vibe.

INGREDIENTS:

100g margerine
100g brown sugar
Juice of half an orange
120g vegan vanilla custard (e.g. that's one Alpro vanilla dessert pod)
Zest of 1/2 orange
150g self raising flour
50g polenta (fine but not powdery)
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
Icing sugar
Berries (optional)

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METHOD:

Preheat the oven to 180C.

Melt margarine and whisk together with brown sugar, orange juice and the vanilla custard. In a separate bowl mix together the flour, polenta, baking powder and salt, then pour the wet mixture and the orange zest into it and combine. Grease a round cake pan with margarine , pour the dough into it and make sure it's even. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Sprinkle some icing sugar on it and serve with fresh fruit or berries.