coffee cake | A little Swiss, a little Canadian

Happy Father’s Day!!

This is a quick and super delicious coffee tray bake recipe, sweetened with coconut sugar and has just the right amount of coffee flavor, not overpowering at all.

Vegan Coffee Tray Bake

1 1/2 cup spelt flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup coconut sugar
1/3 cup olive oil
1/3 cup plus 2 tbsp warm espresso or strong coffee
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp white vinegar

-Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a 9 x 13″ baking form with parchment paper.

-In a medium bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. In a separate bowl whisk together the coconut sugar, olive oil, vanilla extract, vinegar and espresso.

-Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, mix just until well combined.

-Fill into prepared baking form. Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes or until tester inserted into centre of cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool completely.

-You can top the cake with a coffee glaze if desired. I mixed together icing sugar, vanilla extract and coffee.

Enjoy!

Ursula

There is nothing better than having a slice of coffee cake to go with your cup of coffee. I especially love the unique orange flavor in this cake by using fresh slices of oranges and then topped with cinnamon almond Streusel!

Orange Coffee Cake with Streusel Topping

150 g butter, soft
3 eggs
120 g organic cane sugar
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 ml cashew milk or milk of joice
250 g white spelt flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder

For the Streusel:

80 g white spelt flour
60 g ground almonds
60 g organic cane sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
50 g butter, cold, cut into small pieces

3 – 4 oranges, cut into segments

-Line a 9×13 inch baking form with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350 F.

-For the cake batter, whisk butter and sugar, add the eggs one at the time. Whisk in the salt, vanilla extract and milk. Add the flour and baking powder and mix until well combined. Fill into prepared baking dish.

-Place orange segments evenly on top of batter.

-For the Streusel, mix together the almonds, flour and cinnamon. Cut the butter into small pieces and add to the dry ingredients. With your fingers mix until crumbly.

-Put Streusel evenly on top of oranges.

-Bake in preheated oven for about 50 minutes or until golden brown and tester inserted into centre of cake comes out clean.

-Let cool a bit before cutting into squares.