Go Back
Print
banoffee cake recipe

Vegan Banoffee Cake

This vegan banoffee cake recipe is a cross between banoffee pie, banana cake and sticky toffee pudding- a match made is dessert heaven!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American, british, Vegan
Keyword banoffee cake, vegan cake
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Servings 10 people

Ingredients

For the Sponge

  • 360 g plain flour, sifted
  • 250 g light brown sugar
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 bananas, mashed
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 250 ml plant milk, e.g. soya, almond etc.
  • 140 ml coconut oil, melted
  • 6 hobnobs, crushed

For the Buttercream

  • 50 g vegan butter
  • 300 g icing sugar, sifted
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1.5 tbsp date caramel (see below)
  • 2 hobnobs, completely crushed

For the date caramel

  • 100 ml plant milk (for the date caramel)
  • 10 pitted dates

To decorate

  • 1 hobnob, crushed
  • 1 handful banana chips
  • 1 tbsp date caramel

Instructions

For the sponge

  1. Preheat oven to 180° and line x2 20cm cake tins

  2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt to combine.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the melted coconut oil, almond milk, mashed bananas, vanilla essence. If the coconut oil starts to re-solidify, microwave it for roughly 20 seconds

  4. Add the wet to the dry mix and carefully stir to combine. Stir through the crushed hobnobs.

  5. Equally transfer the cake batter to the 2 tins and bake for 35 mins until golden and cooked through

For the date caramel

  1. Submerge the dates with water and microwave for 1 minute until softened. Drain and cool by submerging in cold water and then re-draining

  2. Add the softened and almond milk in a mini blender and blitz until smooth. Add more milk if necessary

For the buttercream

  1. Add the vegan butter, sifted icing sugar, vanilla essence and milk in a large bowl

  2. Whisk to combine, then add 1.5 tbsp date caramel, Continue to whisk, add more icing sugar/plant milk if the mixture is too thin/ thick, respectively

To decorate

  1. Ice the cake with the buttercream and sandwich the cakes together

  2. Add small dollops of the remaining date caramel on the top and make swirl shapes using the top end of a spoon

  3. Sprinkle over the crushed hobnobs/banana chips- Enjoy