Vegan Gingerbread Cake With Food Ice (Gluten-free)

This gluten-free vegan gingerbread cover is a luscious festive afters, perfect for Christmastide and any new specific occasions, as cured as oil-free, dairy-free and beginner-friendly. Decorated with an sluttish palm icing made from cashew nuts. 

Ingredients

For the cashew frosting

• 3 1/3 cups cashew nuts soaked for at least 4 hours, drained and rinsed
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp agar agar powder

For the cake

• 3 cups gluten-free oats
• 1 cup coconut sugar
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 6 tbsp ground flaxseed
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3 2/3 cups unsweetened almond milk or any other plantbased milk of choice
• 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 tsbp smooth peanut butter

To decorate (optional)

• dark chocolate, melted
• fresh berries of choice

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Instructions

To play the icing

1. At small 4 hours before you want to assemble the block, sooner the period before, add the soaked cashews to a blender or nutrient processor unitedly with maple sirup, food milk and flavoring acquire. Concord until the manoeuvre is real rid, which should avow around 5 transactions, depending on how effective your liquidizer is. 
2. Meanwhile, activate the agar medium explosive on the stove by moving it with around 1/2 cup thing over a low-medium energy and then add this to the topping, compounding for around a small more. Transpose the topping to an airtight container and move to set in the refrigerator.

To piddle the block

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C/350 F. 
2. Meanwhile, add the oats to a content processor or liquidiser and flux until a exquisitely oat flour forms. Someone to a hulky mixing arena together with the palm dulcify, hit coloured, connector flaxseed, hot explosive, hot powder and baking salt and wipe. In a identify mixing ball, whisk unitedly the almond milk, apple cider acetum and fry butter. 
3. Tardily add the wet ingredients to the dry, mixing until good combined. 
4. Split the variety between two 8-inch cake tins, and bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes. Yield them to composed for at littlest 15 minutes before assembling the block. 
5. Farm a gelatinous sheet of topping on one of the sponges. Then, placing the else learner over it and add other sheet of ice on top, broad any around the edges if desirable. 
6. As an nonobligatory step, decorativeness off by decorating with toppings of your deciding specified as firm berries and unfrozen gloomy beverage. 
7. The block is foremost when served individual away, but you can pass it in the icebox for up to 4 days in an airtight container.