This soft, moist, and fluffy cake is simple to make and is a fun way to get your veggies in! There are 4 whole cups of spinach in this recipe, but you can’t taste it. It’s easy, tasty, healthy, vegan, dairy free, and nut free!
Usually when you see a dessert this green you would assume it's matcha, but all that coloring is done by spinach! Spinach makes an amazing addition to this loaf cake just to boost the nutritional value and get your green in in a fun way.
This recipe is more like a snack cake than a cake-cake if you know what I mean...kinda like banana bread! But it's still super moist, soft, and fluffy. 🙂 The recipe is nut free, egg free, and dairy free and vegan as long as you use vegan yogurt!
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ingredients in healthy spinach cake
- all purpose flour: binds the cake together while also keeping it light and fluffy.
- white whole wheat flour: this gives the cake more fiber, but not so much that it affects the texture. The main thing it does is make this cake more filling!
- coconut sugar: cane sugar or any granulated sugar is great here, to keep the cake sweet. Pretty self-explanatory. 🙂
- oil: flour-based desserts need oil to keep them moist! I used avocado oil because it's high in omega-3 fatty acids, but any neutral-tasting oil works here.
- nondairy milk: milk is a standard ingredient in most cakes, so it is a simple switch to nondairy milk. My favorite is oat milk, but you can also use almond, soy, coconut, etc.
- apple cider vinegar: in a recipe that doesn't have eggs, apple cider vinegar is very important for leavening. I recommend having this on hand at all times because it's useful in many recipes (many of my recipes have this as well)!
- flax egg: most vegans will recognize this term, but if you're new to vegan baking, a flax egg is a fake egg made from flaxseed meal and water. It does not taste anything like an egg (so don't go frying it on a pan) but it does have a gel-like consistency similar to egg whites. It's purpose is the same as eggs: to bind the ingredients together.
- yogurt: I did use greek yogurt here, but vegan yogurt will work just as well! Make sure it has fat in it, because nonfat yogurts will not achieve the right texture.
- spinach: adds some veggies and color to the cake!
how to make vegan spinach cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line a loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the flaxseed meal and water, then let it sit for 5-10 minutes to gel. Mix in the oil, vanilla, apple cider vinegar, yogurt, and sugar.
- Add in the dry ingredients: whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
- In a blender, or a bowl + immersion blender, blend the spinach with the milk until completely smooth.
- Mix the spinach milk with the rest of the batter and transfer to the prepared pan. Bake for about 50 minutes, let cool, and enjoy!
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Healthy Vegan Spinach Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ cup + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon flaxseed meal +2 tbsp water
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 11 tablespoons coconut sugar or cane sugar
- ⅓ cup 2% plain greek yogurt can replace with vegan yogurt
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 4 cups packed raw spinach
- 1 ⅓ cup oat milk or other nondairy milk
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line a loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the flaxseed meal and water, then let it sit for 5-10 minutes to gel. Mix in the oil, vanilla, apple cider vinegar, yogurt, and sugar.
- Add in the dry ingredients: whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
- In a blender, or a bowl + immersion blender, blend the spinach with the milk until completely smooth.
- Mix the spinach milk with the rest of the batter and transfer to the prepared pan. Bake for about 50 minutes, let cool, and enjoy!
Sheila Phillips
Can gluten free flours be substituted? Also, the sugar is not mentioned in the prep instructions. That's a lot of sugar. Can maple syrup be substituted?