Healthy Vegan Spinach Cake
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!
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!