Almond Mocha Layer

Name: Almond Mocha Layer
Yield: Serves 10-12 (or 25-30 wedding cake style)
Ingredients: 100 g ground almonds; 250 g soft light brown sugar; 250 g caster sugar; 350 g self-raising flour; 3 x 20 cm sandwich tins, greased, then lined on the bottom only; 2 tbsp instant espresso powder; 6 tbsp almond butter; handful of roasted almonds; 50 ml strong coffee; 2 tbsp vegan mayo; salt; 1 layer cake batch of Vegan Basic Buttercream; 100 g good quality cocoa powder, the darker the better; 2 tsp baking powder; 400 ml almond milk; 200 ml sunflower oil

Preparation info

Serves
10-12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bad Girl Bakery

By Jeni Iannetta

Published 2021

About

This is a lovely, rich, plant-based cake with a subtle coffee flavour that works really well with the almonds, and the pale buttercream looks great on the dark chocolate sponge.

Ingredients

3 x 20 cm sandwich tins, greased, then lined on the bottom only
350 g self-raising flour
250

Vegetarian
Cake
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan).

Weigh the flour, caster and light brown sugars, ground almonds, cocoa and baking powder into a big bowl or a stand mixer and add a pinch of salt. Give it all a quick mix (on low if you’re using a mixer).

Measure the