Nut Cake

Name: Nut Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2½ cups (500 g) light brown sugar; 2 tablespoons vegan margarine; 2 tablespoons chopped ginger, optional (see Island Tips); 1 teaspoon vanilla essence, or ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or cassia; ½ teaspoon pink or sea salt, optional (only needed if the nuts are unsalted); ¾ cup (180 ml) nondairy milk; 2 cups (300 g) peanuts or other nuts (see Island Tips)

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Vegan

By Taymer Mason

Published 2021

About

In the Caribbean, some of our peanut brittle recipes are not glassy. Rather, they are fudgelike, as in this recipe. This nut cake is usually sold by sweets vendors, and is good for holiday gift giving. You need a candy thermometer to ensure good results when you make this.

Ingredients

2½ cups (500 g) light brown sugar
¾ cup (180

Dessert
Cake
Gluten-free
Vegan
Caribbean

Method

Grease a baking sheet. Have a glass of ice-cold water standing by in the fridge.
Put the sugar, nondairy milk, nondairy creamer, margarine, optional ginger, vanilla essence, cinnamon, and salt, if needed, in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the sugar starts to dissolve. Increase the heat slightly and continue stirring. At thi