Gluten-Free Strawberry & Yogurt Sheet Cake.
This cake is tender, fruity, light, healthy, and incredibly easy to make! Plus it is gluten,dairy and refined sugar free!
Ingredients
For the cake
- 300 g (2 ¼ cup) gluten-free flour
- 150 ml (¼ cup) coconut oil (melted) ( you can also use light cooking oil such as sunflower or canola )
- 3 eggs
- 360 g (1 ½) coconut yogurt (if you don't need to make it dairy-free you can use normal lactose-freee yogurt)
- 200 ml (½ cup) Maple Syrup
- 240 g (¾ cup) strawberry jam (see notes for homemade sugar-free recipe)
- 2½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
For the frosting
- 360 g (1 ½ cups) coocnut yogurt
- 50 ml (5 tbsp) Maple Syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla powder or the scraped seeds of 1 vanilla pod
- 100 g fresh strawberries (for decoration)
Instructions
To make the cake
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C (or 350 degrees F). Generously grease a 9×13 inch cake pan.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer (or use a hand-held mixer) beat together the oil, yogurt, eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla,. Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and mix until just combined. Gently swirl in the strawberry jam, leaving large streaks and not fully incorporating the jam.
- Pour the batter in the prepared cake pan and bake 28-30 minutes, until the top is just set and no longer wiggly in the center. Let the cake cool down completely before spreading the frosting.
To Make the Yogurt Frosting
- In a bowl of a stand mixer ( or a hand-held mixer) whisk the coconut yogurt until it becomes really thick, around five to 10 minutes. It’s really important to whisk the yogurt on its own first, before adding the maple syrup. Once it feels very thick and holds its shape, add the syrup and vanilla and continue whisking for a further minute.
- Once the cake is completely cooled, spread the frosting over it, top it with fresh strawberries. Slice & serve
- Cover leftover cake tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Notes
To make a sugar-free strawberry jam, check out this recipe.