Spice Cake
Delicious spice cake made with oats, cinnamon and nutmeg, along with brown sugar. The cake come out darker and look like a chocolate cake, but it does not contain any chocolate at all!
Ingredients
For the cake:
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1½ cups oat flour
- ½ cup oats
- 1⅓ cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⅓ cup milk
For the buttercream:
- 8 oz. (225 grams) cream cheese
- 2 sticks (200 grams) unsalted butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- To make oat flour, place some oats in a food processor or blender and ground the oats up. It's okay if it’s not completely ground.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350°F.
- Spray and line three 6- inch cake pans.
- In a bowl, combine the flour, oat flour, ground oats, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon and mix together.
- In another bowl, combine the oil, eggs, milk and vanilla and whisk together until fully combined.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry and mix until combined.
- Divide the batter evenly among the three cake pans and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool for 10 minutes then carefully remove the cake from the pans and continue to cool.
- For the buttercream: combine all the ingredients in an electric mixer bowl fit with a whisk attachment.
- Put the mixer on low until the powdered sugar is mostly mixed in.
- Increase the speed and whip until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Assemble the cake: cut the top of each cake with a serrated knife to get a flat surface, stack the cakes one on top of the other and spread buttercream between the layers.
- Spread buttercream on the top and sides of the cake.
- Enjoy!