I brought back 4kg of mangoes when I came back after my two-week vacation back home. 4-5 days after I got back, they all they started ripening at the same time and pretty rapidly at that. I started panicking and quickly looked up mango dessert recipes. After indulging in a good amount of mango lassi and mango milkshake, I was still left with more mangoes than we could just eat up (what a lovely lovely problem to have!) so I started looking for mango dessert recipes. Although I was tempted to make the no-bake mango cheesecake, the fact that we would both end up finishing it in 2 days deterred me. Another great idea to use up ripe mangoes this mango season would be this 3-ingredient mango ice-cream, or even this delicious mango lassi recipe.
Since I was out of eggs, I started searching for eggless mango cakes. Quite a few popped up and most had some other ingredient that I didn't have either - like sour cream or buttermilk. Then I saw this vegan mango cake recipe in Holy Cow Vegan and decided this is it! A cake flavoured with mango and cardamom, what's not to love, eh?
I've always wanted to take an artistic shot like this. Since I don't use a tripod, it was tricky. Shaking the sieve with my left hand and holding camera and clicking with the right (all the while fearing that the camera would fall and the lens would break *shudder*)
Vegan Mango Bundt Cake Recipe
Serves 10
Adapted from: Holy Cow Vegan
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F / 180C.
2. In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and cardamom powder well together.
3. In another bowl, whisk the mango puree, oil, sugar and vanilla until well combined. Add this to the flour mixture and fold until there are no traces of flour left. Don't overmix, just use your hand whisk or a silicon spatula to do this.
4. Transfer to a a greased bundt pan and bake in the pre-heated oven until the cake is cooked through and a skewer passed through it comes out with a few crumbs in the end. It took my cake about 40 mins to reach this stage.
Transfer to a cooling rack, dust with some icing sugar and serve warm or at room temperature with some mango puree drizzled over it if you'd like.
Notes:
- Although this cake came out just fine, I realised that I am not a fan of eggless cakes using oil as a substitute. I think the mental image that this piece of cake has oil in it turns me off. Although for this mango cake, the flavour of oil was at a minimum, I would just add ½ a cup of melted butter next time when I try it. Of course, then it will no longer be vegan.
- If you don't have fresh ripe mangoes in stock, just use canned mango puree. Works just as fine too.
Also, HUGE thanks to Sakshi for the super cute cake stand she gifted me while we met and roamed around the Bay Area and SFO. You the best!
Nagalakshmi V
yes, vanilla extract
Aarthy
Looks great ! I also got heaps of ripe mangoes. Going to try this. Can u pls tell me whats Vanilla? is it an essence or extract? Thanks
Anonymous
looks great! What's vanilla? is it a extract or essense?
Anonymous
LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS POST!
-Hb.
reuvensc
it looks very delicious
thank you
Anonymous
Hi Nags,
I tried the same recipe from Holy Cow Vegan sometime back. I was a bit apprehensive about trying an eggless cake recipe, but the pics of the mango cake tempted me and I finally gave it a try. The cake did rise while baking but after I took it out, the center of the cake totally sank!! After cutting the cake I found that it was still a bit wet in the center, though I did a tooth pick test before taking the cake out. No idea what went wrong 🙁
Shubha
Nags
sounds like it was underbaked
Jayasri Ravi
I made this cake too.., long back, Of course they don't look as beautiful as yours :), lovely clicks yaar.., each one of them, the best is with the sieve!
Apu
Cake looks wonderful - though I am no fan of vegan cakes myself, I do blend oil and butter for some cakes - try it!!
Amin
Hello! Wonderful post!