Guilt-Free Rainy Day Cake

This is a strawberry and grape cake. It contains no butter or packet sugar. It’s gluten-free, low in bad fat, full of fruit and fibre. And it’s very yummy. Give it a go.

This is a revised abitmoreveg recipe. It’s revised because I had too much cake topping in the original version – I wanted to use up six ripe bananas that I had that day. I mentioned in the recipe that it was better with less of a topping so when I remade it for this post I used much less cake batter to cover the same amount of fruit and it’s definitely the best way to make this cake. And it’s so good. This is also a variation of an old twimii recipe – one of my favourite which I have made so so often – the Apple Banana Cake. This cake is sweeter though.

This sweet treat is gluten-free, dairy free, low in fat, high in fibre and has very little refined sugar in it. I did add some vanilla bean paste to the cake batter and that does contain some sugar but most of the sweetness comes from the fruit. It’s a pretty healthy sweet treat which is why I called it guilt-free and it’s a good way of using up ripe fruit before it’s too ripe. The vegan soft fruit cookies and the apple banana cake are also great for using up fruit.

I have to admit that even though the twimii version is the better cake the abitmoreveg cake looks better – admittedly it was pretty good too. But although this one may not look as good it tastes better.

I called it a rainy day cake because it was raining the day I made it for abitmoreveg – and because you’re using up stuff they way you’ve got to when the rainy day comes.