Anna Jones' Amazing Lemon Cannellini Cake
- For the cake:
- two 14-ounce cans cannellini beans
- 2/3 cup (150 milliliters) semi-solidified honey
- Seeds from 1 vanilla bean
- 4 eggs
- 3 1/2 ounces (100 grams) ground almonds
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 1/2 ounces (100 grams) melted coconut oil
- A good pinch of sea salt
- For the lemon icing:
- 7 ounces (200 grams) silken tofu
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon, plus more for garnishing
- 2 tablespoons semisoldified honey
- 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Preheat the oven to 375u0b0 F and grease an 8-inch springform cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Drain and rinse the beans.
- In a food processor, puree the beans, honey, and vanilla seeds until smooth. Then add the eggs one by one, pulsing as you go. The batter will rapidly increase in volume-it's fun to watch! Tip this liquidy mix into a large bowl, then add the ground almonds, baking powder, coconut oil, and salt and fold gently to combine. Anna says: "The batter may be a little looser than you'd expect from cake batter, but don't worry."
- Pour the mixture into the pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes. The cake is ready when it's brown on top, firm to the touch, and a skewer comes out clean.
- While the cake bakes, make the icing. Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until very smooth and shiny, 3 to 4 minutes total. Scrape down from time to time as needed. Transfer to a bowl and chill in the fridge as the cake bakes.
- Take the cake out of the oven, leave it to cool for 5 minutes in the pan, then release from the pan and cool completely on a rack. Once cool, top with icing and finished with additional lemon zest.
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/61848-anna-jones-amazing-lemon-cannellini-cake (may not work)