Strawberries and Cream Dream Cake
I’m so happy to share this recipe with you all. Sometimes recipe testing goes on and on and on and… you get my drift! The biscuit is too crumbly, the cake didn’t rise, the raw cake didn’t set or worst of all, it’s just tasteless and quite horrible and no matter how many times you test it, something you imagined to be so delicious in your head, just will not work! It was a slightly different story when it came to creating this beauty!
The first time I tested this cake, I leaped for joy! That’s what I do when the first test is already bang-on! I hope you leap with happiness when you taste this perfect summer cake too. Full of wonderful British strawberries, bursting with flavor, in a feather-light layer of vanilla-infused mousse, topping a smooth pistachio layer with a hint of orange, ending with a crunch from the ‘white chocolate’ strawberries and cream Qnola base. It really is one dreamy Clean Cake!
Strawberry vanilla mousse
1 x 400ml can coconut milk, 230g set thick cream140g cashew nuts, soaked in 300ml filtered water with ½ tsp Himalayan pink salt/ sea salt for 3-4 hours250g strawberries tops removedFinely grated zest ½ lemon25g/ml lemon juice100g raw runny honey¼ tsp Himalayan pink salt1 ½ tsp baobab powder, see note below½ vanilla pod, split lengthways and seeds scraped out90g coconut oil, melted
Pistachio orange cream
70g pistachio nuts, soaked in 150ml filtered water with ¼ tsp Himalayan pink salt/ sea salt for 8 hours30g cashew nuts, soaked in 100ml filtered water with ¼ tsp Himalayan pink salt/ sea salt for 3-4 hours80g/ml almond/ cashew/ oat/ rice milk30g raw runny honey50g coconut oil, meltedFinely grated zest ½ orange
White chocolate’ strawberries and cream Qnola base
100g cacao butter70g cashew butter40g raw runny honey¼ tsp Himalayan pink salt½ vanilla pod, split lengthways and seeds scraped outFinely grated zest ½ lemon100g strawberries and cream Qnola/ beetroot Qnola/ quinoa puffs
The night before, place the can of coconut milk in the fridge for the strawberry vanilla mousse layer and soak the pistachio nuts for the pistachio orange cream layer.…