Mango and white chocolate cake with aquafava

I was not so much aware about this substance aquafava  until I decided to try a healthy eggless cake .I bake egg-less cakes with condensed milk and butter as an ingredient as they help to make the cake soft fluffy and moist. Aquafava  is almost a magic ingredient which can cause miracles in your baking.It is the broth which you get from boiling chickpeas  in water and it creates soft peaks on beating similar to that of egg whites.

Aquafava literally means bean water as ‘aqua ‘ means water and “fava” may have descended from the word ‘fava beans’.You can get this liquid by boiling any beans in water like red kidney beans but chickpeas give you the best result specially the canned ones.

But don’t get carried away by its appearance ,the whipped aquafava though it looks similar to egg whites ,does not give you as much volume as your egg will give ,if  3 egg whites which is about 1 cup when mixed with 5 tbsp of flour can give you a 500 g cake but 1 cup aquafava with 5 tbsp of flour will give you only 250 g of cake.I learnt it through experience.But the texture is great.I am baking with whole wheat flour now a days which make the cake a little dense and difficult to handle but worth trying.

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Mango and white chocolate cake with aquafava

This is a vegetarian eggless cake covered with mango and white chocolate frosting. It is made with whole wheat flour for health reasons .If you are using refined flour the quantity will be the same,the texture will be more light and fluffy

Course Dessert

Cuisine Fusion

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings 6 person

Author indrani

Ingredients

• 5 tbsp Whole wheat flour
• 1 cup aquafava(Boiled chickpea water)
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp oil
• 5 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

frosting

• 1 cup mango puree
• 100 g white chocolate
• Sprinklers for decoration

Instructions

1. grease the baking tin with butter and dust with flour

2. beat aqua fava till soft peaks are formed

3. Add sugar and beat till stiff.Add vanilla

4. Strain the flour,baking soda and baking powder

5. Fold the flour in this aquafava mixture and mix nicely

6. Bake in an preheated oven for 30 minutes

Frosting

1. Melt the white chocolate in microwave for 40 seconds and then beat till liquid

2. add mango puree and mix

3. Slice the cake in half and spread some mango chocolate sauce in between the two layers.

4. Pour the remaining sauce covering the cake.

5. Allow to cool for an hour

6. Decorate the top with cherries and sprinklers

7. Cover the sides with white chocolate shavings.Serve chilled