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 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp 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 1/2 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!
Anonymous
Hi Nags, I don't have bundt cake pan at home. So, can you please tell me if I use regular cake pan for the same recipe. If not, can I make them as muffins?. Just curious!
notyet100
Awesome looking cake ๐
Gayathri Ramdas Sreekanth
But I loved your carrot cake recipe,which used only oil. Was perfectly moist and yum. This looks lovely but I'd rate your mango cheesecake as the best !
Premalatha Aravindhan
Delicious cake,loved the last click…bwn the cake stand luks beautiful:)
Nithya
I love this cake. I tried it last season ๐ The bundt mould has made the cake look so beautiful. Love the first click and your artistic click would have been double awesome if it had a black background to contrast the white sugar powder falling from the sieve ๐
Rinku Naveen
Lovely and perfect bundt cake!
Priti
U bring back 4kgs of mango and don't think abt us …how bad ๐ …cake looks so gud n so the pics
Anonymous
Ain't that yellow color so pleasing! Gorgeous clicks, Naga. I had seen the Holy Cow recipe and bookmarked but never tried. We just ended up eating all our mangoes this season, and Amma made sweet mango pickle with some variety that weren't ripening but was yellow inside. If I do get hold of mangoes (cos I can't see any more of them in the supermarkets now!) I will be trying this cake. I think I would definitely try this with butter, not into vegan yet! Also, I too avoid cake recipes in which oil is a substitute, somehow never liked the texture. This one looks good, and since I have never baked in my Bundt pan yet, I shall definitely try:-) Shreya
Sujata Khanna
I am so glad I came across your site, you make cooking seem so simple and enjoyable.I wonder if you will try the mango cheesecake as well, would love to try it while mangoes are still in season.
Sreelu
mango bundt cake looks delicious !! never baked/ate a mango cake ever, your recipe makes me drool