Dried Fig and Almond Cake-Refined Flour & Sugar Free | A soft and moist tea time cake made with dried figs, almond meal , desi khand, and whole wheat flour. It is an exotic dessert recipe perfect to serve after a warm main course meal or on special occasions.

Almond dried fig cake is such an easy and delicious recipe. It’s a fluffy, moist, egg less cake recipe. Enjoy the cake for breakfast or tea-time snacks!

Dried figs are delicious as well as nutritious! They are a great source of dietary fibre. Figs have a natural sweetness and chewy texture that’s great for baking with. To know more about figs click here

Why this fig and almond cake recipe

• Easy to make
• Needs simple ingredients 
• Healthy and nutritious
• No maida or all-purpose flour
• Refined sugar free

This eggless guilt-free almond meal fig cake is easy to prepare. Like other cakes, we have to mix dry and wet ingredients together and then bake at an optimal temperature. You can bake it in an oven or without an oven in a kadhai or cooker. Today, we are going to make this cake without oven.You can check my fruit cake recipe where I have explained how to bake without an oven.

I have used whole wheat flour and homemade almond meal to make this a health-friendly fig cake. Making an almond meal at home is quick and easy. For the process, you can watch the video of making this cake. 

Always use fresh curd that is not sour in taste. Chop dried figs first and then soak them for 10-15 minutes helps to make them a little soft and also enhance their flavour. But keep in mind don’t soak it for long otherwise they become mushy and do not taste great. If you want crunchy bites of figs in the cake even you can avoid soaking at all.

You can also use fresh figs to make this egg less fig almond cake but I prefer to use dried figs as they are available all around the year and you don’t have to wait for figs season.

This fig almond cake is a healthy cake recipe as we are using whole grain here and not the refined flour. Also, we are not using any refined sugar too. You can also use other healthy sugar alternative like coconut sugar, honey, palm sugar, jaggery etc.

Almond meal gives a soft, rich texture to the cake and dried fig pieces a crunchy taste.

Ingredients required for dried fig and almond cake

• Flour– Whole wheat flour and homemade almond meal are used in this recipe. Almond meals provide a very soft and moist texture to the cake. If you like a gluten-free cake, you can substitute whole wheat flour with a gluten-free flour mixture.
• Leaveners– both aluminium free baking powder and baking soda are used to give a perfect rise and softness to this fig cake with almond meal.
• Butter– unsalted homemade butter is used. It can be replaced with oil if you want it vegan.
• Curd- homemade fresh curd is used. Soy curd or cashew curd can be used to make it vegan.
• Sweetener- Khnadsari sugar is used to provide sweetness. Other healthy options that you can choose are coconut sugar, jaggery powder, maple syrup etc. If you are choosing any liquid sweetener then reduce some liquid content from the cake.
• Figs – I used dried Afghani figs that are easily available in the Indian market

Try this delicious aromatic cake and you will fall in love with it.

Step-by-step preparation of healthy egg free dried fig and almond cake

1. Take dried figs and chop them into smaller pieces. Soak them in 2-3 tbsp of water for 10-15 minutes.

2. Put a kadhai on medium high flame. Add some salt and put a plate on it. Cover it and preheat for 10-12 minutes. Grease a loaf pan and line it with a parchment paper. Keep it aside.

3. In a bowl add fresh curd and khandsari sugar, mix well till sugar dissolves in the curd. Add vanilla essence and mix well again.

4. Now put a strainer, add whole wheat flour, custard powder, milk powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sift.

 5. Add almond meal and mix well altogether. Now add melted butter and mix again.

6. Finally add soaked figs along with soaked water and mix well. The batter should be of thick consistency.

7. Now pour batter into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper and bake it for 40-45 or until the knife comes clean in the preheated kadhai.

8. Take out from the oven, demold on a cooling rack and let it cool completely.

 9. Once cool down completely, cut into pieces and serve.

Serving suggestions

Serve this rich and moist cake as an after meal dessert or as a snack with a cup of tea or coffee. It is a healthy cake with whole wheat can also be served at breakfast time.

Tips & tricks

1. All the ingredients should be at room temperature.
2. Soak figs for 10-15 minutes if you want them soft feel in each bite, for a crunchier taste add dried figs without soaking.
3. Batter should be thick in consistency.
4. Cool the cake completely before slicing.
5. You can store it up to 2 days at room temperature, for a longer shelf life keep it in the refrigerator. It stays good for 4-5 days in the refrigerator.

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