Pumpkin Hazelnut Cake with Cranberry Filling

© Sweets You Can Eat by Megan Matthews and Patricia Schroeck 2020

Ingredients

Toast
1 cup hazelnuts, toasted
Cranberry
10 oz. (285g) fresh or frozen cranberries
2/3 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon coconut sugar
Wet
3 tablespoons ground flax plus 1/3 cup warm water
15 oz. (425g) canned pumpkin
1 and 2/3 cup coconut sugar
2/3 cup orange juice
2/3 cup coconut oil
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
zest of one large orange (1 tablespoon)
Dry
2 and 2/3 cups spelt or gluten-free flour mix*
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Makes 24 cakes

*use my gluten free 1-to-1 flour mix recipe or a store-bought 1-to-1 GF baking flour mix

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Prepare two-12-tin cupcake pans with paper cupcake holders.
2. Toast hazelnuts on a baking sheet until slightly browned, watch carefully not to burn the nuts. About 8 minutes, remove, let cool.
3. Combine 3 tablespoons ground flax with 1/3 cup warm water in a large bowl, let soak while you prepare the cranberry filling.
4. Cranberry: Place 10 oz. cranberries into a small saucepan with orange juice and sugar. Simmer on low boil over medium heat, stirring regularly. Let the cranberries steam and boil off the liquid until they thicken into a thick sauce. About 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Set aside.
5. Add into the large bowl containing soaked flaxseed wet ingredients: canned pumpkin, coconut sugar, coconut oil, orange juice, vinegar and orange zest.
6. Once the toasted hazelnuts are cooled. Place them into a food processor or blender and grind them into a medium fine meal.
7. Add nut meal and dry ingredients:  spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt into the wet batter and blend until evenly combined.
8. Fill 24 cupcake tins with batter. Put a large teaspoon of cranberry filling into the center of each cake.
9. Bake the cakes until golden on top, 18 minutes.

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