Vegan Easter bird nest cake

You need this:

For the "nest":

• 375 grams of oatmeal flour (grinding oatmeal in the blender into flour)
• 10 grams (tartar) baking powder
• 1 banana, pureed
• two big tablespoons of Greensweet Extra Sweet
• 150 grams of sunflower seeds
• 1 tablespoon of anise powder
• ceylon cinnamon powder to dust
• hot water

For the topping:

• 4 tablespoons of organic skimmed cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon of Greensweet Extra Sweet
• water

For the eggs:

• 2 x 200 grams oatmeal flour
• 3 tablespoons of organic skimmed cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons of Greensweet Extra Sweet
• 2 tablespoons egg substitute (click here for recipe)
• water

This is how you make it:

By making a wad of a sheet of baking paper and folding it out again, you get the funny exterior of the nest. Cover a round shape (20 cm) with the crumpled baking paper.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Mix all the ingredients, except the cinnamon, for the litter in a bowl. Always add warm water to the mixture until the mixture has become nicely smooth. Pour in the shape, and make a big pit in the middle. Sprinkle the pit with the cinnamon. Bake the nest in the middle of the oven until about 30-35 minutes, keep checking. Allow to cool.

While the nest is baking in the oven, we are going to make the eggs. Stir in a bowl 200 grams of flour with a tablespoon of stevia and the cocoa powder well together, add small bits of water, knead everything well into a dough. Turn out balls (eggs) here. Put the egg substitute in a bowl, and add a tablespoon of water. Stir. Then add the 200 flour and stevia, and add small amounts of water until everything becomes a dough. Turn "eggs" out again.

Put all ingredients for the topping in a bowl and make a nice firm glaze with some water. Spread the pit in the nest with the glaze, and spread the eggs over it.

Source / photos: Monique van der Vloed