Vegetarian Recipes: How to Make a Vegan Cake Do you have a strict vegan in the family who has a birthday or celebration coming up that traditionally calls for cake?
Vegan cakes are just as easy as regular cakes, as long as you make sure your ingredients are vegan. I don’t mean replacing eggs and milk–in plenty of recipes, they are unnecessary. Make sure your flour is unbleached, use raw sugar (not regular granulated white sugar), and unprocessed baking cocoa. If a recipe calls for baking soda and an acid like lemon juice or vinegar, mix the two together before adding them to the batter–this helps eliminate the chemical taste of the baking soda and prevents it from making salty little clumps in the cake.
Here is a recipe for a basic vanilla cake: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=25720.0
And one for a chocolate cake–I made this as cupcakes for my omnivorous family, and they loved them: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6433.0
And here is one for carrot cake: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6653.0
Vegweb has a ton of great cake and frosting recipes, all of which are vegan. Between the recipes and their comments, the baking is nearly foolproof.
If you’re not familiar with vegan dietary practices, you might not know what vegans do not eat. Even worse, you might have no idea how to replace what they do not eat. But don’t worry. In a few short paragraphs, I’ll explain exactly what you need to make the perfect cake for your vegan friend or relative. And best of all, no one will be able to taste the difference. Let’s start with what strict vegans do not eat. They do not eat eggs. They do not drink milk. They don’t eat certain types of sugar. They don’t eat butter. And they don’t eat frosting. Eggs can be replaced by “EnerG Egg Replacer,” which you can purchase at many grocery stores. The box will explain how much replacer to use per egg.
If you’re not familiar with vegan dietary practices, you might not know what vegans do not eat. Even worse, you might have no thought how to replace what they do not eat. But don’t worry. In a few small paragraphs, I’ll clarify just so what you need to make the exact cake for your vegan friend or relative. And best of all, no one will be able to taste the difference. Let’s start with what strict vegans do not eat. They do not eat eggs. They do not drink milk. They don’t eat certain types of sugar. They don’t eat butter. And they don’t eat frosting. Eggs can be replaced by “EnerG Egg Replacer,” which you can buy at many grocery stores. The box will clarify how much replacer to use per egg. Cow’s milk can be replaced by organic rice milk, which doesn’t contain any creature byproducts. You can buy rice milk at your local grocery store, too. Many vegans do not consume sugar, any, because it is often whitened by creature bone char. You can avoid sugar that is whitened by bone char by purcha
