How To Make A Vegan Cake

Making a cake for a vegan sounds like a daunting task and possibly not a very rewarding one. No eggs, no butter, no milk - how can that be a cake, But the secret is to stop thinking of it as a series of prohibitions and think of it as an opportunity to be creative. Your vegan cake may be the best one you have ever made if you think outside the box. You are not making a substitute for a traditional cake. You are making a vegan cake. This is a cake in its own right. A vegan cake might be a stack of pancakes made with buckwheat flour and layered with cashew cream and fresh strawberries. Cashew cream is made by grinding cashew nuts with a small quantity of water in a food processor. Many fruit cakes do not require eggs because they are not intended to rise very high like a sponge cake.

When decorated with icing they will be indistinguishable from any other fruit cake. Obviously you must use vegetable margarine. A brownie type cake can be made without egg using only baking powder to make it rise. It will not have the height of a traditional sponge cake. But once it is cool you can assemble it into a taller and more impressive creation. A cake of this kind can be made with good quality vegetable oil rather than margarine. This has definite health benefits. For preference use wholemeal flour in your vegan cake. You can also cut down on sugar or eliminate it altogether by using applesauce or grated carrot to sweeten it. This will make your vegan cake a much healthier option. Sometimes you will have just have to make a birthday cake. In this case you will have to resort to an egg substitute. There is no other way to get the effect of a sponge that rises and stays risen when baked. The protein in the egg sets in the process of baking. Your local health food store will be able to provide you with a product known as Ener-G Egg Replacer.

Definitely check your cupboards before you head out to buy a small cake pan - as long as it’s oven safe, and the size you want, then you can use it! Even an oven safe mug would work! Take some icing and spread it in the middle to make a middle frosting layer. Honestly, this is optional. Let’s face it - as a smash cake for a 1 year old, this extra effort is not going to be appreciated by anyone but you! It ended up using a lot of icing, but oh well… it just added to the messy fun of the photos! If I had a coupler for the large icing tip that I used I would have switched the icing tip so I could add rosettes around the bottom of the cake where it meets the plate. But I wasn’t about to waste another icing bag, so mine had a bit of a gap between the icing and the plate where you could see cake if you looked at it straight on. Oh, and the two little 4″ round dishes only used up half of the cake mix. Giving the smash cake to Kate was SO MUCH FUN! She loved it, and I love having the photos! Like I said, I’m going to post more photos from her photo session soon!



Towel cake slices are an easy DIY favor for weddings and bridal showers. They are a unique way to add flare to your event. They can be made in any color you like to match your wedding theme which allows them to stand out when placed next to a plate in a seated dinner, or stacked on a gift table. Create a template. With a ruler and pencil, draw onto the cardboard a triangle with a 6 inch base and two 3 ½ inch sides that will form the top of the cake slice. At both sides and the base, draw two-inch thick rectangles that will fold down to serve as the sides of the slice. Place the templates together to form the top and bottom, and then tape all the sides together, except one. Pour your choice of filler into the cardboard slice. Once you have filled the slice, tape the final side together. Place the towel in front of you, and place the top of the cardboard slice on the towel.