I had never been interested or curious about vegan baking. I try to consume as many veggies, fruits, and legumes as I can to optimize my health, but I am firmly an eggs, butter, and dairy person both in my regular cooking and especially in my baking. Nothing can beat the smell of butter, and eggs add a richness and fluffiness to the texture of any cake. I have always associated vegan baked goods as a poor imitation of the real thing. Whenever I have been asked if also make vegan or gluten-free variations of any of the cakes that I make, and my usual reply is "I don't." However recently, I have already had two good experiences with vegan baking (it also helps that I was baking with a friend so there was also a social element ;) ). The first cake we made was a vegan chocolate cake and the second was a vegan sweet potato rum cake with a rum glaze. For the vegan chocolate cake. I was initially a little freaked out about using vegan butter (it just don't seem right), but it turned out pretty good! The cake was light and fluffy and almost as amazing as my regular chocolate cake. The sweet potato rum cake turned out great! Both my vegan friend and I ended up eating multiple slices of the cake and another non-vegan friend enjoyed it. It is also a healthish cake with the sweet potato, whole wheat flour, and the added fiber from the egg replacement. My apartment smelled like Thanksgiving! My personal take ways:
To recreate the vegan chocolate cake, check out the recipe here. For the vegan sweet potato cake, everything can be found at your regular grocery store and there were no special ingredients except for the egg replacement. The recipe can be found here. I used koala rum which I got at the local liqueur store. I have gone from being a complete and utter vegan baking skeptic to being slightly more open-minded. Stay tuned for more...maybe:)
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Maggie
10/12/2018 01:24:35 pm
This is right on time for Fall! Vegan is truly the way to go since more people are cautious about what they eat or have developed more allergies. Thanks for sharing the recipes and for being open to try vegan baking!
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J
10/12/2018 01:28:44 pm
This is awesome and I'm so excited about the expansion of your repertoire! Looking for to more of these amazing goodies.
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