As Veganuary continues I wanted to try my hand at something new. Having tried many different vegan alternatives, including imitation bacon, and looking at whether the price of your shop is more expensive on a vegan diet, I decided I wanted to try and make a vegan cake.
When it comes to baking I’ve always thought it wouldn’t work unless you had dairy products such as eggs and butter to help with the rise and fluffiness of the final product. However, I did a bit of research and found that there are many different ways you can go about making a vegan cake, from applesauce to coconut milk that can be used in place of dairy based products.
Once I had picked which recipe I was going to do, there were many to choose from, I headed out to my local store to find all the ingredients I was going to need.
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The recipe I was using was an easy Vegan Lemon cake recipe from the Vegan 8 website that had only six ingredients needed to make the actual cake (eight if you want to add the glaze). The ingredients include: 224g all purpose white flour (plain flour), 170g granulated white sugar, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of salt, 210g of full fat coconut milk, 37g fresh lemon juice and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
I found the recipe relatively easy to follow and once everything was measured out, it didn’t take that long at all.
To start off with, I put all the dry ingredients in a bowl, so the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, and mixed them together. Once I’d done that I put the wet ingredients into another bowl and combined them. One of the main tips the recipe gives you is to make sure you mix the tin of coconut milk together until smooth before measuring out and adding to the wet ingredients.
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The next step was to mix all the ingredients together to make the cake batter. When doing this you may think that it's too thick, but trust the process I promise it's supposed to be that way. I then added the mixture to my pre-oiled pan before putting it in the oven for 25 minutes.
After it was cooked and had time to cool I added the glaze made up of lemon juice, dairy-free yogurt and vanilla extract. And voila it was done, now time for the taste test.
I was honestly lost for words at how good this tasted and at how fluffy it turned out to be. You would never know that this was a vegan cake, it tasted the same as any other cake. The glaze was probably my favourite part, the perfect mix of sharp lemon and sweetness from the vanilla.
I would 100% recommend this to anyone wanting to give vegan baking a try, so easy and to die for.
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