Please, please, please Vegan cake recipe!

[SingingLark]

I've just tried a recipe and it was a disaster. Any tried and tested one please?
I need an allergy friendly cake for ds birthday.

This is lush, you just need to find a suitable vegan biscuit for it.

I made a two tier elmo cake for dds birthday and whilst this layer was great the vanilla layer (a recipe from the Vegan society) was awful so I feel your pain!

I don't think it took much longer in a cake pan than it did on the recipe (which is for individual cupcakes) btw.

Thank you thank you.

I'll try it this afternoon.

I got a recipe for vanilla sponge from the vegan society and its awful. Stodgy and undercooked even though I carried on cooking it for 15mins longer (and I'm not bad at baking normally)

Yes mine was terrible too and I pride myself on my baking!

Best of luck

If you look at the recipe page on MN and search for baking without egg (you can always substitute milk & butter for replacements) you will find a few options. I have added a few...

Chocolate Brownies

Carrot, Apple & Raisin Cake

I made a nice chocolate cake recently that was egg free if you are interested (my little dd is allergic)

yes please I'd be interested in the egg free chocolate cake.

Thanks but ds is also dairy allergic and possibly soya but I can use oatmilk and dairy free spread like pure or vitalite.

Cockeyed Cake (from the "I Hate to Cook Book"): a rich, dark, moist and chocolatey cake which is ridiculously easy.

7 oz/200g flour
1 1/2 oz/45g cocoa
1 teaspoon bicarb of soda
7 oz/200g sugar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
5 tablespoons cooking oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 fl oz/300ml cold water

Sift the dry ingedients into a (well) greased square cake tin, about 9x9x2 inches (I actually do it into a bowl and then pour it in as I find otherwise I get wee pockets of unmixed flour in the corners - plus I get the bowl to lick out )

Now make thre grooves, or holes, into this dry mixture. Into one, pour the oil; into the next, the vinegar; into the last, the vanill. Now pur the cold water over it all. You'll feel like you are making mud pies now, but beat it with a spoon until it's nearly smooth and you can't see the flour. Back it at 350F/180C for half an hour.

This time minus the typos

Cockeyed Cake (from the "I Hate to Cook Book"): a rich, dark, moist and chocolatey cake which is ridiculously easy.

7 oz/200g flour
1 1/2 oz/45g cocoa
1 teaspoon bicarb of soda
7 oz/200g sugar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
5 tablespoons cooking oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 fl oz/300ml cold water

Sift the dry ingedients into a (well) greased square cake tin, about 9x9x2 inches (I actually do it into a bowl and then pour it in as I find otherwise I get wee pockets of unmixed flour in the corners - plus I get the bowl to lick out )

Now make three grooves, or holes, into this dry mixture. Into one, pour the oil; into the next, the vinegar; into the last, the vanill. Now pour the cold water over it all. You'll feel like you are making mud pies now, but beat it with a spoon until it's nearly smooth and you can't see the flour. Bake it at 350F/180C for half an hour.

I actually cut it into squares, a bit like brownies - but it could also be iced. I've eaten it iced with melted After Eights, which was very yummy. {bsmile]

thanks for that I will us it for my vegan friend who is having a tough time at the moment and travels miles for her cake treat at a cafe.

carrot cake made with vegetable oil (instead of butter) is really lovely

Thanks prettybird. Does it matter what kind of vinegar? I only have malt at home.

I've been making this for over 20 years (and my mother for longer) and have always just used whatever vinegar I had to hand. When i started makingit, malt was the only type you could get!

A milder one is probably better - but I have never done a comparative tasting!

I also wouldn't use olive oil!

Here you go jenthehen..

Dairy/egg free choc cake

100g Pure spread
2 tbsp syrup
1 tbsp vanilla
290g sr flour
30g cocoa powder
120g caster sugar
1 tsp bicarb of soda

Put spread, syrup & vanilla in bowl, add 300ml hot water & mix till all melted.

Add rest of ingredients & mix well. Put in lined 2lb loaf tin (or 2 1lb loaf tins and then you can freeze one!).

Bake at 160 for 45/50 mins.

I was pleasantly surprised at this one as I have done a few dairy/egg free cakes and am usually disappointed