Originally Posted by oneprimalscream

So, my buddy has a birthday coming up, and he's vegan (i.e. - does not consume any animal products, whatsoever).

I know there are lots of vegan cake recipes on the internet, but completely vegan icing? I suppose vegetable shortening, and powdered sugar and flavoring would work, but I always use meringue powder in my icing. Will it be okay without the meringue powder? Anything I could use instead?

Anyways, my main request is for vegan recipes that you have actually TRIED and were SUCCESSFUL.

I am always scared about using recipes off of various sites, that aren't rated, because I've ended up with some really nasty cakes and cookies that way.

Any help would be much appreciated!

PS* I'm glad I gave up veganism

Lol Glad? to his or her own.

Anyways here's a great cake recipe i just made for fourth of july. I made the icing it gives ,but ti was a bit runny. I wouldn;t make it. Some all shortening buttercream will be fine and tastes great. You can even buy some margirine(i suggest Earth Balance) and add it into the icing f you want a buttery taste. The icing shoudl be perfectly fine without the merangue. I've never made any of my icings with merague powder.

As for the cake here's the recipe and i'll give you the egg substitue on the site that i used. Just be aware to cook it jsut a little longer after the knife or stick comes out clean. It needs to be browned or else it'll taste undercooked ,but otherwise it tastes great.

http://www.veganmania.com/

1 whole egg = 2 tbsp water + 1 tbsp oil + 2 tsp baking powder
(what i did was added the water and oil to the wet ingrediants and the baking powder to the dry ingrediants)


trawberry Vanilla Almond Triple Layer Cake

This was what I made for my sons 4th birthday party last year.
It was one of those I cant believe this is vegan food moments. Truly a masterpiece!

The Cake (Three 8 or 9 inch round pans):

4 1/2 cups unbleached white flour
2 1/4 cups beet sugar
2 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 1/4 cups soy milk or other 'milk'
2 tbsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup light, natural oil
Equivilant of 3 eggs, beaten (see the substitutions section of this website)

Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare your pans by placing them on pieces of wax paper, tracing and cutting out the circle-shapes, and lining the bottom of the pans with the wax paper circles.

In large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

Combine remaining ingredients, and add to flour mixture. Beat for 2 minutes.

Bake for 20-30 minutes (depending on your oven) or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out dry. Please be careful not to let this cake overcook or it becomes quite dry. Allow to cool about ten minutes, then run a table knife around the edges to seperate them from the pan. Tap the cakes out of their pans onto a cooling rack, peel off the wax paper, and let cool completely before frosting.

Makes three 8 or 9 inch round layers.

The Ultimate Whipped Vanilla-Almond Frosting

1/2 cup unbleached white flour
1 1/2 cups soy milk
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups margarine
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp almond extract

Cook the flour and milk together over low-medium heat until VERY thick. Chill thoroughly. Cream the margarine and sugar together and add the extracts. Beat in the flour and milk mixture a little bit at a time, until it has the consistancy of a very thick whipped cream. If it seems too soft/runny, keep adding more powdered sugar until it stiffens up to your liking.

This should be plenty to frost the three layers of cake (you may even have some left over...bummer!)

For the decorating:

1/2 pint of fresh strawberries
1/3 cup sliced almonds

Wash, trim and slice the strawberries so that they look kind of like little hearts (no need to go all Martha Stewart or anything, though...). Stick the slices onto the sides and top of the cake in a pretty pattern. Sprinkle the top of the cake with the almonds.

Chill this thoroughly before serving. You do not want to let this cake sit out for too long or the icing will soften and the cake with start to slide around.

Enjoy!!!


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Again, i don;t suggest you make that icing recipe. It tastes good but isn;t very good for decorating(you can find my wonderful adventure on this in the disasters section lol). Ifyou want a chocolate cake they have a recpe on that site that's pretty good to.

But also make sure to ask your friend how strict he is about sugar because most sugar from the grocery store in processed through bone char which some vegans do not consider vegan and therefore do not eat regular white grocery store sugar. Beet sugar or turbanodo(sp?) sugar is vegan, as is corn syrup.

If you have any more questions feel free to pm me!

EDIT: if you don't feel like making a scratch cake, you can use a regular mix ,but let me get you the spacific brand and flavors that are vegan. You can also add the instant pudding to the mix as most people do ,but again please let me knwo if you are going to do this so i can give you the spacific brand and flavors that are vegan. All you need to do is the same thing, the oil and water are obviously vegan ,but for the eggs jsut use the replacement egg i posted above. If you add a extra egg with the instant mix all youhave to do is add an extra "replacement egg". Again jsut let me know and i'll give you the info you need!