This vegan vanilla cake is fluffy, moist and tremendous scrumptious. The one vegan vanilla cake recipe you’ll ever want! It’s refined sugar-free (in contrast to most different recipes on the market), full of a superbly thick coconut cream paired with recent berries and edible flowers.
This will not be your sometimes vanilla cake, however one chunk of this deliciousness, and also you’ll be making this cake each time you get a craving or want it for an important day.
I feel the very best half about this cake is that it’s so versatile! You’ll be able to gown it up, or down, relying on what you’d love to do with it. You can also make it 1,2 or Three layers.
vanilla cake ought to be part of everybody’s recipe necessities. For those who desire chocolate, no drawback, my chocolate cake ought to give all you chocoholics on the market the proper repair.
Kitchen instruments wanted to make this bare vegan vanilla cake
The gadgets that you simply’ll must execute this cake are:
- Scales
- Measuring spoons
- Giant bowl
- Small bowl
- Mixing spoon
- Whisk
- 9inch cake tin/s
- Parchment paper
- Wire rack (for cooling the cake/s)
- Silicone spatula or palette knife/offset spatula (for spreading coconut cream)
Suggestions for making this simple vegan vanilla cake
There are a number of suggestions and methods to get the very best outcomes with this cake.
- For those who’d desire to have a lighter cake (in color), use common white sugar. For those who’re within the US, be sure that it’s natural as in any other case, it’s not vegan.
- Use two separate cake tins when you’re making the double layer as you wish to ensure that the cake tin is totally cool earlier than inserting within the oven for even warmth distribution and baking.
- Don’t use frozen berries for adorning the cake. The berries will begin to bleed by shedding their moisture, and your coconut cream will all of a sudden have a pool of berry juice all through it. Not the very best look! Belief me, I’ve made this error, and it ruined the entire cake.
- Berries and flowers are the very best decorations for a cake that shall be eaten the identical day. They don’t maintain nicely for lengthy, so just remember to enhance it if you plan to eat it. Alternatively, use different issues to make your cake fairly. Nuts and seeds, chocolate, dried fruit and flowers are all nice choices. Issues like puffed grains additionally add a stunning texture to the cake adorning. Eg. Puffed amaranth.
- The coconut cream is greatest ready forward of time. I normally purchase full-fat coconut cream that has a thickener in it (guar gum), so the consistency is sweet and clean. As soon as I’ve mixed all of the substances for the cream, I pop it within the fridge to agency up earlier than spreading it on the cake. This sometimes takes about 2-Three hours. We’ve acquired a recipe that shares suggestions and methods and how you can make whipped coconut cream.
- Don’t overmix the batter! You’ll in any other case danger of overdeveloping the gluten and can find yourself with a chewy bread-like cake. We’re not attempting to bake bread right here 🙂
What makes this vegan vanilla cake recipe distinctive?
What makes this cake distinctive is that it’s a more healthy different to the opposite vegan vanilla cake recipes on the market. Listed below are a number of the variations:
- This recipe doesn’t use refined sugar (which is what provides it the darker colored sponge) utilizing a mixture of coconut sugar and good-quality maple syrup.
- There’s no traditional frosting or buttercream on this cake, so it’s a lot more healthy with out the icing sugar, vegetable shortening and/or vegan butter.
- No difficult enterprise! It’s SO simple to whip up even a toddler might make it (along with your supervision, in fact).
- The sponge has solely ten substances, making it faster and extra approachable to place collectively.
For those who’re after a cake that tastes wonderful and that appears lovely however doesn’t include any processed substances, this cake is for you! You’ll be able to eat it guilt-free and share it with family members.
Different cake recipes you’ll love:
- Traditional Vegan Chocolate Cake
- Vegan Lumberjack Cake (Gluten-Free)
- Vegan Sacher Torte (Gluten-Free)
- Vegan Chocolate and Pear Loaf Cake
- Vegan Semolina Cake with Lemon Syrup
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Vegan Vanilla Cake with Coconut Cream and Berries
Yield: 12-14 slices
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook dinner Time: 1 hour
Whole Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Get pleasure from this tremendous easy refined sugar-free vegan vanilla cake recipe. With a vanilla sponge and a easy coconut cream, you possibly can simply gown this cake up for birthdays and different events or pair it all the way down to eat any day of the week!
Components
Dry substances:
- 270g unbleached plain flour
- 1.5 tbsp (14g) baking powder
- ½ tsp (3g) bicarb soda
- 160g coconut sugar
- ½ tsp salt
Moist substances:
- 250ml plant-based milk (I used natural soy)
- 105ml neutral-tasting oil (I used rice bran oil)
- 80ml good-quality maple syrup
- 1 tsp (3ml) apple cider vinegar
- 1.5 tsp (3ml) vanilla extract
- 1 flax egg
Toppings:
- Whipped coconut cream
- Your alternative of berries (I used half a punnet every of blueberries, strawberries and raspberries and please use natural the place attainable)
- Edible flowers
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180C (355F) and place the oven rack within the center. Line a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper and grease the perimeters for straightforward removing from the pan. Put aside.
- In a big bowl, sift all of the dry substances and whisk collectively to mix nicely and to take away any clumps.
- In a separate smaller bowl, mix all of the moist substances and whisk them till they’re additionally nicely mixed and barely frothy.
- Pour the moist substances into the dry and blend utilizing the whisk till there are not any lumps. Please do not over combine!
- Pour batter into the ready tin and faucet on the benchtop a number of occasions to launch any air bubbles.
- Place on the center rack within the oven baking for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Bake till the skewer comes out clear when inserted into the center of the cake. Please do not be tempted to open the oven any sooner as it will make the cake collapse within the center because it cools. You will notice that the cake is beginning to separate from the perimeters of the pan, that is when you possibly can check to see if it is completed. You need the cake to spring again when you contact the highest.
- Whereas the cake bakes, you possibly can put together your whipped coconut cream.
- As soon as the cake is finished, let it cool within the pan for 15 minutes earlier than fastidiously eradicating it and letting it fully cool on a wire rack.
- As soon as the cake is totally cooled, refrigerate.
- While you’re prepared so as to add toppings, take away the cake from the fridge and clean the whipped coconut cream over the cake and enhance it with berries and edible flowers.
- For those who’re making the two-tier cake, unfold coconut cream within the center and add a layer of minimize strawberries, then gently press down the second cake on prime. End off with extra whipped cream and decorations as desired.
- The sponge will preserve at room temperature in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days undecorated or within the fridge for Three days with the coconut whipped cream. We suggest if adorning with berries and edible flowers that the cake will look its greatest when executed on the identical day.
Notes
* Please take word that this recipe is just for one vanilla cake on this two-tiered cake. Double the recipe to get the identical look as pictured. Be sure that to additionally double the whipped coconut cream recipe.
