I am making a cake or cupcakes for a vegan coworker's work baby shower Monday. I have a few ideas (including using that marshmallow fondant) but would love to hear from the experts on this. I have thought about using Cherrybrook but if there is a tastier way to do it, I would rather do that
I want it tasty. And pretty. I don't have a huge amount of time. I will have some time this veining and three hours tomorrow.
Any words of wisdom or ideas?
Use the mix. Seriously.
Egg and dairy free is a few steps down the road to the super-modified class. ;)
You can probably 'doctor' the mix with swirls ( a tiny amount of beet juice makes a pretty magenta that is entirely safe in terms of 'artificial' coler concerns) or add-ins of some kind.
I've never tried the marshmallow fondant-- can't say how well it works or what it tastes like. But if this is a vegan endeavor, do you have gelatin-free marshmallows available?
you can check out http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/ (http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/)
I used her recipes for chocolate wasted cake, egg free pancakes, egg free sugar cookies, and egg free chocolate chip cookies. All of which we love.
The chocolate wasted cake has substitutions for everything that's dairy. She also has a recipe for vegan vanilla cupcakes, but I've never made them.
I have an amazing one that is so easy. I am downtown now but will post as soon as I get home. I have a great frosting as well
Dairy & Egg Free Chocolate Cake
1 1/2 cup flour
1 cup sugar (I use a bit less)
3 tbs cocoa powder
1 tsp baking sode
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp white vinegar
5 tbs olive oil
1 cup cold water
Mix all dry things together
Add all wet things quickly and mix together
Place in greased cake pan
Bake at 350 for 30 - 45 minutes (start testing with toothpick at 30 minutes)
Dairy Egg Free Chocolate Frosting
1/2 cup shortening (we use Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening)
1/2 cup dairy free margarine (we use Fleischmann's Salt free margarine)
3 and 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup soy milk
2 tablespoons Cocoa Power cocoa (leave this out if you want plain frosting)
Beat together all ingredients, adding the soy milk a small bit at a time until you reach the consistency you desire.
That looks like a wacky cake but I don't use olive oil in my wacky cake. Does the olive oil make a difference? Difference in taste?
I think that it makes the flavour taste better using olive oil.
Thanks!! Cm. DH was going to make it with agar flakes. Not real marshmallow
So we found a vegan fondant (unless there is a word that means dairy that I don't know--but I think it's fine). It's Wilton actually, and it has a treenut warning--and a few others, but not peanut. So we bought it. (Don't tell!)
When I've made wacky cake before, it's not been teh kind of cake I can make look sophisticated. Is it for anyone else? Otherwise I may try one of the cakes on that blog. Wow. Y'all should go see this blog!
Our Kroger doesn't carry Cherrybrook anymore. :( And I was going to head into Walmart, tomorrow sometime. But it's good if I can make one of these and don't have to do that. Tomorrow--must pick my mom up, go to church, take my mom home immediately, we're being taken to eat by the elders at church (safest restaurant :heart: ), then driving an hour for an oboe concert, then we come home. Then make the cake and DH has to go to work (Booooo--I NEED him). Then Downton Abbey[/i].
We have used the Wilton fondant before, a few years ago. It didn't have that warning on it then.
I love chocolate wacky cake! I like to add choc chips. and a touch of cinnamon.
I decorate wacky cake as i would any cake. I have made it into a barbie cake, frosted and piped icing, etc...
Good to know. When I made it, it was gooey. I wouldn't have been able to decorate it.
huh....I've never gotten goey... moist and perfect yes, but not at all goey.
you'll have to practice some ;)
I make cupcakes though, for the school staff every year...(ironic I know) but there is one who is dairy free and one who is gluten free. :happydance:
So we made this one:
http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2011/10/vegan-vanilla-cupcakes.html (http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2011/10/vegan-vanilla-cupcakes.html)
In three 8" pans. They fell just a bit. Haven't done anything else to them yet. Batter was yummilicious. And I didn't have to worry about raw egg!!
Quote from: Macabre on January 08, 2012, 11:31:16 PM
So we made this one:
http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2011/10/vegan-vanilla-cupcakes.html (http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2011/10/vegan-vanilla-cupcakes.html)
In three 8" pans. They fell just a bit. Haven't done anything else to them yet. Batter was yummilicious. And I didn't have to worry about raw egg!!
That is the upside of egg-free baking. I love it when we bake cookies at Christmas (plus the cream cheese-based dough I use is so yummy).
It turned out great!!
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/McCobbre/c10644a6.jpg)
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/McCobbre/1bf8b1bc.jpg)
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/McCobbre/723e0b5a.jpg)
Very nice! Do you do some sort of soft icing under the fondant? Or just that on its own?
Nice!
My sister makes vegan cupcakes all the time and they are always so moist and delicious - I'll get her recipes and post them here when I get the chance. Their flavor and texture is just like "regular" cake, IMO. Not sure if that would change when made into a full-sized cake, though...
ohmygoodness, that is beautiful!!
Lovely fondant work!!
Have fun at the shower. :smooch:
Quote from: maeve on January 09, 2012, 08:15:30 AM
That is the upside of egg-free baking. I love it when we bake cookies at Christmas (plus the cream cheese-based dough I use is so yummy).
YES!! And I've started making chocolate chip cookie dough truffles with it. Scoop the dough into small balls, chill and then coat with your preferred chocolate. They are a huge hit!!
Will have to keep this recipe in mind for a cake I need to make in February! Cake looks great
Hezz, is there raw flour in the truffles?
Yes
I made choc chip cookie dough truffles and nobody here really liked them.
Care to share your recipe Hezz? No allergens other than sesame
That puts any cake I have ever made to shame. Its gorgeous.
Becca yes you put frosting on it first.
Quote from: 2boyz4me on January 09, 2012, 05:46:54 PM
I made choc chip cookie dough truffles and nobody here really liked them.
Care to share your recipe Hezz? No allergens other than sesame
http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookie.html (http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookie.html)
this cookie recipe, make balls of dough (I like small pampered chef scoop for sizing), chill, melt chocolate of your choice, coat cookie dough balls with chocolate, chill and enjoy. work in small batches. Then when the bowl of chocolate was getting low and too thick to work with, I mixed in different things to make a bark with it (m&ms, pretzels, marshmallows, candy canes, etc)
This vegan vanilla cupcake recipe is wonderful! I made them tonight. DD and friends will be decorating them tomorrow like owls and cats.
We have to avoid dairy, wheat, eggs, treenuts, peanuts, and lentils and legumes. So we rely on Cherrybrook Kitchens mixes... our daughter loves making them .. her favourites are chocolate chip cookie mix, cake mix, and brownie mix.
Hezzier I'm so glad it worked out well for you! Recipe's a keeper.
We can move this to recipes now. I initially put it in OT to get response.
Such an impressive result! I bet it was delicious.
(http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu281/hezzier/IMG_1894-2.jpg)
This is how DD and her friends decorated the cupcakes.
:rofl: :thumbsup: