Comments on: Christmas is coming

By: Janet

Janet — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:52:26 +0000

Hi Helen, thanks for that. I can’t decide what cake to make for Christmas this year. My little boy is 6 and has only been vegan for about 6 months. He was vegetarian since birth. He still misses chocolate treats so I might experiment with a vegan chocolate/orange cake. I’ll practice with different cakes and see which one is a hit.

By: helen

helen — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:13:52 +0000

Hi Janet, no I don’t use egg substitute, mainly because there are so many wonderful vegan cake recipes around that I’ve never needed to adapt any ‘eggy’ recipes.
In the fruit cake I used sunflower oil, in fact I seem to use oil quite alot with the occasional recipe calling for vegetable margarine (which is usually sunflower as well!).

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:48:20 +0000

Looks lovely. What vegan fat do you use for baking cakes. I have had some success with chocolate cake, carrot cake and lemon cake by using sunflower oil and a small amount of organic coconut oil. I don’t use any egg substitute. Do you?