Vegan cake/aquafaba

[JanieB]

I promised to bake a cake for a meeting last Wednesday. Not usually a problem but it turns out our Clerk is a vegan. So I looked up vegan cake recipes. I decided to make the one containing aquafaba (chickpea residue). The first one turned out more like a stodgy, oily, fat pancake. Part of the problem was that my electric whisk gave up the ghost so I went ahead with a standard hand whisk.

The second one was a lot better as I resorted to my 50 year old Kenwood mixer. It's a bit of a beast but a good old workhorse usually only used for large amounts of mixture or mincing and chopping large quantities.

Still not as light as I would prefer, but acceptable. It went down well.

I also made a standard fatless, cream sponge. Also not as light as usual.

I'd never heard of aquafaba before and it makes me wonder who on earth thought of whisking it to use instead of egg white.

[Mamzie]

Have a look at golden syrup sponges, they taste a lot better. My oldest is dairy egg and soya intolerant so have baked a fair few cakes over the years

https://www.scratchsleeves.co.uk/rec...-cake-recipes/

https://lucysfriendlyfoods.com/2012/...en-syrup-cake/

[veggiechicken]

I've never used it but remember it being mentioned on here previously https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ml#post1398690
The Guardian article is still there.

[muckdiva]

This is a good vegan cake, I made it plain and also chocolate by subbing 50g of the flour for cocoa powder. It’s a little heavier in texture but delish all the same. I’m no longer vegan but would still make this

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/v...ia-sponge.html

[JanieB]

I actually make a very good vegan fruit cake which I'd never thought of as vegan until now. The moisture comes from tea. I was trying to ensure that the vegans had the same sort of cake as everyone else.

My cream sponge didn't come out as risen as it should have. Partly because of the defunct mixer and partly because the eggs were too fresh.

Anyway, I've been voted to do it again.

[Vegi potager]

Anyway, I've been voted to do it again.

That's what you get for actually making any sort of cake from scratch. Adulation and the chance to do it next time, in fact I am not aloud to step over the threshold of my in-laws with out cake in hand

I used aquafaba for the 1st time at Christmas to make little meringues, works surprisingly well if you cook them long enough to dry out totally otherwise they melt.