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Vegan sugarless (or reduced sugar) cake?

Jul 22, 2008 13:29

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blueheron July 22 2008, 17:49:57 UTC

What about pie? This being strawberry season (where I live), I would heartily recommend the Strawberry Pie in The Joy of Vegan Baking.

The ingredients are simple: Strawberry, pecans (we actually use a pecan and almond mix), dates, lemon juice and some chocolate shavings for decoration/added yumminess.

This is by far one of my favourite deserts, especially when it is the right season.

If you are interested, I will try to post the recipe when I get home tonight.

blueheron July 22 2008, 19:58:57 UTC

I realize only now upon re-reading it that strawberries are probably not the best option for a 1st birthday, since kids shouldn't really be introduced to them until at least 24 months. Doh!

Teach me to get all excited about a recipe. ;)

br0ken_dolly July 22 2008, 17:57:13 UTC

why not take a vegan cake recipe and substitute date sugar? date sugar is my new favorite thing-- it's just ground up dried dates, so it's all fruit and no refined sugars.

it's not SUPER sweet if you're used to the sweetness of cake, and it still is sorta datey/fruity to me, so i've found it's best to put it in something like carrot cake, where it'll blend in nice. i've not gotten brave enough for experimenting with chocolate or vanilla varieties.

as for frosting, i've got no idea how you'd do that without sugar.

blueheron July 22 2008, 19:57:33 UTC

I bet you that would work well with chocolate. Chocolate is a strong enough flavour that you can get away with stuff like that.

br0ken_dolly July 22 2008, 20:05:01 UTC

that's what i was thinking too.

and maybe not straight vanilla but perhaps lemon?

blueheron July 23 2008, 12:34:10 UTC

Oooh lemon!

I have such a soft spot for lemon cakes, and I haven't made on forever. In fact, the last lemon dessert that I made was a Sussex Pond Pudding.

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losgunna July 22 2008, 18:08:19 UTC

One idea for the frosting is to use take your favourite un-refined sugar, and throw it into a food processor to make powdered sugar with. :D

pinkcdcase July 22 2008, 18:13:48 UTC

I love the banana cake and other desserts on http://blog.fatfreevegan.com Although she uses flour.. most of her recipes use agave nectar and turbinado sugar instead of refined sugar and are all vegan. Bonus - recipes are accompanied by delicious looking photos

detsher77 July 22 2008, 18:29:00 UTC

also.. try wheat PASTRY flour instead of regular wheat flour.. it's much lighter and is closer to the consistency of white flour for a softer cake ;) Good luck!

blueheron July 22 2008, 20:00:52 UTC

And for the rest of the world, when you say "wheat flour", you mean "whole wheat" flour?

I think this is one of those weird Americanisms that always trips me up when I visit.

br0ken_dolly July 22 2008, 20:06:57 UTC

the analytical mind/scientist in me gets tripped up too, and i'm american.

all flour comes from wheat (unless it, you know, doesn't-- like rice flour), so i get all confused too.

especially after spending much too much time reading the packages of the different flours in supermarkets to determine which are whole wheat, which are regular white pastry flour vs. whole wheat pastry, etc, etc. IT'S ALL WHEAT!

hah.

hobochan July 26 2008, 19:40:42 UTC

But doesn't saying "whole" before "wheat" refer to whether they've left in all of the bran and germ, instead of just some/little of it?

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