Basic (Unintentional) Vegan White Cake
Basic (Unintentional) Vegan White Cake
This cake recipe works great for layer cakes and for decorated cakes. People always say they can't tell it is vegan!
Servings: 2 8-inch rounds
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoonss baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups water filtered
- 2 cups sugar granulated
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract pure
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract or lemon or orange extract
- 2/3 cup oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl (except sugar). Whisk wet ingredients, including sugar, in a separate mixing bowl
- Combine the two mixes, whisking until just mixed (do not overmix). Scrape sides of bowl to incorporate.
- Spray 2 round cake pans with pan-spray and shake 2 teaspoons flour in each pan to coat. Pour batter into pans and bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes (until firm and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean).
- Let cakes cool completely on racks. Pop out of pans and decorate.
Notes
This cake recipe works great for layer cakes and for decorated cakes. People always say they can't tell it is vegan!
Don’t you need 2/3 cup of vegetable oil?
Thank you so much! I updated the recipe now ☺️
Best Lenten cake ever! I used this recipe before but my print out did not show where I got it from.
When I searched it with the same title, yours came up. Anyway, I will be sharing your recipe with my friends. Thank you.
So glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve used it several times for baptism and chrismation cakes during lent. It’s great to have a vegan cake that actually holds it shape enough for decoration!
thank-you so much, needed a recipe for our priest who’s birthday falls during lent!
So glad you could use it to celebrate his special day. Many years to him!
Excellent cake, I have used lemonade, or Orange Juice,or Limeade in place of the water adding lemon/ orange /or lime zest….The extracts can be altered as well…I’m sure other flavor juices would work as well..