Vegan Celebration Cake

One thing I really love making is cakes. I make them for no reason at all, just to enjoy a nice and healthier treat than I could get out there in the shops, but I also love making them for friends and family to celebrate birthdays and other occasions.

Last weekend was my sister’s birthday and Laura came to London for a few days and I could not resist to make her a beautiful vegan vanilla birthday cake. I’d like to share the recipe for the vegan vanilla cake I made her because it was delicious and very easy while still being quite a good looking cake.

Lately I started using shop bought vegan royal icing to cover the cakes. The reasons for using the commercial version is that we do never actually eat the icing, we simply use it for decoration purposes so I found it be quite a waste of good ingredients to make my own. I do make my own royal icing for cookie decoration as we use small amounts and we do eat that 😉 we need to choose our battles to fit our pockets I say!

So, back to the recipe. The cake itself its s simple yet very delicious vanilla cake and then I filled it up with vegan buttercream made with unrefined cane icing sugar. I made three layers of cake with two layers of buttercream in between and the recipe I am proving makes enough for 3 layers of 7 inch cake molds. Possible to make thinner layers in 8inch cake pans too, depends on what height you want to achieve for your cake!

Turn on your oven to 180 degrees Celsius. In a large mixing bowl, put the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and vanilla powder and mix well.

Melt the butter and add the agave and oat milk and then slowly pour this mixture into the bowl with the flour mix until the batter is smooth. Distribute evenly between the three molds and bake for 25/30 minutes until an knife comes clean when cutting in hte centre of the cakes. Let them cool down before taking off the molds to prevent from breaking and prepare the vegan buttercream to set the cake.

To prepare the cake for decoration, take one of the layers and place it in a cake base (or large plate). Spread a thick layer of buttercream and top with the next layer of cake, more buttercream and last layer of cake. Once the cake is built, if you want to decorate it more, go to our post on how to Ice a Cake.