Simple cakes succeed with ingredients that everyone has and are quickly prepared. We will show you how you can bake three vegan cake variations from a basic recipe.
Many cake recipes contain ingredients that you have to buy first and don’t have in the kitchen cupboard. If it has to be done quickly, this is usually impractical. Here we present three vegan cakes with ingredients that everyone has at home. So you can start baking right away.
Tip: Even if you probably don’t have to go shopping for these recipes – look out for ingredients with a meaningful organic seal the next time you go shopping. For example, the Bioland or Naturland seals stand for high standards. With imported goods, you should also rely on fair trade products. In this way you support climate-friendly cultivation methods on the one hand and fair wages for smallholders in other countries on the other.
Simple cake with ingredients that everyone has
Ingredients:
300 grams of flour
100 grams of sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1 packet(s) of vanilla sugar
1 pinch(s) of salt
120 ml vegetable oil
200 ml liquid
Directions:
Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix them together.
Then add the oil and liquid. In this step you mix in other ingredients in the individual variations if necessary. The type of liquid also varies in different cake recipes.
Mix all the ingredients to a smooth batter and pour it into a cake pan. Bake the cake at 160 degrees Celsius for about an hour. A loaf pan works best. For a Gugelhupf you would have to make 1.5 times the recipe so that the form is optimally filled.
Cake variation 1: cinnamon and cardamom
Kanelbullar is what cinnamon rolls are called in Sweden and are made from yeast dough. Cinnamon and cardamom are added to the dough and provide the typical taste. Preparing yeast dough usually takes a long time because of the resting time and can go wrong. The sponge cake alternative, on the other hand, is very simple and tastes similar.
In addition to the basic recipe, you will also need the following ingredients:
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
You can use plant-based milk as the liquid. It doesn’t matter whether you choose oat, almond or soy milk.
You can either put the finished batter in a cake pan or in muffin cases. Muffins don’t take that long in the oven, so you can take them out after 20-30 minutes.
Cake variation 2: coffee and cocoa
You always have coffee and cocoa at home. Not only drinks can be prepared from it, but also a vegan cake.
You have to change and supplement the basic recipe as follows:
You only need 250 grams of flour instead of 300 grams
Divide the 200 milliliters into: 100 milliliters of coffee and 100 milliliters of plant-based milk.
In the second step of the basic recipe, you add two tablespoons of cocoa and one tablespoon of sugar.
When buying coffee and cocoa, pay particular attention to fair trade and organically certified products. In conventional agriculture, the ecosystem suffers and smallholders often work under poor conditions.
Cake variation 3: banana with chocolate sprinkles
You can make the ingredients for the third variation of the basic recipe yourself if you don’t have them at home. You can make grated chocolate by chopping leftover chocolate or grating it with a Parmesan grater. You can also make the banana juice yourself.
In addition to the basic recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
50 grams of grated chocolate
200 milliliters of banana juice as a liquid
Tips: How to use up cake leftovers
A whole cake can sometimes be too much. But that’s not a problem: you have many options for using the leftovers instead of throwing them away.
You can use cake leftovers in the form of rum balls or desserts, for example.
Alternatively, you can freeze the cake. It’s quick and makes it durable. With pieces of cake in the freezer, you can also defrost a piece spontaneously and don’t always have to bake a whole cake right away.
Cake pops are cakes on a stick. You can also use leftover cake for this.
