Sunday, February 24, 2013

My Birthday...no cake for me??

It was my birthday this month! Happy birthday to me!!
 As the day was approaching I started to remember how much I loved cake! Oh no! What was I going to do? Could I ever eat cake again??
Answer: Of course you can! Yay!

Next step...I needed to find a recipe for vegan cake.
There are actually quite a few. They all looked and sounded really tasty too!
Problem is.....I am NOT much of a baker. To top it off...it was starting to look a little pricey as well.


 But then I remembered a co-worker that I had worked with use to make a Weight Watchers cake. All it called for was a can of diet coke and a box of cake mix. Hmmmm.....idea!
I searched all over to find a box of cake mix that was vegan. Turns out there is a whole list of the Duncan Hines cake mixes PLUS frosting! Score!
The two ingredients in the Duncan Hines products which may be animal derived, Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids and Mono & diglycerides , Duncan Hines states that they are both of vegetable sources and not from animal source. As well as Kosher pareve. Depending on how strict of a vegan you are, it does contain sugar. I have read many times that when a product lists just "Sugar" then it is most likely beet sugar. Beet sugar is considered vegan. Not processed with bone char.  Some vegans stay away from sugar due to not knowing. All organic sugar , whether cane or beet, is suitable for vegans , as well as other sugar types like turbinado , sugar in the raw, sucanat, fructose, date sugar, and liquid sugars like agave nectar , maple syrup, corn syrup, molasses, brown rice syrup, barley malt syrup and even evaporated cane juice.
But cane sugar can be refined with animal bone charcoal to remove impurities and whiten the color.  It is not found in the final product , but the bones of animals are used in the processing of about half the cane sugar in the united states. Most products that contain cane sugar will actually say "cane sugar" not just "sugar".. It's up to you to decide how you feel about this , and what you want to avoid.
Also the red# in the chocolate mixes, which vegans have a concern about (squished up bugs), is made from coal tar .

Here is a list of the Duncan Hines cake mixes and frosting: (You can look all of these up on their website which lists the ingredients of each one.  http://m.duncanhines.com/products

Classic Carrot Decadent Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Butter Golden Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Classic Yellow Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Spice Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Butter Recipe Fudge Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Devil’s Food Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Fudge Marble Cake Mix-vegan
Moist Deluxe German Chocolate Cake Mix -vegan
Moist Deluxe Red Velvet Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Swiss Chocolate Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Coconut Supreme Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Lemon Supreme Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Pineapple Supreme Cake Mix – vegan
Moist Deluxe Strawberry Supreme Cake Mix - vegan
Creamy Home-Style Caramel Frosting-vegan
Creamy Home-Style Classic Chocolate Frosting-vegan
Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla Frosting-vegan
Creamy Home-Style Coconut Pecan Frosting-vegan
Creamy Home-Style Dark Chocolate Fudge Frosting-vegan
Creamy Home-Style Lemon Supreme Frosting-vegan
Creamy Home-Style Strawberry Cream Frosting-vegan
Whipped Chocolate Frosting-vegan
Whipped Fluffy White Frosting -vegan
Whipped Vanilla Frosting -vegan


These were my ingredients I used to make some super easy and super yummy cupcakes!!

  • 1 box Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
  • 1 Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla Frosting
  • 1 can of Blue Sky natural soda-Cola
  • 1 pkg Oreo cookies (Yes they are vegan!)
1. Open cake mix and pour into a mixing bowl.
2. Open can of soda and take a couple sips. Pour can of soda into bowl with cake mix.
3. Mix together (I hand mixed since I do not own a beater. Mine turned out really lumpy and still baked fine )
4. Pour into greased cake pan or greased cupcake pan. I used baking cups for cupcakes.
5. Bake accordingly to the box. ( I did the fork test and found I had to bake a little longer than intended). Do not over bake!
6. Once done baking and cooled. Add frosting to your desired amount.
7. In a separate bowl, crush a few Oreos.
8. Sprinkle on top of each cupcake.
9. Press a whole Oreo in the top of the cupcake. (Best part!)
10. Enjoy!! Yummy!



 
I brought these to my parents house and everyone loved them! They couldn't believe they were vegan! Little did they know how easy and simple it was. I could just imagine what they were thinking. That I had actually gone out and bought each ingredient and slaved away trying to come up with an intricate animal free cupcake. I'm sure they thought I used all these soy ingredients and egg replacers ;)
Although my boyfriend...a meat eater....would not touch them. His thoughts, "If it's vegan , it's automatically gross!" He has all these ideas that nothing can possibly taste good without meat or eggs etc.
After all my cup cakes were gone, I told him how I had made them. "That was it??" he replied. He then regretted eating one. His loss!


Here are a few vegan cake recipes I thought sounded delicious and would like to try someday.
(I found these all on Pinterest) To see more of some pinned recipes that look yummy:
http://pinterest.com/spritziemae/yummy-vegan-lifestyle/
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