Help with vegan choc cake

FemmeAuFoyer · 13 June 2007 at 3:58PM

This is a recipe I found (can't remember where). I don't have SR flour so I used 6tsp baking powder instead of SR plus 3tsp. It sunk in the middle towards the end of cooking and I didn't open the oven door or anything. I've made one or two vegan cakes before for a friend and they usually sink also. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Was my substitution correct for the baking powder? Anyone got a different recipe?
Thanks

Chocolate Cake

6 oz (175g) self raising wholemeal/white flour
3 level tsp baking powder
1 oz (25g) cocoa
3½ oz (100g) Barbados sugar
4½ fl oz (125 ml) vegetable oil
11½ fl oz (325 ml) cold water

1. Preheat oven to 190ºC/375ºF/Gas 5.
2. Place all the cake ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.
3. Place mixture in greased loaf tin and bake for 30 minutes in the pre-heated oven. Cool on a wire rack.

dizzy_lizzie · 13 June 2007 at 11:08PM

FemmeAuFoyer wrote: »

This is a recipe I found (can't remember where). I don't have SR flour so I used 6tsp baking powder instead of SR plus 3tsp. It sunk in the middle towards the end of cooking and I didn't open the oven door or anything. I've made one or two vegan cakes before for a friend and they usually sink also. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Was my substitution correct for the baking powder? Anyone got a different recipe?
Thanks
Chocolate Cake

6 oz (175g) self raising wholemeal/white flour
3 level tsp baking powder
1 oz (25g) cocoa
3½ oz (100g) Barbados sugar
4½ fl oz (125 ml) vegetable oil
11½ fl oz (325 ml) cold water

1. Preheat oven to 190ºC/375ºF/Gas 5.
2. Place all the cake ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.
3. Place mixture in greased loaf tin and bake for 30 minutes in the pre-heated oven. Cool on a wire rack.

Hiya. Just Google vegan recipes and there's loads of websites that come up. Most have reviews so you can decide which one seems the best to try.
Hope that helps.

Emuchops · 14 June 2007 at 6:24AM

I have used this recipe from the excellent "Yeah that vegan Sh*t" website:
1.5 cups Plain flour, sifted
1 cup sugar
4 Tablespoons. cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon. vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon distilled white vinegar
5 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup cold water
Mix together and bake for 35 mins at 180 degrees-check out the website for more v good (US) recipes

Sharifa_2 · 14 June 2007 at 6:47AM

I made muffins on Monday that rose beautifully - 7oz plain flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder (I used a heaped one but would use slightly less next time as I could taste the 'scone-like' taste), oil, soya milk and natural soya yoghurt for the wet ingredients. It was the lemon-poppyseed muffins from 'Vegan With A Vengeance' by the woman who runs theppk.com.

jess1509_2 · 17 June 2007 at 5:08PM

to get vegan cakes to rise you need to usually add vinegar to the mix. this, combined with the baking powder and/or bicarb, creates a reaction which releases gas bubbles into the mix and helps it to rise. it also helps to keep the batter as thin as possible (ie try using maple syrup or golden syrup instead of sugar where possible).

FemmeAuFoyer · 18 June 2007 at 9:59AM

jess1509 wrote: »

to get vegan cakes to rise you need to usually add vinegar to the mix. this, combined with the baking powder and/or bicarb, creates a reaction which releases gas bubbles into the mix and helps it to rise. it also helps to keep the batter as thin as possible (ie try using maple syrup or golden syrup instead of sugar where possible).

Thanks. Is that any vinegar (can I use the white vinegar I use for cleaning?) or is there a particular vinegar to be used?

greenbee · 6 February 2009 at 6:38PM

I'm just starting to try vegan baking, and wondered if anyone had any recommendations as to the type of oil to use. I assume that it needs to have as little flavour as possible, so my extra virgin olive oil and cold-pressed rapeseed oil probably aren't much good! Would grapeseed oil work? (it's the only other unflavoured kind I've got in the house right now, and my car is under a large heap of snow!).

IamJen · 6 February 2009 at 7:51PM

How you mix the ingredients is important to the texture of the cake. I've used this recipe easily 100 times: http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=25805

However, my procedure is this: mix the dry, then make 3 wells. Pour the vinegar in one, vanilla in one, oil in the third. Pour the *cold* water over the top of all and mix together.

I swear, it's the easy cake to make and it always, always gets yummy noise from my non-vegan coworkers.

Greenbee, rapeseed oil works fine in baking. The olive oil would likely be too strong tasting.

IamJen · 6 February 2009 at 7:52PM

jess1509 wrote: »

to get vegan cakes to rise you need to usually add vinegar to the mix. this, combined with the baking powder and/or bicarb, creates a reaction which releases gas bubbles into the mix and helps it to rise. it also helps to keep the batter as thin as possible (ie try using maple syrup or golden syrup instead of sugar where possible).

While I use vinegar sometimes, most of the time I don't. The baking powder is what gets a cake to rise.

sexyjacksparrow · 6 February 2009 at 8:16PM

I always use this one
http://www.parsleysoup.co.uk/getrecipe.php?section=cakes&recipe=chocolate_cake

I'm not a great cook but this has come out faultless every time in three different ovens. It cooks in about 20 mins.

K x

VeganClaire · 10 February 2009 at 3:23PM

When making vegan cakes I find using a fan oven makes them sink.

Use normal oven if possible. Also, if I'm adapting a non-vegan recepie reducing the temperature slightly makes the cakes rise better.

Hope this helps

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