Vegan Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- 7 cup AP flour
- 4 cup raw or demerara sugar
- 4 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp kosher salt
- 4.5 cup oat milk
- 1.3 cup canola or grapeseed oil
- 4 T apple cider vinegar
- 8 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
- In a bowl, mix all dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, mix all the wet ingredients.
- Mix wet into dry with a whisk until smooth.
- Pour into parchment lined full hotel pan.
- Bake at 350F for 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when poked.
Vegan Cake Soak Ingredients:
- 4 cups oat milk
- 1 vanilla bean
Directions:
- Scrape the vanilla pod into the milk and whisk well.
- Once the cake is cold, cut into size and soak briefly (3 seconds) on all sides without submerging the whole piece.
Citrus Buttercream Ingredients:
- 1 lb. vegan butter
- 1.5 kg icing sugar
- 2 lemons, zested
- 1 grapefruit, zested
- 1 tsp citric acid
- .5 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of kosher salt
- Oat milk to thin if needed
Directions:
- Mix with stand mixer with the paddle or electric hand blender.
- Cream the butter until it starts to get pale.
- Add sugar gradually and add oat milk if needed.
- Use tear drop piping tip and pipe width wise in lateral wavy motion and the large part of the tip on thebottom.
Three Citrus Curds Ingredients:
- 2 cups white sugar
- .75 cup cornstarch
- 4 cups of juice (orange, grapefruit and lemon)
- 2 drops of food coloring for each colour (orange, red, yellow)
- .25 cup vegan butter
- Pinch of kosher salt
- Pinch of citric acid
- .5 cup oat milk
Directions:
Follow these steps 3 times with the same method but a different juice each time
- In a medium sauce pot, mix sugar and corn starch.
- Add the rest of the ingredients, except butter and heat, until it just starts to boil and becomes thick.
- Stir very often to make sure everything gets incorporated and is a smooth consistency.
- Remove from heat and stir in butter and cool.
- Once cool, using an immersion blender of high-powered blender puree until smooth and put into piping bags with 3mm tip.
Three Fruit Pears Ingredients:
- 250g of juice (orange, grapefruit and lemon)
- 50g of simple syrup
- 2g agar agar
Directions:
Follow these steps 3 times with the same method but a different juice each time
- Ahead of time, get 1 liter of canola oil in a tall container and place in
- refrigerator. It should be cold but not solid.
- Mix and heat the fruit juice mixture to a simmer and let cool slightly.
- Place in a small tip squeeze bottle and continuously squeeze drops into the oil.
- Once the pearls are solid, strain and rinse with cold water.
- Store in the refrigerator.
Lemon Curls Ingredients:
- 10 lemons
- 4 cups sugar
- 3 cups water
Directions:
- Using a string zester, zest the lemons and soak in cold water.
- Heat the sugar and water to a boil and add zest. Simmer for 10 minutes. They should look like stained glass. Slightly opaque.
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