Serves: 12 approximately
Preparation: 20 mins
Type: Vegan, Vegetarian, Halal, Kosher pareve passover.
Cooking time: 45 mins
Ingredients: 6 tbsp potato starch, 175g self raising flour, 175g vegetable margarine, 175g white vegan sugar, ¾ cup water/soya milk, 2-3 tbsp jam, Extra margarine and flour for greasing.
Many thanks to Ms N Fisher for her help with this video.
Pretty amazing cake, considering it’s vegan!
Serves: 8
Preparation Time: 15 minutes approx
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
* 275g/10 oz/2 cups self raising flour use white for a lighter cake
* 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda
* 225g/8 oz/1 cup caster sugar
* 200ml/8 fl oz/1 cup sunflower oil
* 150ml/5 fl oz/generous ½ cup orange juice
* 150ml/5 fl oz/generous ½ cup water
* 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
* fruit jam your favourite about 4 tablespoons
* 1 carton Granovita vegan cream whipped
Method
* Preheat the oven 160/325/gas 3 Grease and line base of 2 cake tins (see above) with non stick baking parchment.
* Sift the dry ingredients into bowl.
* Into a second bowl whisk all the liquids together and then pour into the dry ingredients and beat well to make a smooth mixture.
* Pour into tins equal amounts and place in oven. Cook for approx 30 mins.
* Leave cake to cool in tins and then turn out onto a cooling rack.
* Peel off base paper and leave to cool completely.
* Sandwich together with jam and cream.
* Sift a little icing sugar on top.
* Recipe by Sue Daniels
Vege Island
the song from kal ho na ho is sooooo beautiful….sponge cake is beautiful and looks really good
That’s interesting. I’m hoping to start making cakes other than chocolate and this recipe looks very good.
Love the background music (Kal Ho Naa Ho) and thank you for this recipe and the one for the Shepherds pie…yum!!
Nice looking cakes, can you tell me if they’re really moist and spongey, or more of a basic white cake?
Well with water it might be a little less “creamy”, also the proteins in soya MIGHT help the binding process of the cake… But yes any starch would be fine..
In USA, some sugar is considered non-Vegan as it is filtered through bone-char, so written like that is for the benefit of USA viewers and to make people aware of the issue.
Any starch would probably work fine as a binder..
I just made this cake 2 hours ago! It just cooled, and I had a slice! It is delicious! I changed it slightly, by replacing some of the flour with cocoa powder, and instead of cornstarch, I used mashed tofu.
haha, i’ve heard that song before from kal ho naa ho. by the way nice recipe, im gonna try it
Hi there, what is the difference between white vegan sugar and normal sugar? Also does corn flour/maize starch have the same ability to hold same amount of liquid as the potato starch?
Will there be a big difference If water is used instead of soymilk? Can I use corn starch instead of potato starch? Great video! Love the recipe.
In the same way a cake with egg doesn’t smell of egg, a cake made with potato starch doesn’t. The potato starch is needed to bind the cake together, if you’d rather not use it, make sure you use a suitable alternative.
It’s been tried and tested on non-vegans, they can’t tell the difference.
And finally… yes, the music is from Kal Ho Naa Ho.
mmmm i’m a bit uncomfortable in making sponge cake with “potato starch” ………. never knew that was possible ……… !!!
so, does the cake smell like potato or something …. or taste like it? …. does it turn out spongy like normal cakes? …. mmmm please clear my doubts
thanks ..
and btw, isn’t that background music an instrumental from an indian movie?
we use the same measuring cups!
=DD
Heaven! It’s at times like this that I wish I had a bigger oven.
Beautifully done! Now to go and convert the grams to cups!
NICE music too, btw!
so you’re saying is you don’t need any fancy tools to make a cake…
I’m not a vegan but i dont like when a cake smells or taste like eggs plus im looking for a perfectly white sponge cake to make for a wedding anniversary, the yellow given by eggs doesnt match with the colours of icing im going to use. Do you think i can make this cake using regular milk and butter instead of soy milk and margarine???Let me know so i can try
it seems a really good recipe
Excellent, i will be trying this out soon. I am vegan and have been dieing to try out a vegan victoria sponge cake!
Cake recipes are the specialty of my best friend, my favorite ones are those exotic fruit cakes:~:
i love to eat cakes and bake them too that is why i am always on the lookout for cake recipes,*-
i love to munch cakes and i bake receipes based on different cake recipes that i can find on the net,:.
Probably, well i have no idea what its called, but it was like this gunkish stuff rapped in a grape leave. It was a project of someones and they passed it around for people to try, and yea i tried it, It was sooooo grossss.
the cake recipes on the internet are all very delicious and i want to try and bake all of them *