How to Bake Your Own (vegan) Wedding Cake
How’s this for a vegan wedding cake?! This Vanilla Wedding Cake (The Vegan 8) is a detailed recipe, but good for skilled bakers, or to give ideas for professional caterers. The cake is also free from gluten, nuts, oats and oil!
Before baking, read our post on food safety for people and pets.
Brandi learned to cook gluten-free vegan meals, after her husband’s doctor said there was nothing more to help her husband’s painful gout. She now writes wonderful cookbooks including The Vegan 8 (with 8 or less ingredients) and comes up with more complicated recipes like this one.
She took a lot of time and effort to make this recipe, and says not to sub even one ingredient. If you do it right, it tastes like conventional wedding cake, and also slices well. So it’s a trip to the shops to find cornstarch and white rice flour!
A Simpler Vegan Wedding Cake Recipe
This cake is not specifically for weddings, but it’s much simpler to make. Find the recipe in Freya’s wonderful book Simply Vegan Baking (she was a contestant on the Great British Bake-Off).
Ruby’s of London (luxury vegan cakes)
Ruby’s of London offers award-winning sustainable cakes in the capital city. Everything is made with natural ingredients and is free from palm oil. The cakes are super-fancy and ideal for birthdays and weddings.
Avoid chocolate/caffeine cakes for pregnancy/nursing. Keep dry ice away from children and pets, and recycle or dispose of securely. Read more on food safety for people and pets.
Ruby began her business selling homemade cakes at local markets, and became so successful, it’s now one of the most elite bakeries in London. The range includes selection boxes, cupcakes and donuts.
The company has now expanded to a branch in Tunbridge Wells, where you can visit for a vegan afternoon tea!
How to Spot Quality Vegan Ingredients
Looking for luxury vegan cakes deserves more than checking the word “vegan” on a label. Choose companies that use real quality plant-based ingredients, not refined sugar, palm oil or cheap fillers.
Another ingredient to look for is natural sweeteners. Good bakers tend to use agave syrup, maple or date syrup or coconut sugar, never white refined sugar or pet-toxic xylitol (lethal from a few dropped crumbs). And also avoid artificial sweeteners.
Choose brands that use real flavourings (real over fake vanilla etc). Anything with an E-number is not a proper artisan baker.
As a comparison, one major supermarket ‘luxury chocolate cake’ contains refined sugar, glucose syrup, palm oil, lots of unfamiliar ingredients and more palm oil. It does not even contain real chocolate, just cheap ‘fat-reduced cocoa powder’. So it’s not tasty, not healthy, packed in plastic, and also very expensive, for what it is.
Ordering and Delivery Tips
Luxury cakes are in high demand. And as skilled bakers usually make to order, give a lead time of two to four weeks, this gives bakers time to sort ingredients and accommodate special requests. List allergies or dietary needs and preferred flavours. Most cakes are sent chilled in insulated boxes.
