Vegan Wedding Cake Anyone?

Vegan wedding cake can be hard to come by… Often bakers simply don't know how to make a cake without butter, eggs and milk.

Here are a couple of tips:

If you are not able to find a baker with vegan cake experience, perhaps you could work with a professional willing to use a favorite recipe that you provide. It’s not usually as simple as substituting ingredients such as soy, flaxseed and applesauce in a recipe that calls for dairy products… Vegetarian cookbooks are a good resource for vegan chocolate or white cake recipes. Other possibilities include vegan carrot cakes or tofu-based cakes like tofu cheesecakes –but keep in mind that there are common allergies to items such as nuts and flaxseed, so consider your guests dietary needs as well!

Ultimately, you could also elect to take matters into your own hands, literally. It may save you money to go this route, but it is ambitious to say the least. Baking, layering and decorating a cake takes a lot of time, not to mention skill. It is labor intensive and is not something that can be done way in advance of the wedding date! Consider asking your most talented and generous aunts/grandmothers/cousins/friends to share in a cooking project the morning of or day before your wedding- give them a tried and true vegan recipe, and ask them to make cup cakes! If you are craving your own DIY project, consider making the cupcake display element yourself- using slabs of wood and embellishing with ribbon, or decorating porcelain stands…

Or forgo the cake and serve a vegan dessert buffet- Make a fruit or favor tower that gives the effect of a cake, as a design element, and feed each other chocolate covered strawberries, peanut butter brownies, truffles or an elegant sorbet at the “cut the cake” moment!