Recipe: vegan strawberry-marzipan-cake

Today will see something new on this blog: a recipe. With pictures.


A friend of mine had her birthday yesterday. So I decided to bake a cake. Since many of our friends are vegans, the cake had to be vegan as well.
So here we go.

The first principle of vegan baking is "Substitution".

So we substitute margerine for butter. Now that was easy. Also it saves money.
Now, how do we substitute the eggs? You could buy some really exspensive stuff made from soy. Or you could use apple sauce like I do. We will come back to the apple sauce later.

The second principle of vegan baking is "always read the label!"
I did that beforehand while shopping, to make sure no animal-product smuggled itself into the cake.

So here comes the step-by-step manual.

First you assemble all the ingredients:

- 100 gramms of ground almonds
- 100 gramms of magerine
- 90 gramms of sugar
- 3-4 spoons full of apple-sauce
- some flour
- about half a tea-spoon full of baking powder
- about the same amount of vanilla sugar
- some chocolate flakes
- strawberries (I had to take frozen ones, since there are no fresh ones at the stores)
- marzipan
- coating chocolate
- a pinch of salt
- a CD. Take whatever you like. I used a great recording of Dvorak's cello concerto with Jaqueline Du Pré as soloist



For the first step, take the CD carefully out of its case, put it into the CD-player and press "Play"



Once the music starts, mix sugar with fat. Then add the ground almonds, baking powder, vanilla sugar and salt.



Now add the apple-sauce.



Then add enough flour to make the dough sticky instead of runny.



Put the dough into a baking dish and put it into the oven for about 45 minutes with around 180° Celsius.



While the cake bakes, blend the strawberries with the marzipan and melt the coating chocolate.
Since i could only get marzipan covered with chocolate, I had to "peel" the chocolate away. It was a bit more tedious this way, but at least I had chocolate leftovers to eat...



Once the cake has cooled out a bit, put the strawberry-marzipane mixture onto the cake.



Now add the chocolate coating.



Then let the chocolate cool out.

If you want to do a non-vegan version of this cake, you take 3 eggs instead of the apple-sauce and a bit more sugar (100 gramms).