I had my birthday last week and, with a friend of mine, I made a cake that I think was quite awesome. It's the carrot cake from Vegan with a Vengeance.
The recipe is online here.
I used walnuts instead of macademias and made an icing out of coconut milk, coconut and icing sugar. We spread the icing on the top and bottom layer and then sprinkled some coconut over the cake.
It was really tasty and I would definitely recommend it as a birthday cake. It's easy to cut and work with. Also, ginger! It tastes like laundry detergent on its own, but like condensed goodness in this cake.
I got some good presents, including this awesome Green & Black's chocolate egg.
In the end, I only really had one slice of my own cake (friends and family devoured the rest pretty quickly), but it was gooood.
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Ginger Walnut Coconut Carrot Birthday Cake
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That's such a gorgeous cake!
I am tagging you (it's one of those survey things--once these things start they spiral out of control!). See my blog for details.
Thanks, romina! I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm normally better at savoury things.
Vegan Dad - cool, thanks!
love it~!
Happy (belated, sorry) birthday, Coppe! :D That cake looks awesome, no wonder everyone loved it.
The egg is so pretty! I didn't know there were Maya Gold eggs, too. I love that flavour.
Oh, to Adele, I hope you read this: you commented on my last post asking whether I thought that the speculaas dough would go well with chocolate. Personally I don't love that combination. Then again, they sell 'kruidnoten' coated in chocolate, and those are basically speculaas too, so I guess some people like it :) and thanks for your comment! I wonder why you don't like eating tarts...
happy herbivore - thanks!
bonnie - thank you. I'll make sure Adele gets it. I used to love those chocolate-coated pepernoten. I should make those at some point.
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