Go ahead, make a cake
Hi friends!
Hope you are staying safe, healthy, and as happy as possible. I have a suggestion: you should bake! It’s the perfect distraction, a way to think about something else for an hour or two, and at the end you’ll have something delicious to eat or share. It may seem counterintuitive to take on a big project like a beautiful cake, but it’s actually the perfect time — you need comfort and nourishment and something sweet, or you could have the opportunity to brighten the day of a friend, family member, or neighbor with a hand-to-porch delivered treat (be sure to wash your hands before thoroughly before you touch an ingredient, and before handling anything you’re dropping off).
Cakes are kind of a Tenderly specialty. For one thing, vegan baked goods taste even better than the “originals” in my humble and biased opinion. For another, cakes are something special. Our vegan cake recipes range from easy-peasy to “a bit of a project,” but they’re all achievable, incredible, and beautiful.
Alicia’s Pistachio Marzipan Cake
This special cake is vegan and delicious, and the recipe includes elements that can be reused in lots of different cake applications from marzipan to Lagusta Yearwood’s chocolate ganache.
Arabella’s Upside Down Apple Cake
This cake utilizes pantry ingredients rather than fresh produce to make a cake that’s moist, rich, sweet, and simple to assemble. If you love apple pie, try apple cake — it will blow your mind!
Sarah’s Vegan Carrot Cake with Roasted Pineapple Chips
This absolutely perfect carrot cake does not shy away from its carrotness in the slightest. Topped with roasted pineapple chips, it is simply divine.
Sara’s Chocolate Bundt Cake with Spiced Ganache
This chocolate bundt cake recipe was designed for the holidays, but there’s no reason not to have it any day of the year and evoke that warm, sweet, chocolatey, comforting winter cheer that we all need badly right now.
Laura’s Pink Frosted Applesauce Cake for ‘Little Women’
This beautifully tender vegan cake was made to evoke the food of Little Women (2019) from Marnee’s birthday cake to the famous Christmas brunch. The raspberry ermine frosting really makes it sing.
Laura’s Old-Fashioned Cheeseless Cheesecake
Despite containing no actual cheese, this cheesecake will bring diner memories flooding through your senses as it miraculously comes together as a mouth-watering classic cheesecake without any cheese element or specialty ingredients.
Sara’s Blueberry Lemon Tea Cakes
If you’re not quite ready for a full cake project, lemon and blueberry are a classic combination that come together sweetly in this little mini bundt recipe.
Eira’s MEGA-CHOCOLATE Cake
No eggs, no dairy, no problem. Adapted from a 30-year-old chocolate-focused cookbook, this fail-proof extra-chocolate cake recipe is resplendent with rich chocolate flavor.
Sara’s Adaptable Vanilla Cupcake
This is basically the only cupcake recipe you’ll ever need, and it comes with four variations in addition to the classic vanilla: sugar-free, strawberry, jam-filled, and mud chocolate. Take it back to 2007~ and enjoy a cupcake or five!
Alicia’s One-Layer Pumpkin Cake
This elegant pumpkin cake for adults doesn’t need fancy assembly — one layer is more than enough. You’ll need pumpkin puree, but the ingredients list is super pantry-friendly. Enjoy!
Enjoy your cake of choice and if you want, snap a pic and tag us on Instagram. We’ll share your cake achievements with the world!
XOXO cake fiends,
Summer Anne Burton / Editor-in-Chief of Tenderly
