My vegan vanilla candy potato cake is HERE!
For all who know and love my vegan chocolate candy potato cake, right here is the ‘yellow cake’ model, a vanilla candy potato cake AND vanilla candy potato frosting!
And doesn’t it look completely divine?
It is.
And as a lot as I really like the chocolate candy potato cake, I feel this yellow candy potato cake is my favourite.
It was a “must-include” recipe after I wrote Dreena’s Form Kitchen. I couldn’t launch that ebook with out together with a vanilla model of my well-known chocolate candy potato cake from Plant-Powered Households.
Vanilla Candy Potato Cake: the recipe
After I created this recipe for DKK it was vital that the cake met a couple of standards:
- it needed to “look” like a yellow (vanilla) cake
- it needed to be as scrumptious as my chocolate model (or extra!)
- it needed to provide a nut-free choice
Certainly it meets all three!
And, it wasn’t particularly simple to have this cake “look” like a yellow cake. Utilizing orange candy potato (“yam” in Canada) was out. Yellow candy potatoes are the key particular ingredient! Extra on which candy potato to make use of within the FAQ beneath.
As for deliciousness, I really like this cake! The frosting is to-live-for and the cake is extremely moist, even utilizing whole-grain flour.
Subsequent up: nut-free choice. In DKK, I actually needed to supply as many nut-free choices in recipes as attainable. I do know mothers who wrestle with what number of vegan recipes use cashews and almonds to attain that creamy, luscious consistency in recipes. On this recipe, I provide a nut-free choice for the cake, and the frosting is nut-free utilizing coconut butter.
However after I launched DKK, I obtained complaints about using coconut within the recipes. That is unlucky as a result of a lot of the recipes that use coconut are desserts, i.e. special day meals.
And, I truly assume the frosting for this cake is stellar with the coconut butter. And bear in mind, coconut butter is NOT coconut oil. It’s the entire coconut pureed into butter – identical to almonds to almond butter! However, on this submit I offers you the coconut-free choice for the frosting. That approach, hopefully everybody has a cake to swimsuit their wants: nut-free or coconut-free!
In case you are making the Vanilla Candy Potato Frosting coconut-free (ie with uncooked cashew butter), please learn the notes in my recipe (beneath). Some tweaks are wanted, so please do learn the complete recipe.
Earlier than we get to the recipe, I’ll reply some questions that provide you with this vegan yellow cake recipe:
Vegan Vanilla Candy Potato Cake: FAQ
You’ve got two choices. First, you should utilize orange candy potatoes, in the event you don’t thoughts the colour change. I do discover orange candy spuds have a bit of extra water content material (only a titch) than yellow, so possibly cut back the milk measure by 1 tbsp in each the cake and frosting.
An alternative choice is to make use of murasaki (japanase candy potatoes). Whereas hannah candy potatoes have a yellow pores and skin and underlying yellow flesh (see my video), murasaki spuds have purple pores and skin with yellow flesh. The factor with murasaki spuds, nevertheless, is that some batches discolor when cooking. You may get gray streaks within the spuds. Additionally, I discover these spuds have rather less moisture, so you could want 1-2 tbsp extra milk for the batter and frosting. If attainable, nab these hannahs!
No. If you wish to keep away from coconut, use uncooked cashew butter. However RAW. I repeat – RAW!! Roasted cashew butter is darkish in colour and likewise has a pronounced roasted/nutty taste. For the very best impartial taste use uncooked cashew butter. Uncooked almond butter has a darker colour, and macadamia nut butter is a bit of free. So simply go for the uncooked cashew butter. I really like Wilderness Poets however you may as well discover some on amazon.com and amazon.ca.
Bake/roast. For finest taste and texture. Simply pop on a parchment-lined baking sheet, don’t pierce the spuds, bake at about 400/425 for 45 minutes or till tender (will depend on dimension of spuds).
Sure. I wish to make the cake layers at some point, and the frosting the following. Then, assemble the cake that very same day or the following and let it ‘set’ in a single day.
Sure! I feel that may be magical.
Enable the candy potatoes to chill to at the least room temperature, or cook dinner upfront and refrigerate till you might be able to make this cake.
No, no. Simply the flesh. Peel away the skins and discard them or give them to your canine. 😬 Canine often love candy spud skins!
Sure. I really like – love – love vanilla bean powder. However you may substitute 1 – 1 1/2 tsp of pure vanilla extract within the frosting.
It’s not optimum. This frosting actually advantages from a high-speed blender to get a stupendous clean consistency.
I actually favor the coconut model. However, it’s as much as you! And, a mix of each could be stunning.
Lastly, you may watch me assemble the cake on youtube (and there’s nonetheless time to enter the giveaway, remark over on youtube):
Now let’s get to the recipe!
I hope you take pleasure in this Vanilla Candy Potato Cake, maybe as a lot (or extra!) than the chocolate candy potato cake.
Let me know the way you take pleasure in it – and which model of the candy potato frosting you resolve to make.
x Dreena
Vanilla Candy Potato Cake (frosting recipe follows)
With the wild reputation of my Chocolate Candy Potato Cake from Plant-Powered Households, I needed to recreate it in one other taste. This vanilla model is simply nearly as good—possibly higher! The yellow candy potato provides mellow sweetness, moisture, and a young crumb. Frosted with my dreamy Yellow Sweets Frosting it’s positively spectacular.
Makes 2 (9-inch) cake layers; serves 8
Substances
- 1 cup cooked yellow candy potato flesh cooled (see observe)
- 11/2 cups non-dairy milk
- 3 tablespoons uncooked cashew items or 2 tablespoons hemp seeds
- 11/2 teaspoons contemporary lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups spelt flour or 2 cups much less 2 tablespoons white whole-wheat flour
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unrefined sugar see observe
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 350. Flippantly wipe two 9-inch spherical cake pans with only a smidgen of coconut or different oil, then match a spherical of parchment paper on the underside of every pan. Mix the candy potato, milk, cashews, lemon juice, and vanilla extract in a blender (or in a deep cup if utilizing an immersion blender) and puree till fully clean. In a big bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt. Add the moist substances to the dry (remember to scrape out all of the blended substances with a silicone spatula). Combine till nicely included. Switch to the ready pans. Bake for 21–23 minutes, till the batter seems dry within the heart and is about to the contact. Switch to a wire rack to chill fully within the pans. Rigorously invert the pans to take away the muffins and frost as desired. Makes 2 (9-inch) cake layers; serves 8
Video
Notes
Sugar Notice: Whereas I usually use coconut sugar as a dry sweetener in recipes, right here a lighter sugar is perfect for colour. Be happy to make use of coconut sugar, and even date sugar, in the event you favor.
Vanilla Candy Potato Frosting
When blended with coconut butter (or uncooked cashew butter) and some different substances, cooked yellow candy potatoes rework right into a thick, creamy, and not-too-sweet frosting. It’s excellent on my Yellow Candy Potato Cake, and even by itself, if that’s the way you roll—I get it!
Substances
- 2 cups cooked yellow candy potato flesh cooled (see observe)
- About 1 cup coconut butter not melted (see observe) or 1 cup (little scant) uncooked cashew butter (see observe)
- 2/3 cup unrefined sugar plus extra as wanted (see observe)
- 1/2 – 2/3 cup vanilla or plain nondairy milk (ONLY for coconut model see observe for cashew butter model
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon rounded pure vanilla bean powder (elective)
Directions
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Mix the candy potato, coconut butter (beginning with 1/2 cup; see observe), sugar, milk (beginning with 1/2 cup), and sea salt in a high-speed blender (see observe). Course of till very clean, scraping down the blender as wanted. If it’s not mixing nicely, add one other 2–3 tablespoons milk to help the pureeing. Style and add 1–2 extra tablespoons sugar if desired. Add the vanilla bean powder (if utilizing) and stir with a spatula. Switch to a container and refrigerate till prepared to make use of. Or, get a spoon and dig in! Makes 3-4 cups
Notes
Coconut Butter/ Cashew Butter Notice: If utilizing coconut butter, you could wish to begin with 1/2 cup, relying on the facility of your blender. Should you begin with a full cup, it may be too sticky for the machine to puree. So start with 1/2 cup, then add 1/3 cup, after which the remaining if the pureeing goes nicely. A full cup will give a frosting that units a bit of higher. If utilizing uncooked cashew butter, you’ll NOT want a lot of the milk, possibly a few tablespoons. Use solely as a lot as have to get the combination pureed. Cashew butter will set in a different way than the coconut butter, and an excessive amount of milk will give it a pudding-like texture (which is okay for a pudding, however not a frosting).
Sugar Notice: Whereas coconut sugar or date sugar could also be preferable from a whole-foods perspective, an unrefined cane sugar works finest for colour on this recipe. When it’s a special day, simply go for it!
Blender Notice: A high-speed blender makes a world of distinction with recipes like this. Should you don’t have one, strive pureeing the coconut butter with the candy potato in a meals processor to start, then switch to a blender to completely mix.
