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Angel Food Cake

Cakes - Plain - -

INGREDIENTS

4 ounces / 1 cup self-raising flour
2 ounces / 4 tablespoons cornflour
Pinch of salt
8 ounces / 1 cup soft brown castor sugar
1 x 200 gram / 7 ounce block of tofu
8 fluid ounces / 1 cup soy milk
2 heaped tablespoons chickpea flour
4 fluid ounces / 1/2 cup oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

METHOD

Place the tofu, sugar, gram flour, oil, vanilla and lemon juice into a blender and blend well. Add the soya milk gradually.

Transfer to a large bowl and fold in the flour.

Spoon into a greased 9 inch / 23 centimeter cake tin (the sort with a detachable bases and loosenable side is best) and bake for 45 mins at gas mark 4 / 180C / 350F until golden and firm to the touch. Cool in the tin.

NOTES

Please note that I have not attempted this recipe so it will almost certainly need tweaking.

According to my cake encyclopedia, angel food cake is a sponge cake with a lot of cornflour in it and hardly any flour. It also contains lots of eggs (10, in my recipe!), a little lemon juice and vanilla.

As the egg content in this cake is so preposterously high, veganising this cake will be difficult. Simply substituting oil for the egg will not work.

If I was going to make it, I would try the above.

posted by Ronny/Capybara Cake

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[Reply] - [link] - Needs work - [lmaybe] - 2006/08/11 - 16:16

Did not work at all, this will need more work than I can give.

[Reply] - [link] - Disaster - [mincus] - 2006/09/27 - 15:00

I've tried this multiple times and can never get it to work.

I'm tempted to just remove it from the site, but so many people have linked to it and view this recipe I was hoping that we could get some suggestions on how to make it at least closer to the real thing.