Vegans..I found this test recipe for angel food cake that may need tweeked..?!
Vegans..I found this test recipe for angel food cake that may need tweeked..?
can someone bake it and let me know how it turns out?
Angel Food Cake (vegan) (see note below)
INGREDIENTS
1 cup self-raising flour
4 tablespoons cornflour
Pinch of salt
1 cup soft brown castor sugar
7 ounce block of tofu
1 cup soy milk
2 heaped tablespoons chickpea flour
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.
http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/301/ang...
2 months ago
I was thinking corn meal..have never seen corn flour (is that corn meal put into a blender?)...The brown sugar I was thinking was the vegetarian brown sugar crystals...even non-vegetarian sugar isn't powdered..unless you could powderize it in a blender maybe..I do like the recipe thread website that this came from...lots of interesting recipes there...
Answers:
2 months ago
I was thinking corn meal..have never seen corn flour (is that corn meal put into a blender?)...The brown sugar I was thinking was the vegetarian brown sugar crystals...even non-vegetarian sugar isn't powdered..unless you could powderize it in a blender maybe..I do like the recipe thread website that this came from...lots of interesting recipes there...
That cake needs a LOT more than tweaking to resemble an angel food cake!! I thought they'd renamed or removed it since without a minor modification it doesn't even make a cake. I've been told this is the recipe that Bryanna Grogan stole and then modified to make her recipe from but I don't know that for sure.
It doesn't make a really bad cake (not great either) but it's nowhere close to being as described! If you use corn flour (NOT cornmeal) the cake isn't gritty, and the sugar will totally dissolve! I've always wondered about the *real* source of this recipe because (I'm guessing) it seems like someone in the UK 'guessed' at a recipe and then someone else (that hadn't tried it) attempted to amerikanize. When I tried this I used soft tofu and used a whisk attachment to aerate the batter as much as possible. I also added an extra shot of baking powder to the self rising flour (it needs it!).
A better approach to the problem of a vegan angel food cake is to lighten any of the successful sponge cake recipes, I'm not going to give any more hints than that since a good answer to this problem is worth a lot of money (if the marketing problems can be solved
BTW, to the first answerer... With the correct additions (not what's listed here) it's quite possible to whip tofu into a meringue! Corn FLOUR is not gritty once cooked! You appear to be mistaking the sugar for caramel sugar! A more common name (in the US) would be powdered brown sugar which tastes of molasses. I will agree though that this particular recipe will *never* come very close to angel food cake without major modification and not just 'tweaking'.
Edit:
Corn flour can be made by whirling the meal in a blender and then sifting it since it IS just a finer grind of corn. The same thing works with sugar (although dark brown tends to become a sticky mess). A coffee grinder works better for small amounts (you can get them for under $10) , food processor for large amounts. If you don't mind going deaf
In any event this particular recipe isn't really worth trying unless (like me) there comes a day when you're bored and want to see what happens
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I am not going to try it because I don't think there is any way that it could be similar to the real thing. First of all, and mixture with tofu couldn't possibly whip up as light and fluffy as egg whites. Secondly, the addition of cornflour would make it even heavier and grittier.
And third, Brown castor sugar would certainly make the cake gritty, and with more of a burnt sugar taste.
I am sure it is not completely impossible to make a vegan Angel food cake, but if I were you, I would keep searching for other recipes.