I'm baking the infamous strawberry cake.

[gretchenindisguise]

And it smells amazing. I'm really really hopeful it'll turn out amazing, converting to vegan can go haywire sometimes. 

[zoidberg]

What is the recipe?

If it is anything like those pineapple upside down cupcakes I will take 10.

[gretchenindisguise]

Stellas posted the recipe the other day.

smittenkitchen.com/blog/2011/05/strawberry-summer-cake/

[zoidberg]

Oh yum, that looks great.

[sparrow]

Pretty much everything on the smittenkitchen website is delicious!

[bania]

Thanks for reminding me, I saved this the other day! I just happened to buy strawberries over the weekend!

I hope yours turns out great! Let us know.

[gozf]

Jul 4, 2013 15:36:15 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

So this is a good cake to try? H just brought home a pound of strawberries.

Do it. It's seriously so easy and so delicious. I get so many requests for it at summer parties. No one seems to get sick of it. I'm certainly not sick of it!

[gozf]

Jul 4, 2013 15:36:15 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

So this is a good cake to try? H just brought home a pound of strawberries.

Do it. It's seriously so easy and so delicious. I get so many requests for it at summer parties. No one seems to get sick of it. I'm certainly not sick of it!

[juliagoulia]

That looks so good!

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yeah, I'm gonna be THAT person. Will it work with a mixture of blackberries and raspberries? That's what I have on hand.

[snorky]

Do you mind sharing how you converted it to vegan? I tried the actual recipe and it was delicious and I want to eat it everyday for the rest of my life, but I try to abstain from eating dairy during the week and do it sparingly in weekends.

[snorky]

Jul 4, 2013 17:18:58 GMT -5 @damnation said:

yeah, I'm gonna be THAT person. Will it work with a mixture of blackberries and raspberries? That's what I have on hand.

I think that it would work fine with other berries. Peaches seem like they would be great, too.

[vicky]

Jul 4, 2013 17:18:58 GMT -5 @damnation said:

yeah, I'm gonna be THAT person. Will it work with a mixture of blackberries and raspberries? That's what I have on hand.

I made it with blueberries, it was terrific!

[5hole]

I made this today and it was delicious and really, really easy!

[cbwm1]

Made it, ate a slice, in heaven. SO good.

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 4, 2013 17:27:44 GMT -5 snorky said:

Do you mind sharing how you converted it to vegan? I tried the actual recipe and it was delicious and I want to eat it everyday for the rest of my life, but I try to abstain from eating dairy during the week and do it sparingly in weekends.

If you're just cutting out dairy: substitute the butter for earth balance margarine (I use the sticks when baking just for ease of measuring), replace the milk with whatever non dairy milk you feel like using (soy, almond, or rice) and you should be good to go. My vegan cupcake takes over the world book always has you add 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar to the milk and let it curdle before you add it to the batter - so I did that for this cake too (but with 1/2 tsp acv since it was only 1/2 cup of milk) - the cake tasted good but I don't know if this is a necessary step.

If you want to replace the egg as well - I used Ener-G egg replacement in this cake and it worked out great.

Such a good cake. I had two slices tonight. 

[midnightrae]

You got my hopes up that it was written as vegan. I'm tired of subbing stuff. It usually doesn't taste the same. That being said, I still might give it a try and sub stuff to make it vegan.

[aMrsin09]

Can it be made with frozen strawberries?

Fresh ones are too $$$ down here to use for baking.

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 5, 2013 0:18:30 GMT -5 midnightrae said:

You got my hopes up that it was written as vegan. I'm tired of subbing stuff. It usually doesn't taste the same. That being said, I still might give it a try and sub stuff to make it vegan.

Nope, not written as vegan but still quite yummy.

I guess it might taste a smidgen different just because it is different ingredients but different isn't bad. It's quite awesome as I made it, tyvm. And no one would have known it was vegan if I hadn't told them.

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I think frozen strawberries would only work if you thawed them first. It wouldn't be as pretty, but it would probably taste about the same.

[5hole]

Jul 5, 2013 8:50:58 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Jul 5, 2013 0:18:30 GMT -5 midnightrae said:

You got my hopes up that it was written as vegan. I'm tired of subbing stuff. It usually doesn't taste the same. That being said, I still might give it a try and sub stuff to make it vegan.

Nope, not written as vegan but still quite yummy.

I guess it might taste a smidgen different just because it is different ingredients but different isn't bad. It's quite awesome as I made it, tyvm. And no one would have known it was vegan if I hadn't told them.

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I did the same with earth balance and soy milk and it was still delicious! I love being able to easily sub stuff out and still make "regular" recipes. I guess I'm just used to it, though.