Easy Vegan Yellow Cake

If there’s a basic American multipurpose cake, it’s yellow cake mix. Sure, you can use a yellow cake mix from a box, but if you’re a vegan, there are limited choices and you are better off making your own from scratch. This could be your go-to yellow cake recipe—a light and fluffy vegan yellow cake recipe. 

This recipe uses vegan margarine, egg replacer, and soy milk instead of dairy and eggs. When selecting a margarine or vegan butter, make sure it is suitable for baking; some products are for spreading only. Commercial egg replacer comes in powder form and it’s available in the baking aisle of the grocery store. Of all the plant milk alternatives, soy milk is the best for baking because it has the highest protein content, which makes the case rise. Also important: the high-protein content helps the cake brown nicely. 

There are many different things you can do with a yellow cake, virtually any recipe that calls for a yellow cake mix works. Yellow cake with strawberry filling is a classic but you can also use other berries, such as blueberries, or a mix of summer berries for the filling. Many poke cakes such as strawberry poke cake or banana poke cake also use yellow cake. 

For frosting, you can simply cover the entire cake with a vanilla or chocolate frosting. Or for special occasions and children’s birthday, make it a layer cake. Double, or, for an extra tall cake, triple the recipe and bake two or three cakes, then fill them with your favorite frosting. Take your cues from any of these decorating ideas.

The possibilities of what you can do with yellow cake do not end here. Instead of using it as a cake, You can also use it in a parfait, in a trifle instead of sponge cake, or in a punch bowl cake. 

If you have any leftovers, even if they are a bit dry, yellow cake crumbs make great cake pops.