Beginners Vegan Birthday Cake Recipes

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Beginners recipes for Vegan Birthday Cakes! Are you Double Chocolate? Or Double Vanilla? Either way it's never been easier! With 2 simple recipes! One bowl mixes for the cake batter with American Buttercream icing! CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE HERE www.gretchensveganbakery.com/vegan-chocolate-birthday-cake/ VANILLA CAKE RECIPE HERE www.gretchensveganbakery.com/vegan-vanilla-birthday-cake/

[@ElenaBrandtNJ]

Vanilla 100% You are so talented and creative. It’s amazing to watch your channel grow over the years!

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@MarcyMMM]

Vanilla all the way! cannot always get a great vegan vanilla flavored things so when they’re good, they’re great!!🎉🎂🍰🧁

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Pro Tip:: vanilla flavored plant milk m Enhances the vanilla flavor in the cake!! Its like a freebie bonus!

[@emmasgoodies]

These look so pretty Gretchen!! I say Team BOTH!! I just can't choose one! 😍🤣

[@Asterite100]

Your modern video style has a lot finesse to it so seeing these classic recipes brought into 2023 and consolidated just feels right. I prefer chocolate over plain vanilla for pretty much anything but I've actually made your standard-vanilla and yellow cakes before a long while ago and they definitely hit the spot - even without any frosting (these were back before my appliance days).

[@sunshineday3668]

Delicious!!!

[@cakeinthenight5749]

Oh snap, I was just asking my sister what she wanted for her birthday cake and she said just a classic chocolate birthday cake so I said I'd look up one of your recipes, and I see you've uploaded this! Thanks!

[@kellyoconnor1035]

Chocolate! I love chocolate 😊. Such fun , happy cakes!! Thank you Gretchen for telling us the brands you use! It is such a help. You are a wonderful teacher! ❤❤

[@theauthenticnut2.0]

Team Vanilla!!

[@patriciaobrien3134]

Gretchen these cakes looks delicious thanks for all your hard work,and sharing all these beautiful recipes greetings from dublin ireland Patricia obrien 🇮🇪

[@slvrcross]

Beautiful work Gretchen, your creativity is unmatched! 🍰💕🍰

[@slvrcross]

#TeamChocolate fyi 😝

[@bellalibu]

This is AMAZING! My birthday is coming up and I really want to make my own custom cake and I just found the perfect vegan vanilla cake! Thank you Gretchen for sharing your incredible recipes with the vegan community! xo

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

🎉 YAY! Happy Birthday!

[@bellalibu]

@@GretchensVeganBakery OMG thank you so much Queen! 😍❤️

[@debbylev]

Your cakes always look like a dream!! Amazing! Thank you!

[@RiaLake]

The cakes are both wonderfully tempting, but I think I'll choose the chocolate cake to make for my birthday and the vanilla one for a trial run and use vanilla soya milk. I appreciate the seeming ease of these recipes. Thank you. 💮🌻

[@jamesormsby9064]

thank you Gretchen,I made the vanilla cake with the American buttercream , I used vanilla soy creamer instead of vanilla soy milk, I put a little egg replacer in too, baked 3 8 inch rounds ,7 inch round cake pans are hard to find ,8 inch pans worked fine. i used the aluminum disposable ones, I used all earth balance soy free sticks for the buttercream. and extra vanilla, came out perfect and the crowd raved, thanks for this easy recipe look forward to trying your others when I need a vegan cake, wish i could post a picture of it

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback the cake sounds amazing! Great job!

[@laurag1024]

I'm a total total beginner, I have searched throughout your whole list of videos from back six years ago but I really wish they were divided from beginners, intermediate and advanced, I'll do my best to honor your recipes.

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

That’s a good idea! Ill see about making additional playlists (does anyone use playlists really?)

[@laurag1024]

@@GretchensVeganBakery That would be fantastic! For cooking a playlist would be like the way for people to level up, or even like a to do list based on the experience people have in baking.

[@peonyrose9435]

Both look delicious

[@daniellebrown9437]

❤❤❤ thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@Kelseyveg]

Vanilla definitely but once in a while I have a huge chocolate cake craving!

[@MultiGemgirl]

definitely team chocolate, no wait maybe team vanilla. You know what, I can't choose.

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

2layers vanilla , 1 layer chocolate with chocolate icing

[@MaxineSimpson]

I don't understand the sifting part. Do we sift before we measure the ingredients or after? Doesn't sifting change the volume? I'm here to learn from one of the best bakers on KZbin. TY

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Good question and yes, you are correct. When you are using cups measure, you will almost always get a different result, which is why I always recommend to weigh your ingredients with a scale sifted or not sifted air does not weigh anything so it won’t change the weight measure. But you are correct it would change the cups volume measure every time!! That said, for people who still won’t use the scale I recommend the fluffing and scooping method for measuring volume/cups this means fluffing up your bag/bowl flour & scooping it in.

[@NickNCC-kr8ug]

FIRST! Love the cake!

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

YAY! winner winner!

[@Bascobits]

Chocolate off course!

[@martian10712]

Perfect timing! I just committed to baking my mother’s birthday cake for next weekend. 😂❤️ BTW, she and I are chocolate on chocolate on chocolate all the way. 😍 Hope you’re having a great summer. Still here and sending much love from Washington state ❤️❤️❤️

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Great!! & thank you 😊

[@FridayFrida]

Wow, those look soo good I’m definitely trying both!!! Though I’m a chocolate gal. 🎉

[@guerra6890]

I like chocolate cake with vanilla icing 😊

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Good idea!! The best of both!

[@triptripp1873]

I say chocolate cake, with vanilla buttercream. Best of both worlds.

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Good idea

[@julietteyork6293]

Excited to find your channel. Per your bio, what’s a CIA-trained pastry chef?

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Thank you!! (Culinary Institute of America) 😄

[@julietteyork6293]

@@GretchensVeganBakery Oh, I thought it was the Central Intelligence Agency. 😆 I’m so red-pilled.

[@Asterite100]

@@julietteyork6293 LMAO the thought of her infiltrating the CIA

[@julietteyork6293]

@@Asterite100 Hahahaha

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

😆it’s a common misconception 🥸

[@julietteyork6293]

You may have addressed this in a previous video but as a new subscriber I’m curious to know how long you’ve been vegan and whether your initial motivation was ethical or health related. I’m enjoying your scrumptious videos.

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Thank you!! Im definitely an ethical vegan, i actually have a bio on my website explaining “my story” It’s probably a 5 minute read www.gretchensveganbakery.com/went-vegan-story/

[@julietteyork6293]

@@GretchensVeganBakery Just read it. Well done. Every word resonated with me because my own journey was similar. I do grapple with a few questions, which I wonder how you and/or others reconcile: 1. What to feed our pet cats? 2. I have friends who live on a farm with egg laying chickens. The chickens aren’t kept in cages, are free to roam, and appear to be living happy lives. Would you have a problem with eating eggs under those conditions? 3. Given that we vegans are pro animal life, shouldn’t that extend to being pro human life too? Most of my fellow vegans are pro-abortion, even later term abortion, which seems like a disturbing disconnect to me. Thanks for your thoughts!

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Yes all good questions! I also think the same with my cats, as we (*the figurative"we" for 1000's of years) have domesticated pets to the point they don't have to fend for themselves anymore in a natural setting. I have only recently come to the understanding of why many staunch vegans say "no pets!" I used to not understand that at all, and now I do get it , but I am still not willing to adhere. I have never bought my pets and the 5 I have now I've taken in from dire situations and will always do so when it comes to that. The pet food thing though, yeah~ I know..... I've also only recently come to understand the backyard chicken argument too. I never really thought too much about it, since going vegan and while I was an avid egg eater in my past life (LOL) once I connected the "chicken menstrual period" reality in conjunction with not having eaten an egg in almost 8 years, I have no desire to eat eggs at this point no matter how happy the chickens are to give up their eggs. But I think what I have come to understand about the backyard chicken conundrum is that it all comes down to using these animals as commodity. So the chicken breeding business stays in business if the backyard chicken demand is there. And the cycle continues. The factory farmed cows/pigs/chickens etc ... all stay in business if the demand is there. And the cycle continues. No different than the pet store stays in business if the demand for bred dogs & cats for pets is there. Last I believe that everyone here is on levels. Levels of learning and levels of NOT learning haha, in which case we get to come back and do it again until we "get it" What I know now, I did not know 10 years ago or even 10 days ago in some cases. It's been a slow process of opening my heart and unlearning everything I was taught as "normal and tradition" and listening to my heart. When I went vegan and realized the value of life through the animals that I hold so dear, and even such a small life as an ant! I then became a kinder person to humans. I am a firm believer that you cannot speak of peace while you have death on your plate. I also believe that life begins at conception, so yes that certainly is a disturbing disconnect. Again.... levels of thought and awakening. I can't say I would have said the same answer myself 20 years ago? Bottom line though, In my opinion it all has to start with looking deep inside ourselves and getting clear on our own trauma first~ that has gotten us to where we are right now, bogus belief systems that have been instilled into us about how we feel about ourselves and the world in general, and then getting in touch with the one truth of this reality and that is without a doubt Nothing more or less than LOVE. There are so many hurt people walking around that it all seems overwhelming at times to even look at let alone be a part of, but I know that Love trumps all and when you can truly operate from that place that is all you are here to do. I am still working on that every single day believe me, in a world that is designed to make us all hate~~ the challenge is real. xx

[@julietteyork6293]

@@GretchensVeganBakery Well said and a coincidence* because earlier today, even before I saw your reply, I was thinking that nearly everyone is broken, to one degree or another, thereby complicating and negatively impacting everything in our world. *I’m less inclined to see synchronicities as coincidence than God’s way of speaking to us.

[@chalyndajackson9384]

Vanilla for me😋

[@aishabunch5352]

i just ordered your book on amazon .

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

aweee thank you!

[@brooklyndiva23]

I’m just team CAKE! Don’t make me choose😰 You’re “OMG… how dare you (insert sarcasm from the haters) NEVER gets old…. I laugh each and every time 😂😂😂

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

😆

[@mahletdawit8783]

Chocolate batter with vanilla frosting

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Oooh yes!

[@gandalfthepink2727]

I love chocolate cake. I'm getting older now so I've been using carob instead. I can digest that better. And I think I'm doing something wrong with the vanilla cake. I'm using walmarts brand of soy milk and the cake never smells right 😭 I'm going to try another brand this week though.

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Hmm interesting. I use SILK & if you use the vanilla one it really makes a big difference In vanilla taste!!

[@gandalfthepink2727]

@GretchensVeganBakery oh sweet! Thank you. I'll go grab that tomorrow.

[@FunHouseTV]

Vanilla for me...

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

I knew that 🥸

[@bonnieharada8676]

Gretchen I have all that link and search through your website when it comes up for a recipe ingredients there’s a link and when I click on that link, it comes up with the yellow cake. I cannot get to the specific ingredients and measurements for the vanilla layer birthday cake not to the link you sent not through your websiteplease help

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Hi Bonnie this recipe is for Yellow Cake (Which is indeed a vanilla cake, It’s just called bakery yellow cake) I have another recipe here for the original vanilla cake if you want that one instead www.gretchensveganbakery.com/vegan-vanilla-cake-recipe/

[@karankhanolkar4108]

Gretchen can you make entrmets again! I loved you dome entrmets and I want new ones 😭

[@karankhanolkar4108]

Great video as always!

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Yes i plan to get into some more of the classic advanced pastry soon

[@Dolcevita_bakes]

So I’ve been using country crock lately as I haven’t decided what I like better if it’s the country crock one or the Earth balance? I want to say the Earth balance butter has more salt in it not sure though? Either way, though, regardless of which kind I use I always add a stick of Crisco shortening and it seems to always whip up really nice and fluffy very white and I’m not having complaints from anybody. What do you think about adding the shortening to the butter?

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Yes Earth Balance can be salty so I often leave out (or adjust the salt) I almost never add shortening to my buttercreams anymore. If I do (or rather when i DID) It would be sweetex brand. Which is hard to come by for home bakers since it is a commercial brand sold in 50lb cubes. But as long as it is HiRatio it is going to be better for icings. Crisco (*in my opinion) will leave a heavy greasy mouth feel, but hey~ If YOU love it! by all means! :)

[@kateburk2168]

Yes! Yes, Chocolate. Yes, Vanilla. Not really that picky.😊

[@pixelated.peachyangel]

Team chocolate🍫

[@shameelahlingard7559]

Team Vanilla

[@hockeymomlawton]

Team chocolate!

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

🍫🍫🍫

[@marinaj7877]

Team chocalat 😍

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

🍫🍫🍫

[@gaile2241]

Definitely Chocolate

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

🍫🍫🍫

[@peggiezamiaty7413]

Gretchen I thoroughly enjoyed watching you before you changed to vegan. is it possible for you to also give the non vegan ingredients so us veteran fans can enjoy your delicious recipes again?

[@sandracarli1110]

Drip cakes always remind me of candles. 😅

[@aishabunch5352]

vanila

[@Skoben2000]

I've heard of Sponge Pudding which is made from cake scraps or left over cakes. I would imagine that the scraps that you cut off and save could be made into a Sponge Pudding!? Eh Hem....HInt hint! How would Gretchen make a vegan Sponge pudding? I foresee a new video now. LOL :-P

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

Sounds like a trifle right?

[@Skoben2000]

​@@GretchensVeganBakery Well, I'm not sure. Could be but if not; then now you have TWO videos to make. LOL :P I'll try to describe what I saw (in rough description) and as many of the ingredients that I can remember. Maybe you'll be able to make more sense of it and know what I'm talking about or what more needs to be done. I know just enought ot get it all wrong. LOL Here are some of the ingredients that I can remember: Chocolate Sponge Pudding -Cake scraps -Semi-sweet chocolate -vanilla -"Butter" -"Milk" -"Eggs" -"Heavy Cream" - (to serve) The Sponge cake was put into dariole molds and baked in a steam bath. But I'm sure it can be made in one big bowl or baking dish or whatever. This one I saw was served with a drizzle of chocolate sauce over top To continue, I was so fascinated and my friend told me you can take Sponge Pudding in all kinds of directions. She said she's made Lemon Sponge pudding with lemon curd on top, Date sponge pudding with a date syrup glaze on top, Raspberry Sponge pudding with Raspberry Coulis on top. Strawberry sponge pudding... So it sounds like someone is only limited by their imagination when making them. So with my horrible description, Good luck! LOL :P

[@Skoben2000]

Okay, it was bothering me that I couldn't be more helpful in my description, so I turned to ChatGPT and had it create a recipe for me to help out my description. Chat GPT never fails. Here's what "Ol' Faithful" came up with. I'm sure it can be veganized with non-dairy milk, "Chia/Flax eggs" or tofu as the egg and vegan butter. However, It created what I couldn't and here we go: "Your description of ingredients sounds like a great way to repurpose cake scraps or uneaten cake to create a new decadent desert. Let's create a Chocolate Sponge Pudding with your given ingredients. Chocolate Sponge Pudding Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups cake scraps or leftover cake, crumbled 200g semi-sweet chocolate, chopped 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter 1 cup milk 3 large eggs Heavy cream (for serving) Instructions: Preheat the Oven: Preheat your oven to 325°F (160°C). Grease a baking dish or individual ramekins for baking the pudding. Prepare Cake Scraps: If your cake scraps are not already crumbled, break them into small pieces and set aside. Create Chocolate Mixture: In a heatproof bowl, combine the chopped chocolate, butter, and milk. Melt the mixture over a double boiler or in the microwave, stirring until smooth. Allow the chocolate mixture to cool slightly. Combine Ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and vanilla extract together. Gradually add the melted chocolate mixture to the eggs, whisking continuously to avoid curdling. Add Cake Scraps: Gently fold in the crumbled cake scraps into the chocolate and egg mixture until well combined. Prepare Water Bath: Place your baking dish or ramekins into a larger baking pan. Pour hot water into the larger pan, creating a water bath around the pudding dish. The water level should be about halfway up the sides of the pudding dish. Bake: Pour the combined mixture into the prepared baking dish or ramekins. Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 40-45 minutes or until the pudding is set. The top should be firm, and a toothpick inserted into the center should come out with moist crumbs. Serve: Allow the pudding to cool slightly before serving. Serve warm with a drizzle of heavy cream on top. This Chocolate Sponge Pudding is a delightful way to use leftover cake scraps, creating a rich and indulgent dessert. Enjoy!" I think it meant to make whipped cream and I forgot to tell ChatGPT to make a chocolate sauce to drizzle on top of each serving. All in all, I think this is what I was trying to explain.

[@olgaskold6213]

I am team cake 😂

[@Aviluv]

My two year daughter said “Both” 😂

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

She's smart!

[@trendylionesscouture340]

🥰❤️💛💚🇻🇮

[@scienceislove2014]

I'm team fruit cake

[@mylifeinschrampbells9604]

I’m allergic to chocolate so it’s vanilla for me.

[@galitjustme695]

Vanilla! Chocolate cakes feel awfully bitter to me. I don’t understand how people enjoy them.

[@GretchensVeganBakery]

😀🍫

[@peonyrose9435]

Both look delicious