The Easter bunny is here with vegan lemon sponge cake and carrot cake cupcakes recipes

ADVOCATE FROM YOUR PLATE (Vegan Recipes) — This is a recipe from “35 Beautiful Vegan Easter Desserts” by Wallflower Kitchen.

This is our favorite.

Vegan Lemon Sponge Cake

Ingredients

Lemon sponge cake

360ml unsweetened almond milk
Juice of half a lemon (save other half for frosting)
Zest of 1 lemon
230g caster sugar
110ml sunflower oil
2 tsp vanilla bean paste (or extract)
250g self-raising flour
2 tbsp cornstarch
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

Lemon buttercream frosting

300g dairy-free butter (I used Vitalite)
1 tsp vanilla paste (or extract)
450g icing sugar
Juice of half a lemon

For the decoration
Dark chocolate, melted
Vegan-friendly mini eggs or chocolates

• Find out how to make it at Wallflower Kitchen »

Vegan Carrot Cake Cupcakes

If you are really into baking and experimenting with vegan recipes and have not used flax seeds yet, I invite you to try this.

I love Gretchen’s Bakery recipe because she explains so well how it works. Even I get it and I am (most of the time) an excellent cook but a only a passable baker.

Ingredients

Cupcakes

Almond Oil (or any vegetable oil of your choice) 1cup + 2 Tablespoons (260ml)
All Purpose Flour 1½ Cups (195g)
Cake Flour ¾ cup (90g)
Baking Powder 1½ teaspoons (7g)
Baking Soda 1½ teaspoons (7g)
Salt ¾ teaspoon
Ground Cinnamon 1 Tablespoon (15g)
Granulated Sugar ¾ cup (150g)
Light Brown Sugar ¾ cup (158g)
Ground Flax Seeds 8 Tablespoons (56g)
Almond Milk 12 Tablespoons (180g)
Vanilla Extract 1 Tablespoon (15ml)
Carrots Shredded from 5 medium carrots approx 2½ cups (300g)
Pecans ground fine 1½ cup
Zest of 1 Orange

Cream Cheese Icing

Vegan Cream Cheese 2 Tubs (2cups) (454g)
Earth Balance 1 stick (½ cup) (112g)
Confectioner’s Sugar 2 cups (240g)
Vanilla Extract 1 teaspoon
Butter Extract 1 teaspoon

• For instructions go here »

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Thank you for stopping by and saving lives by advocating from your plate and living vegan.

Before I go, have you heard of eggnots? They are ceramic dyeable eggs! See http://www.eggnots.com/. Too late for this year but order some and put them aside for next year.

Happy Easter from Vivian and all the gang at The Horse Fund and Tuesday’s Horse.

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From Etsy. Must see these horse ear bonnets. What a great present for the horse owner in your life (if the horse will wear them of course!).

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