Vanilla & Peanut Butter Kid’s Cake-Vegan
Vanilla & Peanut Butter Kid’s Cake-Vegan is insanely easy and delicious. Personally, I am not a dessert person, as I am sure you can tell by the serious lack of desserts I have on this blog. For Father’s Day, we made a cake for my boyfriend. We used this recipe and it was awesome! We made a coconut whipped frosting and used white flour. For this particular cake, we used whole wheat flour (quite a different taste FYI) and homemade peanut butter for the frosting. Honestly, they were amazing. The cake is fluffy and moist… aaaannnd, there is no egg replacer! Every ingredient is a pantry staple.
Greyson (my kiddo) wanted to make homemade peanut butter about 2 months ago. We’ve been making our own ever since. Literally all you have to do is blend peanuts in a high-powered blender – no added ingredients. I use my Vitamix and a 365 brand bag of roasted & salted peanuts. It looks dry when you first blend, but the oils quickly release and it becomes creamy and delicious in seconds. We used this for our frosting, as per Grey’s request. I was opposed at first; however, it was delish!
I was having my weekly Wednesday “Cobras” happy hour (just another reason why COVID has improved my life – trying to look at the bright side, people) on Zoom the other day and I was talking about my Vitamix and my Dyson. I’d decided that if I could choose 2 inanimate objects to be my best friends, it would be my Vitamix and my Dyson. I use them daily. My Dyson gets used at least 3 times/day. Yeah, I’m a clean freak but I ALSO have a 5 YO – enough said. I am a walking advertisement for these two products. 😉 Actually, I recently published an article in “The Haven” about COVID and how my inanimate objects are becoming my best friends. You can find it here:
https://medium.com/the-haven/dear-diary-im-officially-over-it-8ab5db75a765?source=friends_link&sk=c71ae00d2d22c69f499dc522627e4548
(my links aren’t embedding at the moment – just one of the many annoyances on the blog right now)
Anyway, if you have kiddos, Vanilla & Peanut Butter Kid’s Cake-Vegan, is so fun to make together, super easy and delish, and of course, it’s always awesome to instill a love and understanding for cooking at a young age!
PS- I decorated it to say “G ‘heart’ in'” – meaning “G-Lovin'” – and then some other easy designs.
For your cooking and musical pleasure…
Vanilla & Peanut Butter Kid’s Cake-Vegan
Ingredients-
1 3/4 C flour – white or wheat (just know they’ll taste very different – we used wheat)
1 C white Sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp baking soda
3 tsp vanilla extract
1 C non-dairy milk (I used oat milk)
1/3 C vegetable oil (could sub for canola, too)
1 Tbl white vinegar
Frosting- Creamy peanut butter
Directions–
Preheat oven to 350°F
Mix the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt together
Add non-dairy milk, vanilla, oil, and vinegar – whisk together
Grease an 8″ round pan and pour the batter
Bake for 30 minutes
Remove from pan. Allow cake to cool for at least 15 minutes and then spread peanut evenly on top of cake. Feel free to decorate!
