Vegan Lemon Lime Cake with Icing

Step 1: Ingredients

For the cake:

2 large Lemons (or limes)
2 tbsp Lime Peel (2 or 3 limes)
1 1/2 cup flour (you can use whole wheat)
1 cup Sugar (I used Turbinado, but use whatever you have on hand)
1 tsp Baking Soda
5 tbsp Oil (I used Canola)
1 tsp Vinegar
1 tsp Vanilla
3/4 cup Water


For the Icing:

2 tbsp Lemon or Lime Juice
3/4 cup Confectioners Sugar

Comments

[scoochmaroo]

To keep this recipe vegan, the kind of sugar you use is important.

Refined sugars do not contain any animal products, and so by an ingredients-based definition of vegan, refined sugar is vegan.

However, some refined sugar is processed with animal bone char. The charcoal is used to remove color, impurities, and minerals from sugar. The charcoal is not 'in' the sugar, but is used in the process as as a filter.

Thus by a process-based definition of vegan, refined sugar may not be considered vegan.

I figure since there are so many alternatives available these days, there's really no reason to take the risk when cooking vegan foods.

[ShopCookMake]

The sugar issue is very important. I never mention that in the recipes because for non vegans is very confusing. Vegans are supposed to know what kind of sugar they should use. I make sure mine is completely vegan by doing some research. I use turbinado for baking but sometimes I like regular white sugar.