You would never know this awesome victoria sponge was vegan! After much experimenting and several flops of too dense, too crumbly, too not-like-regular-cake recipes we have finally settled on this as our go-to sponge cake.
I filled mine with strawberry jam and this buttercream frosting – it was amazing. Let me know if you give this a go 🙂 L x
Vegan Victoria Sponge Recipe
Ingredients:
250g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 250g caster sugar
- 75ml sunflower oil
- 250ml soya milk
- 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 180* C Fan 170*C. Grease and line two sandwich tins with baking paper ( or a circle of foil if you don’t have baking paper – I never seem to!).
- Pour the milk into a bowl, add the vinegar and stir: this will make it curdle. Set aside.
- Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl and add the caster sugar.
- Pour the milk/vinegar mixture, oil and vanilla essence into the flour and mix well.
- Divide the cake batter between the two tins and bake for 25-30 minutes (they are cooked when they go slightly golden on top and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean).
- Leave until completely cool, then fill with jam and vegan buttercream or whipped cream!
Ooo the recipe for the cake isn’t showing? x
Brilliant recipe. We are vegetarians but my 10 month old granddaughter has been diagnosed with dairy and egg allergy so turning to vegan recipes.
I adapted this to make some little cakes and added a handful of sultanas. Absolutely delicious .
So glad you liked them Sue 🙂
Is it definitely two teaspoons of Apple cider Vinegar and not two Tablespoons? Similar sized sponges I’ve made before have 2 Tablespoons so I
thought it might be a typo and put in two Tbl Spoons – It turned out fine btw.
It is 2 tsps but glad it worked fine with 2 tblspoons! 🙂
Can you use semi skimmed milk instead of soya
Yes you could, it wouldn’t be vegan then though (obviously hehe). Vegan alternatives to soy could be oat, almond or rice milk x
Would any milk alternative do or does soya give the best results? My son has soya and nut allergy so can’t use anything apart from coconut milk.
Coconut would be fine, the taste might come through a bit – oat milk or rice milk would be milder alternatives withotu soya or nuts 🙂 x
Standard 6 inch cake tins – I’ll add this to recipe now. And the recipe is correct – 2 tsps apple cider vinegar 🙂
Thank u x
Tried making it in a 8inch and 9 inch cake tins and of course worked out the correct amount of ingredients I need and both were a flop.
Any ideas if and why this is? Xx
Such a good recipe! I added half a cup of frozen raspberries (thawed) and the rind of a lemon, slathered it in vegan buttercream and it tasted delish!
I use a very similar recipe and wholemeal flour and it tastes delicious while being light and moist. I am a very strict vegetarian who eats mostly vegan but on high days and holidays I allow myself to join in and eat vegetarian foods. This means I recently ate standard Victoria sponge cake I made for my daughter’s birthday. It tasted lovely but honestly I enjoyed the vegan one I just made today even more.
You can’t taste the vinegar and adding it makes the mixture more acidic which reacts with the baking powder giving a good rise to the cake making it nice and light. Birthday’s over now, so just jam but it does taste very good. I have a recipe for a vegan ‘cream’ that is very good. I might put that in the cake for my own birthday. Cake is good!