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[serene]

Made vegan spice cake. Yummy.

Zombie Serene will eat your BRAINS!

Zombie Serene's new hat.

New plan now that I'm not getting home from work around 11 or 11:30pm is to go to bed at 11 every night so I can get some decent sleep. So good night, lovelies.

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[patgund.livejournal.com]

(Chuckle) Vegan brains?

[(Anonymous)]

GRRRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS...

[flippac.livejournal.com]

Er, that was me. Forgot to sign in again after the downtime.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

I hurt myself laughing. GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINS.....

Yum!

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

Spice cake My Favorite

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

*squeeeeaaaaallll!!!!* OMG I want that hat, that is SO cute!!

Uh, I've never yet had vegan cake that I liked, but that spice cake looks like it could be the one. Please could I beg the recipe? If I flutter my eyelashes really really hard?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

How could I deny someone so alluring and kee-yoot?

It turned out really great. Walnuts instead of pecans, and I didn't have enough raisins, so I used a cup rather than a cup and a half, and my partners said it's more than enough raisins. The texture is light and moist, and I would have never guessed it was vegan. I highly recommend this cake. We had it with a little vanilla ice cream.

Boiled Spice Cake

Cake:
3 c. unbleached white flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups raisins
1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
3/4 tsp. ground nutmeg (I used fresh grated)
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup vegan margarine
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Glaze: (I omitted the glaze)
2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
3 cups confectioners' sugar

Preheat oven to 350F. Sift flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl. The recipe says to spray a 12-cup bundt pan with cooking spray, but I wiped a little oil into my silicone bundt pan. Set the pan aside. Combine sugar, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt, and 1 1/2 cups water in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook 5 minutes or until raisins plump up. Remove from heat. Stir in margarine.

When margarine has melted, add flour mixture and pecans to saucepan. Blend well. Pour into pan. Bake 35-45 minutes, until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan, then invert onto wire rack and cool completely.

To make glaze, whisk lemon juice into confectioners' sugar. Pour over cooled cake. Decorate with whole pecans, if desired.

Serves 16, they say. Ha! Anyway, each of these mythical servings has 391 calories, 4g protein, 11.5g total fat, 72g carb, no cholesterol, 259mg sodium, a gram of fiber, and 49g sugar.

Oh, my gosh, that cake!

[gloriajn.livejournal.com]

It was all I could do to keep from licking the monitor! :)

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*I* really liked it!

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

*cut* *paste* *save*

Thank you, thank you!

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

Finally got around to making this cake. It was gooooooood.... mmmmmm.... I think next time I might do it with the glaze, which might be even better. Thank you for the recipe, honey!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yay! I overbaked the one for T-day a bit, so it was very dry. :-(