Make Your Own Vegan Wedding Cake

This is a sponsored post: A vegan wedding cake appeals to many for a myriad of reasons; you don’t have to be vegan to enjoy it. It’s a great choice for the lactose intolerant, as well as anyone wanting pure, fresh, and possibly organic ingredients in their food. It has an unmistakably powerful appeal.

Of course, wedding cakes of any variety do not come cheap and it’s fair to say that vegan wedding cakes weigh in at the top end. There is no question that the cost of a vegan wedding cake is going to be higher than your more traditional varieties. In fact it is almost twice as much, with the average wedding cake running about £ 3-4($4-$7) per slice and the average vegan cake about £4-£5 ($8.50 to $10) per slice. Like most things in life, you get what you pay for, and quality ingredients and intricacy of cake design all factor into the final price.

A bakery run from home may well prove to be the most economical solution if you plan to buy your cake, but the price alone should not entirely determine your selection. The good news is that there is also another way to serve your guests delicious, pure, vegan-friendly wedding cake without breaking the bank – you can make it yourself.

There’s a lot of pressure on wedding cakes but there are a host of easy-to-follow vegan wedding cake recipes on the internet. If you're interested in some of these cookbooks, you can use this Williams Sonoma promo code to help you out. Indulge here if you can because your wedding cake, vegan or otherwise, remains the most memorable food at the nuptial festivities.

The recipes below are good examples of vegan recipes; clicking on the links will take you to the respective recipe’s site.

Vegan Wedding Carrot Cake

Vegan Almond Jaconde

Black Forest with flour

Chocolate Devastation

Raspberry Lemon Wedding Cake

German Chocolate Cake

Vegans typically avoid the following ingredients when making cakes: honey, eggs, gelatine, which is a by-product of slaughterhouses, dairy, butter, milk and cheese. There are ways to get around using these ingredients and some proper substitutes include but are not limited to: vegan powdered sugar (home-made or Wholesome Foods, which is found at most health stores), agar-agar, Emes, Kojel or Hain instead of gelatine and Spectrum Spread non-hydrogenated margarine in place of butter.

Where can you find the necessary ingredients for a vegan wedding cake?

Thankfully, Asda comes to the rescue! With help from their online grocery in the form of Asda Discount Codes and Asda Discount Vouchers, you can make your cake cheaply and eat it too, despite the old proverb that says you can’t!

Green City Wedding Guide for LONDON

The online magazine Eco Beautiful Weddings just posted its Fall 2010 Issue and it includes a Green City Wedding Guide for London featuring a lot of independent and sustainable local wedding businesses. Blushless is in there as well. (page 29) If you are a UK bride to be, you should definitely check it out. (P.S: The article has been written by the fabulous Anna And The Ring)

Thanks to a fabulous team!

The BLUSHLESS video-/photoshoot went great. It was magical to see the dresses worn and in movement and suddenly I remembered what all the sleepless nights are for, and why I have to keep going. This is what I love. It will always be worth to give everything for it.

Thanks again to all the wonderful people that were involved and made it happen. Everyone has been fabulous, so was the location and even the sun was shining. I can't wait to see the results! I will have to wait for the photos a few more days and the video will need quite a lot of post production, so it will still be a busy week before the official dress revealing. But Liv will be back to full blog posting speed soon. !!!More backstage photos as well as credits to come!!!

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Photo courtesy of Yelena Yemchuk Photography

Liv is organising the upcoming photo/video shoot for the new Blushless styles, finishing dresses, puzzling the concept together. Psssssssssssst, it will be 1,2,3! new styles- And you had a little sneak-peak already. Time is going superfast right now. Can't believe August is already over. 2010 is on speed. I have to go back to work. See ya soon.