its cake week on made just right

Last week we announced the 2nd Annual Made Just Right™ Holiday Bake-Off brought to you by Earth Balance®. We've just wrapped up the pie portion of the competition and now we are moving on to vegan cake recipes… delicious fluffy glorious cakes!
Submit your original vegan recipes for a chance to win great prizes including:

1400 Whole Foods Market gift card
A year's supply of Earth Balance® products
Earth Balance® gift pack featuring a bamboo cutting board & kitchen supplies
'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition' by Julieanna Hever! 

Do you have a yummy vegan cake recipe? Submit it to the contest here! Cake recipes must be submitted by 11:59 EST on December 11th so start baking! The following week we will be accepting cupcake recipes and then the final week of the competition will be all about cookies. You can submit as many vegan recipes as you like and we are giving out a special prize for 'Most Recipes Submitted'!
 
To get you inspired check out this celebratory birthday cake recipe created by two of the fabulous judges in this year's Holiday Bake-Off recipe contest Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg of Spork Foods.

VEGAN BIRTHDAY CAKE

Ingredients

1 cup spelt flour
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon non-aluminum baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons egg replacer dry
1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
2 cups unsweetened Earth Balance® Soymilk plus 11⁄2 teaspoons unfiltered apple cider vinegar set aside to curdle
1/3 cup neutral tasting oil
1 cup evaporated cane sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons naturally dyed sprinkles

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F.

In a large bowl combine flours baking powder baking soda egg replacer and sea salt. Whisk until uniform.

In a separate bowl whisk curdled soymilk oil sugar and vanilla extract and slowly incorporate into dry ingredients. Mix batter until uniform but do not over mix.

Pour batter into two greased 9-inch- round baking dishes. Bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into middle of cake.

Find out how to make the frosting and assemble the cake by heading on over to Made Just Right™! And don't forget to submit your own vegan recipe while you're there!

Photo Credit: Patrick M. Gookin II

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