It's Cake Week on Made Just Right - Sponsored Post

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I hope you all had fun last week baking cookies and submitting your recipes to Earth Balance's Made Just Right™ Holiday Bake-off sponsored by Whole Foods Market. This week Earth Balance is asking for your best cake recipes! That means you can submit recipes for any dessert that comes includes cake – cupcakes pound cake fruitcake – let your imagination go wild!

Are you working on a cake recipe to serve after your Christmas dinner? You can submit your cake recipe at Made Just Right™ today through 11:59pm EST on December 26 so get baking! Winners will receive a 400 Whole Foods Market gift card and a year's supply of Earth Balance® products!

Here is one of my favorite cake recipes from my book p. 188. 

Lemon-Poppy Seed Poundcake

Ingredients

Cake:

1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup maple sugar
2 t egg replacer I like Ener-G
2 t baking powder
1 t baking soda
1 t sea salt
½ cup Earth Balance® soy milk
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
½ cup safflower oil
½ cup maple syrup
1 t lemon extract
2 T poppy seeds

Lemon Maple Glaze:

½ cup maple syrup
½ cup lemon juice
2 t kuzu diluted in a little bit of cold water

Berry Glaze:

1 bag frozen berries thawed
Maple syrup to taste
Vanilla extract to taste

Steps

Preheat the oven to 350.
Oil the pans you can use 3 mini loaf pans a muffin tin or 4 mini Bundt pans
Combine the flours sugar egg replacer baking powder baking soda and salt
In a separate bowl combine the milk with the lemon juice and set aside for a few minutes; it will look curdled
Whisk in the oil syrup and lemon etract
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir just until combined
Fold in the poppy seeds
Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 15-25 minutes mini loafs and muffins take about 15-18 minutes; loaf and Bundt pans take 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean
Cool the cake completely in the pans on a baking rack
If using the Lemon Maple Glaze combine the syrup and lemon juice in a saucepan over medium heat
Stir in the diluted kuzu and continue stirring until the glaze comes to a boil
Simmer for 1 minute
Drizzle over the cake and serve
If using the Berry Glaze whiz the berries in a blender with the syrup and vanilla extract to taste
Drizzle over the cake and serve

Have fun making your cakes and remember to submit your recipes at Made Just Right™! Remember it will be way cooler if your cake is vegan!