Victoria Sponge Cake - EGGLESS Vegetarian/Vegan

You won't believe its vegan, a creamy rich sponge cake that everyone will love.
Serves: 12 approx
Preparation: 20 mins
Type: Vegan, Vegetarian, Halal, Kosher pareve passover.
Cooking time: 45 mins
Ingredients: 6 tbsp potato starch, 175g self raising flour, 175g vegetable margarine, 175g white vegan sugar, ¾ cup water/soya milk, 2-3 tbsp jam, Extra margarine and flour for greasing

Many thanks to Ms N Fisher for her help with this video.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• cake
• eggless
• vegetarian
• vegan
• halal
• kosher
• pareve
• passover
• victoria
• sponge
• dairy
• free
• jam
• allergy
• desert
• sweet
• treat
• soy
• jain
• vaishnav

[HectorAwol]

Hi there, what is the difference between white vegan sugar and normal sugar? Also does corn flour/maize starch have the same ability to hold same amount of liquid as the potato starch?

[VegetarianDatabase]

In USA, some sugar is considered non-Vegan as it is filtered through bone-char, so written like that is for the benefit of USA viewers and to make people aware of the issue.

Any starch would probably work fine as a binder..

[Medracin]

Will there be a big difference If water is used instead of soymilk? Can I use corn starch instead of potato starch? Great video! Love the recipe.

[VegetarianDatabase]

Well with water it might be a little less "creamy", also the proteins in soya MIGHT help the binding process of the cake... But yes any starch would be fine..

[lifoc]

mmmm i'm a bit uncomfortable in making sponge cake with "potato starch" .......... never knew that was possible ......... !!!

so, does the cake smell like potato or something .... or taste like it? .... does it turn out spongy like normal cakes? .... mmmm please clear my doubts :) thanks ..

and btw, isn't that background music an instrumental from an indian movie?

[VegetarianDatabase]

In the same way a cake with egg doesn't smell of egg, a cake made with potato starch doesn't. The potato starch is needed to bind the cake together, if you'd rather not use it, make sure you use a suitable alternative.

It's been tried and tested on non-vegans, they can't tell the difference.

And finally... yes, the music is from Kal Ho Naa Ho.

[bbbeachlover]

kal ho na ho! well the recipe looks very promising but the sound track makes me dubious ;-)hehe...just kidding

[HiraniHunni]

Kal Ho Naa Ho! this song is at every indian wedding i go to! excellent recipe by the way!!

[AdamSeeb]

Can wun use Spelt or Kamut flour insted'v wheet? ta.

[TheDoodlibop]

...I was definitely going to make a shout out and say "Heyyyy, that's Kal ho naa ho..." but lol, someone beat me to it. That aside, I think this looks marvelous! Thanks for posting. :D

[artswebshow]

This was a well presented home video.

Looks to me like a good recipe.

[billtheman100]

@VegetarianDatabase i dont really wanna heat a fat so how can i make a sponge cake?thanks

[suchandradasi]

I would use butter :-)

[saiashes]

Love the background music (Kal Ho Naa Ho) and thank you for this recipe and the one for the Shepherds pie...yum!!

[gagansihota]

the song from kal ho na ho is sooooo beautiful....sponge cake is beautiful and looks really good

[XDrowningIceX]

That's interesting. I'm hoping to start making cakes other than chocolate and this recipe looks very good.

[Fumfig]

Excellent, i will be trying this out soon. I am vegan and have been dieing to try out a vegan victoria sponge cake!