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Hello Readers.
For those of you who love Valentine’s Day, this month’s offering is a very sweet vanilla cake with pink frosting. It is not the healthiest fare, but love, like food, can be both good and bad for you at the same time.

Have fun with this recipe—it is a good basic vegan cake concoction. The hint of spice in this is a nice addition, which can be furthered by including some grated lemon peel. Make this as two cakes, in two heart-shaped cake pans—give one to your special friend and one to some other looker (hedging your bets)—or just eat them both yourself!

Vanilla Cake
3 C. Cake Flour, sifted
2 t. Baking Soda
1 t. Baking Powder
1 t. Cornstarch or Potato Starch
1⁄4 t. Cinnamon
1⁄4 t. Powdered Ginger
1⁄4 t. Nutmeg
Pinch Salt
2 C. Sugar
2 C. Vegan Milk, vanilla flavored
1 T. White Vinegar, Cider Vinegar or Lemon Juice
3⁄4 C. Cooking Oil or Melted Shortening
1 T. Vanilla

Option: for a pink cake, replace some of the vegan milk with some red fruit or berry juice

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly grease and flour two 8” cake pans (use heart-shaped if possible).

2. Sift together the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

3. Mix together the wet ingredients in another bowl and add this to the dry, gradually stirring it in. Make a fairly smooth batter.

4. Pour into cake pans and bake for 45 minutes (or until ye olde toothpick comes out clean).

5. Cool on wire racks for 10 minutes or so and then carefully turn out. Cool a bit longer and frost when appropriate.

Basic Pink Frosting
1⁄4 C. Sweet Vegan Cream
1 t. Vanilla
1⁄4 C. Softened Margarine
1 or 2 T. of Red Berry or Fruit Juice
Pinch of Powdered Ginger
Several Cups of Powdered Sugar

Option: if using all of this margarine bums you out, try some peeled, mashed fruit with a bit of lemon juice or some very bland silken tofu.

1. Mix together everything but the powdered sugar. Mix in powdered sugar slowly and thoroughly until a nice happy frosting is formed, of a spreadable consistency.

2. You may chill this a bit before frosting to firm it up a little if that is easier. Feel free to add more juice to make the color more prominent.

See you next month, my lovelies!

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