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Well done to your family for baking a vegan cake. Cakes baked with dairy and eggs are, of course, not 'normal', they're just cakes baked with dairy and eggs. Vegan cake recipes abound today and are so much better than what you used to get 20 years ago. That you're going to get someone who doesn't want to be open to all that is quite normal; it's almost a rule that in any group someone is going to have a different opinion. At the end of the day, if the cake is tasty, people will eat it; cake isn't the sort of food where you get those nutrition questions, e.g. 'will I get enough protein from this?'.
The key is to always be positive, with positive points, even about vegan junk food, for instance--'here, look at all these vegan burger places'--, and with cake it's even easier. Similarly, going back 20 years or more now, I've often heard non-vegan people say after trying vegan ice cream that they actively prefer it to dairy ice cream. I haven't heard that about cake yet, but I generally find vegan cakes indistinguishable from the dairy/egg variants now.
Good that it all ended in a bit of humour.
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Oliver Schick
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1st awkward vegan experience this week . nothing bad just slightly awkward moment.
I went to a birthday of my sister in law the food was great as they ordered a take away that had some good vegan options, the awkwardness came the birthday cake. the daughter of the birthday girl had made a special vegan cake so we could all enjoy and it was really nice..the Husband of the birthday girl refused to eat any because it wasn't a proper cake, at first i thought he was just taking he piss having a laugh but he flat refused to try any and you could tell he was annoyed and having a strop . He was put out because he wasn't getting a normal cake :(
i know he was being silly and its his problem but it felt because of my diet requirements i had caused the problem. It was the 1st time being vegan became a "thing" but it was all fine after the daughter called him a moany old gammon and threw a raspberry at him.