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. I haven't heard that about cake yet, but I generally find vegan cakes indistinguishable from the dairy/egg variants now.
A cake shop opened up locally and my wife asked if they had any Vegan options as both our kids are allergic to dairy and my wife is off milk for feeding the youngest. They said they didn’t so she messaged them later on Facebook and mentioned this. By the next day they had messages back and added a vegan option so we bought some. It was delicious, but being outside of London and a bit parochial the cake was just called “Vegan” rather than “Caramel cherry slice” which was the best description I could match to it. My wife mentioned that they should just call it what it was rather than “VEGAN” as really no one would know any different. Went back the other day and they had two vegan options. Bought some more, and again, equally delicious and you could never tell the difference.
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Oliver Schick
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.