This morning marks the beginnings of my experimentation/misadventures with vegan baking! Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts about food and cooking, and with my recent vegan transition I have decided I want to try making more things by myself, sweets included!
今朝は私の手作りヴィーガンスイーツ試作第一回です!最近毎日料理についてのポッドキャストを聴いているし、先月ヴィーガンになったので、自分でもっと食べ物を作ることにしました。不健康のですが、甘い物が大好物で、それも作ろうと思います。
However, my kitchen is very small and I have very limited equipment. I am without an oven, so I can’t really bake anything traditionally.
台所は小さいもので、オーブンなど持っていませんので、普通にオブーンで焼けません。
One way to get around this is to use a rice cooker to bake things like cakes and breads. It is actually pretty common here (https://jp.pinterest.com/explore/rice-cooker-cake/) and you can find a lot of recipes online. The cakes look pretty cute (or silly) when they finish baking.
その一方、炊飯器を生かして、ケーキやパンを作ろうと思います。出来上がったらケーキは炊飯器の形になって可愛いと思います。
For this installment of my baking experimentation, I decided to try the rice cooker method to make a vegan cake using pancake mix, sweet potato, and soymilk.
今回、ホットケーキミックス、さつまいも、豆乳を使ってこの方法でヴィーガンケーキを作ってみました。
Ingredients in the pancake (hotcake) mix: flour, a variety of sugar, liquid sweeteners, salt, baking powder, fragrance… The mix is produced in a factory that shares equipment with egg and milk products, but the only allergen in the mix is wheat. You can find this brand of pancake mix basically at any supermarket.
このホットケーキミックスには動物製品は含まれていませんので使いました。普通のスーパーで買えるはずです。
To make the cake, I used a 200 gram pack of mix, 1 cup of soymilk, and two small sweet potatoes, steamed and then mashed. Since the pancake mix included sugar already, I didn’t add any extra sweetener. I mixed it all together and poured the batter into my rice cooker. I baked the cake for approximately 1 hour, but it probably should have been in for longer (some parts of the cake were still a bit soft, unfortunately.)
生地は簡単で、ホットケーキミックスが200グラム袋、豆乳(1カップ)、蒸してつぶしたさつまいも(小さい2本を使った)だけです。ミックスには砂糖がたっぷりなので追加が要らないと思いました。材料をボールによく混ぜて、炊飯器で1時間ぐらい焼きましたが、残念ながらもっと長ければよかったと思います!
Here was the final product:
結果は…
The flavor of the cake was not as bad as I anticipated–I like the idea of putting in vegetables into the mix, and the sweet potatoes lend well to baking. Next time, however, I will let the cake bake for longer! I also want to try finding a mix that contains less sugar to make something a bit healthier.
味わったら、まあまあでした。野菜を入れてスイーツを作るのがいいアイディアだと思いますが…次回、もっと長い時間で焼くと思います。健康のために、使ったのより、糖質が低いホッとケーキミックスも見つけたいと思います。
Original Recipe 参考:https://cookpad.com/recipe/4410255