Most people when they think of vegan baked goods, think of dry, flavorless, cardboard like substances made of unpronounceable ingredients that sound like they belong in a chemistry lab book rather than in your body. Sugarless baked goods seem like they have something slightly, just slightly "off" about their taste. Fat free desserts always leave you wanting- well, the real stuff.
This is an orange lime citrus cake (pre lighting the lotus flower candles!)
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I really didn't believe Underscores when they said the cake was, VEGAN, with about 2/3 the fat and sugar of normal cakes. What the what??
Especially when I tasted the luxuriously moist, perfectly balanced between dense and light, citrus fragrant chunks of golden cake. This cake is nothing short of incredible. The icing was just creamy enough with the right amount of genuine sweetness- a combination that leaves you actually feeling good after you eat cake. Yep, you feel GOOD after eating the cake- like no food comas or like you just ate 3 sticks of butter and a burlap sack of sugar. No sugar crash. No heaviness.
It's a rare find and breed of cake like this that makes me think. I've wasted too much of my money on desserts with sickeningly sweet and overly rich icings, made with low quality, highly processed, preservative laden ingredients. You know, the ones that leave behind major food regret and blood sugar spikes.
I know that many people hear any kind of remotely health related dessert and immediately dismiss it, assuming it's a food only eaten by obsessive health nuts so there's no way it could be delicious. But it just so happens that this cake is, and not only is it 'not bad' for you, it may actually be giving you nutrients, especially with Underscore's retro cooking style. However, it is first and foremost, a delicious food. Swear to god you could fool anyone with this cake, even the most die hard dairy lovers and haute-cuisine connoisseurs (which admittedly I am a bit of both). But you probably won't have to because its quality "eats for itself." To boot, all of these cakes can be custom tailored for almost any special allergies.
Finally, we can all eat in a safe, delicious, and sustainable way.
Thanks Underscores for one of the best cake experiences of my life, and for filling a gap in the food industry that is sorely needed. read more