Old Fashion Nut Cake - Made Vegan

I love making old-fashion recipes and modernizing them with a dairy-free twist. Several years ago, I found this Seattle-based Cook Book called Table Talk that was written back in the 1950's.

There are several amazing recipes that are also super easy to veganize. 

I have this old-fashion style of dress that is designed from a company that was based in New York. Although the dress is from the 1970's, it has an older design like a 1930's low-waisted dress. 

With all this sense of being old-fashion, I decided to make the "Old Fashion Nut Cake," recipe, and instead of eggs I used banana. 

Bananas and applesauce are two fruit-based egg replacements. It add the moisture, texture and flavor to any vegan baked good. So for this recipe, I chose to work with bananas as the egg base. 

In addition, many recipes call for a TON of sugar. I naturally reduce the sugar because of health reasons, but also when using fruit as an egg substitute, it becomes naturally sweeter. 

​In modern times, we eat too much sugar so I prefer making baked goods naturally sweet first, and then adding additional sugar. 

It is my hope that people learn how to eat and bake healthier and dairy free! 

"I was partly old fashion and partly modern."
​-Eric Allen Cornell- 

This vintage dress and other vintage items are available on my Etsy shop, The Elizabethan Closet.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.      
​- Dean Koontz

Old Fashion Nut Cake - Made Vegan
Makes 1 9-inch cake
Total TIme approx. 45 min

Ingredients: 
1/2 cup sugar 
1/4 cup vegan butter at room temperature
3/4 cup nondairy milk
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup nuts (used walnuts)
1/4 tsp vanilla
4 ripe bananas, mashed

Directions: 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

Cream together the butter and sugar in a bowl. Add the milk, vanilla and mashed banana and mix until well combined. In a separate bowl,  sift and mix together the flour and baking powder. Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Fold until it forms a dough. Add in the nuts and mix until well combined. 

Pour the dough into a greased 9-inch baking pan and bake for around 40 minutes or until fragrant and a knife comes out clean from the poke test. Let the cake cool before cutting. 

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