The official Have Your Cake and Vegan Too review thread (to be updated).
Add recipe reviews for Have Your Cake and Vegan Too: 50 Dazzling and Delicious Cake Creations by Kris Holechek here, and I will add them to the compilation. I've typed this list over from Amazon preview, so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Basic Cakes
Vanilla
I hate to say that this has been the worst cake recipe I've ever tried. I mean it straight up tastes like flour, sugar, and liquid. I'm a big fan of Kris's baking but it seems like some of her cakes/breads can be like that since she likes to use simple ingredients. Try this at your own risk. (intheend)
Chocolate
Made it for my son's birthday, and we all loved it. I frosted it with a boiled frosting (my favorite), and we all ate cake until we were sick. The cake is very moist, almost spongy in texture, and chocolatey. I think it's a veganized version of Hershey's chocolate cake recipe, that recipe uses boiling water as well. I'm not sure what exactly the boiling water does, but it works for me! (sweetgeorgiapeach)
Gluten free vanilla
Gluten free chocolate
Breakfast and Snack Cakes
Cherry oat snack cake
Nutty nana cake
My o meyer lemon bundt cake
The great pumpkin bundt cake
Snazzy razzy almond coffee cake
Chocolate crunch cake
Tie an apple ribbon round my coffee cake
Intensely chocolate bundt cake
Made it while I was vacationing with my family, hoping to tempt my chocolate-loving but vegan-phobic dad & uncles. It worked! My dad admitted that it was pretty good, and my mother commented that it was very moist. I thought it was delicious and fairly easy to make. The cake part, as my mother said, is nice and moist. The syrup hardens to a kind of glaze on top and stays sticky on the bottom, which was a nice contrast. I didn't have a lot of pecans, so I left those out, but I will use them next time for sure. (sweetgeorgiapeach)
Spiced crumb cake
This little cake packs a lot of flavor from the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cardamom. You don't really see cardamom called for in baked goods all that often so I was excited to use it in this. This tasted great along side some tea for breakfast and goes over well with crowds (I sent it to my partner's work and it was devoured). (intheend)
Pleased plum coffee cake
Simple Layer Cakes
Banana fudge striped cake
Bananas and chocolate is a winning combo, you'd have to be pretty lame to mess that up. Saying that, this is a great recipe that could be made using all applesauce which makes it lower fat and super moist. (intheend)
Zucchini cake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting
Amy's huh what peach cake
Pappy's pistachio tea cake
Torta limone
Cardamom cashew cake
Gluten free Mexican chocolate torte
Bananas foster cake
Anise orange cake
Potluck pineapple upside down cake
Sunny puddin poke cake
Multilayer Cakes
Big Debbie's cream cake
Peanut butter chocolate dream cake
Doesn't look a thing like the picture. My layers turned out about half the height of the ones in the picture, and my peanut butter filling was less fluffy and more like caramel (that could've been my fault, maybe I beat it too long or it got too warm?). That being said, this cake is amazingly delicious. The cake part is dense and very rich, the filling is creamy peanut butter that melts in your mouth, and the peanut butter ganache topping is a sophisticated touch. I'll be making this again. (sweetgeorgiapeach)
Almond mocha cake
Choconutty cream cake
Dad is great chocolate cake
Loved it. It made a nice presentation by baking it in a loaf pan and then splitting it in two. However, I'm not a fan of the tofu frosting. Definitely going to stick with a vegan buttercream for the next time. (schmige)
Spumoni cake
Bubbie's chubby tuxedo cake
Gluten free monkey maple cake
Snickerdoodle cake
Matcha made in heaven cake
German girl scout cake
Think Outside the Round Cakes
Pound of maple sugar cake
Orange you glad it's puddin cake
Meh. I thought this was actually plain but everyone else seemed to like it. I'm not sure what it was that could have been added but it just seemed like it tasted of sugar + milk + orange juice. (intheend)
Gluten free lemon poppyseed cheesecake
Plumpy pumpkin roll
Gluten free berry shortcake
Lovely lemon poundcake
Gluten free perfect PB brownie cheesecake
Tastes great fruitcake
No Bake Cakes
Spiced rice cranberry cake
Black forest crock cake
Necking with blueberries slump
Mocha melt cake two ways
Slow as apple pie cake
Gluten free slump into fall
Cake accoutrements
Cinnamon glaze
Basic glaze
Maple glaze
Cashew icing
Chocolate sauce
Chocolate ganache
Chocolate creme
Raspberry creme
Coconut cream topping
Berry compote
Cream cheese frosting
Cinnamon cream cheese frosting
Vanilla buttercream
Chocolate buttercream
Coffee buttercream
Matcha buttercream
Maple buttercream