yummy dairy free bday cake

i made a dairy free birthday cake for bentley's bday dinner. the family came over to celebrate friday night (feb 11th) and i was in a panic googling for a good vanilla recipe. i came across one that looked good and decided to go for it. it turned out awesome and bentley seemed to LOVE it. thought i would share. if you are in need of a dairy free vanilla cake use this one!

ingredients:
4 cups of flour (not self-rising)
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
2 cups (1 stick) of Vegan butter such as Earth Balance or Smart Balance with Flax
2 cups of sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
4 eggs (room temperature)
2 cups of soy milk such as Silk
2 tablespoons of white vinegar

1) preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray your cooking pans.
2) combine the milk and vinegar in a medium bowl and set aside. the mixture will look curdled.

3) in a medium bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt...set aside.

4) beat butter and sugar at medium speed until pale and fluffy, then beat in vanilla
5) add eggs one at a time, beating well and scraping the bowl after each egg

6) at low speed beat in soy milk mixture until combined

7) add flour mixture in three batches, mixing until smooth.

bake at 350 for 35 minutes for giant cupcakes.

or just until golden on top.

enjoy!

i decided not to do a dairy free icing because none of the ones i found sounded good.

i figured i would just monitor his intake on the icing. of course that was what he wanted most! :0
i iced with buttercream icing and decorated with blue food coloring and red sugar sprinkles.

they turned out good!

Happy 1 year old! He went face first! :)