Vegan Boozy Strawberry Shortcake

My whole life, I have loved strawberry shortcake. For my birthdays growing up, this is what my family would make me. This and coconut cake. But that is for another time.

A past boyfriend of mine also in loved with this delicious desert. The year we were dating, he was turning 21, so I decided I would make him a boozy strawberry shortcake. In the icing and soaked in the strawberries, there is amaretto liquor. It doesn’t impart any mind-altering effects on the consumer, but the taste is still there non-the-less. I suppose if you had a lot of cake you might feel it (I did end up using about half the bottle in total).

I was really excited to create this cake. And to give it to him. Yes, the cake is vegan. He is not. But he loved it! If you’re on the fence about vegan things- take it from a carnivore and hater of all things that promote themselves as “healthy”: this was a good cake.

Ingredients

The Cake Itself:

• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup non-dairy milk
• 1 Tbsp vanilla
• 1 Tbsp almond extract
• 1 Tbsp apple cider vinager
• 1/2 cup coconut oil (melted)