Needs Moar Cake

While I think I prefer the Gluten-free Pantry Gluten-free vanilla cake mix, it isn't sold anywhere in my county. So this time, I'm trying to make a vanilla cake with the Namaste mix.

My previous attempts with the Namaste Gluten-Free Cake Mix have been very meh. The texture is a bit gritty, and the vanilla flavoring is just...meh. So this time I'm playing with it to see if I can't make it a bit better.

The mix calls for
3 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup water

I'm using:
3 tbs Ener-G Egg Replacer
3 tbs Dari-Free
2/3 cup oil
1 1/4 cups Pacific Vanilla Almond Milk
A dash of French Vanilla (which is *not* gluten-free, just so you know)
About 1/2 bag of Enjoy Life semi-sweet chocolate chips

There's nothing I can really do about the texture, but let's see how the creamy-up works.

Result: Texture is about the same. The taste is slightly better. Chocolate chips are a nice touch, but it's not the best cake ever. Meh.

Experimentation! This time with 1000% more pie!

While it isn't all that difficult to find cake mixes and whatnot without dairy products, it is a challenge to find ways of making cakes without eggs. So instead of making cakes for my and my brother's birthday several years ago, my mother decided to make fresh strawberry pie. And it was so good, I briefly considered making it an annual thing.

Well, I refuse to give up the things I like to eat simply because they're usually made with evil stuff like wheat flour or wholesome milk. And it helps that the local Costco had strawberries that smelled really good. So last night I tried out making a strawberry pie that I can eat.

It shouldn't be all that difficult, right?

Heh.

Here's what I used:

Filling:
Tons of fresh strawberries
1 package of Junket (strawberry flavored) [Sorry guys, this isn't vegan. But it *is* corn-free.]
Water for the gelatin

Crust:
Namaste gluten-free biscuit mix
Canola oil
Sugar
Water

The pie crusts didn't brown within the time the package gave me, so I baked it extra time. Turns out that's a bad idea. The crusts were too thick on the sides, and too crunchy.

But the filling turned out wonderfully. Mmmm. Red food coloring.