Vegan Lemon Blueberry Snorlax Cake

Vegan lemon blueberry cake shaped like Snorlax: it’s bright, fluffy, and perfect for Pokémon fans who love a sweet surprise.

This recipe makes a two 9" round cakes.

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• Cake Recipe
• Frosting Recipe
• Decorating Instructions
• Contact Me with Questions
• Similar Recipes

I made this snorlax cake for my nephew for his birthday because we’ve been playing pokemon go together a lot lately. You probably assume my nephew is turning 5 or 7, but you’d be wrong. He’s turning 27.

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Ingredients for Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cake Recipe

• 3 cups organic unbleached white flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups organic sugar
• ½ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (~3 lemons)
• zest from all the lemons
• ⅔ cup sunflower oil
• 1 ½ cups nondairy milk
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 pint blueberries (sub frozen if needed)

How to Make a Lemon Blueberry Snorlax Cake

Preheat the oven to 375°.

Oil 2 9" round cake pans and line with parchment paper (and then lightly oil the parchment paper too).

Combine the vinegar and nondairy milk and let sit. In another bowl, sift the flour, soda, and salt.

Add the oil, sugar, lemon juice and zest, and vanilla to the nondairy milk mixture and stir well.

Add the dry ingredients slowly to the wet mixing in between.

Fill the 9" round cake pans about half full.

Plop the blueberries on top of the cake batter in both cake pans.

Bake for 10 minutes, and reduce heat to 350°. Bake for 20-25 minutes until when you insert a toothpick into the center of one, it comes out clean. Set cake pans on cooling rack to cool for 30 minutes before flipping over. Then cool completely on cooling rack.

Ingredients for Vegan Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe

• ¾ cup vegan butter or margarine (if you avoid soy, buy the soy-free earth balance; otherwise buy the organic whipped earth balance)*
• ¾ cup organic palm shortening*
• 2-3 tablespoons nondairy milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 4-5 cups organic powdered sugar*
• blue and black vegan food coloring

How to Make Vegan Frosting for a Snorlax Cake

Whisk the Spectrum sustainable organic palm shortening and margarine for a minimum of 1 minute using a stand mixer or a handheld electric mixer.

Sift in half of the powdered sugar, mixing for 2 minutes after.

Add the vanilla and nondairy milk, and continue to mix for 2 more minutes.

Sift in the remaining powdered sugar, mixing for 2 minutes after.

Transfer half of the frosting to another bowl.

Add blue vegan food coloring to the frosting that’s left, and continue to mix for 2 more minutes.

Add black vegan food coloring to 2 tablespoons of the white frosting and mix with a small spoon.

How to Decorate a Vegan Snorlax Lemon Blueberry Cake

Cut one of the round cakes into an oval shape by trimming some of the cake off the top and sides.

Cut 2 triangle ears out of the second cake.

Press the ears onto the face.

Frost the entire face and ears with uncolored frosting.

Freeze the cake for 10-15 minutes. While it freezes, prepare the frosting.

Transfer a quarter of the blue frosting to a plastic squeeze bottle or to a piping bag fitted with tip 4.

Transfer the black frosting to a small plastic squeeze bottle or to a piping bag fitted with tip 3.

Frost the white part of Snorlax’s face (top and sides) with the uncolored frosting to cover the crumb coat.

Draw the eyes and mouth onto the face with the black frosting.

Draw the outline of the blue with the piping bag.

Frost the rest of the blue part of Snorlax with the blue frosting using a butter knife or spatula.

Freeze again before transporting to ensure the frosting doesn’t smear.

Comments or Questions?

If you make this recipe, I would love it if you’d snap a pic, post to instagram, and tag me @vegandollhouse. It seriously makes my day/week/month!

Please message me (instagram or email) if you have any questions or feedback about the recipe.

Similar Recipes

If you like this easy snorlax cake, you might also like my 1-layer hello kitty cake and my pompompurin cake.

If you are another adult who likes pokemon, you might also like my pikachu soup, my bulbasaur soup, my ditto steamed buns, and my pikachu cake.

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