Galette des rois vegan

COG's vegan king cake.

“Our shoes are vegan, our frangipane cake is too!”

With the end-of-year celebrations over, we are motivated to put away our little indulgences and start over on a good footing. This usually starts with putting a slight brake on sweets to lose the extra pounds from our end-of-year excesses.

But the hour of Epiphany is already ringing, and no luck, at COG, we may want to keep our figure, but we are also very greedy! So if your first good resolution for 2022 rhymes with a diet, to protect yourself, we invite you to go back immediately and visit the page of our cuties women's sneakers Or men's sneakers, all eco-responsible and made with love.

Let it be said, today here, we are sharing with you our tried and tested recipe for   vegan frangipane king cake, and what a cake! Vegan (without animal ingredients) and delicious as can be, our recipe will be a hit with your friends.

Prepare your taste buds, heat up your stoves, and let's go!



Lists of the ingredients of the Galette des Rois Vegan:

  • 2 rolls of organic vegetable puff pastry
  • 60 g of whole brown sugar
  • 3 tbsp neutral oil
  • 1 tsp bitter almond flavoring
  • 300 g of almond powder
  • 25 cl of vegetable cream
  • 50 g cornstarch or gluten-free flour
  • 2 pinches of vanilla powder
  • 2 tbsp apricot jam
  • 1 bottom glass of water ⅓ cap of rum (for the daring)
  • 1 bean (the ultimate ingredient)

Steps of preparation for the galette des rois at La Frangipane Vegan:

1. Start by mixing the oil and sugar in a salad bowl, then add the starch, vanilla and almond powder.

2. Then add the vegetable cream, the almond flavoring, and if you want an exotic note to your frangipane, add ⅓ of a cap of rum. Mix everything together then set your preparation aside.

3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

4. Carefully spread the first vegetable dough on the baking sheet.

5. Spread the frangipane obtained in the center, trying to be as even as possible and leaving a border of 2-3 cm around the entire perimeter of the cake, then place the bean on top.

6. Place the second roll of vegetable dough on top and using your fingers, seal the two doughs together.

7. Bake for about twenty minutes until the edges and top of the cake are golden brown.

8. Dilute 2 tablespoons of apricot jam with a little water. Place everything in a saucepan over low heat until you obtain a smooth syrup mixture.

Once the cake is finished cooking, immediately cover it with the glaze using a brush.

9. Leave to cool for a few hours. Your vegan frangipane king cake is ready!

What is the origin of the galette des rois ?

We come to the last, and probably the most enjoyable step of our vegan frangipane galette recipe:  the tasting  !

For the occasion, we take out the beautiful silverware received as a gift at Christmas or our prettiest wooden cutlery. We place here and there on the table a few winter decorations of circumstance and the recycled cardboard crowns of the queen and the king prepared with care in advance.

Our most beautiful pair of vegan shoes (made @ COG of course) is put on, our most ceremonious outfit is on, everything is ready to receive the guests.

Let's loosen our belts, let's party, let's have a banquet, with this last anecdote to entertain your guests:

“Today, I found the bean while biting into the cake!  Tomorrow I'm going to get my crown from the dentist."

Before representing 3 times out of 4 a character from a Disney cartoon, and well before the iconic santon, the bean was originally a gold coin for the wealthiest families, and more often a white bean for more modest people.

While today we cross our fingers to find the bean, even if it means breaking a tooth, in the Middle Ages, on the contrary, no one wanted to win the bean! Indeed, at the time, tradition dictated that according to a practice called “the king drinks”, the person who found the bean in their piece of cake had to treat the table by buying a drink for everyone seated at the table.

The bill could be steep, and the smart alecks were tempted to discreetly swallow the bean, and so, to avoid cheating, the white bean was gradually replaced by a porcelain figurine, certainly a little less digestible, but collectable!

End of the little story :)

Enjoy your food !

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