British café chain Patisserie Valerie just introduced a vegan brunch menu featuring several raw vegan cakes.
Patisserie Valerie, founded in 1926, has 96 locations across the UK. The chain’s new all-day brunch menu includes plant-based breakfasts and slices of raw vegan cake. The handmade desserts are made with seasonal ingredients and are free from gluten, preservatives, additives, soy, and refined sugar.
All the Vegan Options at Patisserie Valerie
1. Vegan Breakfasts
Madame Valerie’s Vegan Breakfast features mashed avocado and smoked houmous with harissa on organic bloomer toast. It also comes with grilled plum tomato, a flat mushroom, baked beans, and watercress topped with crushed chillies, pumpkin, and sunflower seeds.
The chain also offers vegan smashed avocado on toast topped with grilled tomato and paprika.
Patisserie Valerie’s porridge oats can be made with almond or soya milk. The vegan breakfast is served with maple syrup, bananas, and blueberries. The chain’s smoked houmous harissa croissant comes with char-grilled vegetables and is also free from animal products.
2. Superfood Salad
3. Vegan Chocolate & Raspberry Cake
This vegan chocolate and raspberry cake features “silky rich” raw cacao and a “luscious layer of tangy sweet fresh raspberry.” It’s made with cashews, almonds, dates, coconut, and maple syrup.
4. Vegan Chocolate Cake
Patisserie Valerie’s creamy vegan chocolate cake is a raw plant-based take on its best-selling Double Chocolate Delight.
“Dates give a lovely natural sweetness that replaces traditional cane sugar in this raw chocolate cake. High in minerals, potassium, chromium, magnesium, and iron, they give this beautiful cake an indulgent gooey texture, whilst the cacao, gives the cake its delicious rich depth,” explains Victor Masson, Patisserie Valerie’s pâtissier, on the Patisserie Valerie website.
5. Vegan Tiramisu Cake
The Patisserie Valerie vegan tiramisu cake is inspired by its Giotto tiramisu cake. The vegan version features rich cold-pressed coffee and raw cacao, a creamy walnut and almond base, and bold Italian flavours.
The company describes it as a “must for all coffee lovers.”
6. Vegan Strawberry Cake
This sweet treat is made with real fresh strawberries, cashews, dates, cacao butter, and lemon juice. It’s handmade in small batches with raw ingredients.
7. Vegan Orange & Turmeric Cake
Danielle Percy, Patisserie Valerie’s pâtissiere, describes this cake, “Not only will the beautiful, vibrant yellow of this cake put a huge smile on your face, it’s also packed with goodness and immune-boosting ingredients.”
The crunchy cacao base is topped with a creamy golden layer featuring freshly squeezed orange juice and antioxidant-rich turmeric. It’s decorated with almonds, orange peel, and dairy-free chocolate shavings.
8. Vegan Peanut Butter Cake
This vegan cake is a must-try for peanut butter lovers. It features crushed peanuts, pink Himalayan salt, maple syrup, and creamy peanut butter.
9. Vegan Pineapple & Matcha Cake
For a light and fruity cake, look no further than Patisserie Valerie’s Vegan Pineapple & Matcha Cake. It unites raw whole food ingredients like coconut, cashews, turmeric, and raspberries to deliver a sweet, creamy, and tropical treat.
10. Vegan Raspberry Cake
This cruelty-free cake is simple and sweet. The bright pink dessert offers light, fruity flavours.
11. Vegan Lemon & Blueberry Cake
This moist fruity cake sits atop a crunchy almond base. The sweet-smelling dessert includes fresh Mediterranean lemon and jammy blueberries
“The vibrant purple of the blueberry layer makes this cake visually striking. And the raw ingredients give it the same impact with its flavours!” says Charlotte White, Patisserie Valerie pâtissier.
12. Vegan Rainbow Cake
The Vegan Rainbow Cake is a 12-slice assortment of six of the café’s most popular vegan cakes. It features two slices of the following: Chocolate & Raspberry Cake, Chocolate Cake, Strawberry Cake, Vegan Orange & Turmeric, Peanut Butter Cake, Lemon & Blueberry Cake.
