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Cakes

Vegan Lemon Cake

lemon-cake.jpgIngredients:

  • 275g Self Raising Flour
  • 200g Caster Sugar (+ 1 tbsp for topping)
  • 1tsp Baking Powder
  • Zest of 1 Lemon
  • 100ml vegetable oil
  • 170ml cold water
  • Juice of ½ lemon (+ ½ lemon for topping)

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 200C/ 180C fan oven/ Gas Mark 6.
  2. Grease and line a loaf tin.
  3. Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and zest in a large bowl.
  4. Add the juice, oil and water and mix thoroughly until smooth.
  5. Pour into the lined loaf tin and bake for 30mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
  6. Sprinkle 1tbsp caster sugar over the top of the cake.
  7. Pour remaining juice (½ lemon) over top.
  8. Leave to cool in the tin for 10mins then remove.

From BBC Good Food, adapted by Kim (@adventureandcake)

Desserts

Chocolate Mousse with Aquafaba

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chocolate mousseIngredients

  • 20ml or ½ cup of aquafaba — that is, about half the brine from a can of chickpeas
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 10g caster sugar (optional)
  • 75g dark chocolate without dairy (I used one from Lidl)

Makes enough for 2 decent portions.

Method

  1. Melt the chocolate carefully in the usual way (in a bowl over a pan of hot water).
  2.  Strain the chickpeas to get their water. Use an electric whisk, preferably in a food processor or other contraption, for 10-15 minutes, until the chickpea water has thickened and reached the ‘stiff peak’ stage (as you might call it with egg whites). You don’t need to worry about over-whisking, but it will likely take longer with a hand-held electric whisk.
  3.  At this stage, add the vanilla, and slowly add the sugar while whisking a bit more.
  4.  The chocolate should be cool now but still runny. Fold it into the whisked mix thoroughly with a silicone spatula, then pour into glass serving dishes.
  5.  Chill for 3 hours and serve.

Phil – impressivefood.wordpress.com

Cakes

Vegan Victoria Sandwich

victoria spongeIngredients:                  

Dry ingredients:

  • 3 cups of self-raising flour
  • 2 cups of sugar (can be less)
  • 2 teaspoons of Baking powder
  • Pinch of salt

Wet ingredients

  • 1¾ cups soya, almond or rice milk
  • 1 cup of oil (rapeseed or sunflower)
  • ¼ cup white or apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla or almond extract

Method:

  1. Whisk together the dry ingredients in one bowl.  Whisk together wet ingredients in another bowl.  Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and whisk until just combined.  Do not overmix.
  2. Pour into two 9” round cake tins, greased and lined.  Cook at 175c in a Fan oven for about 28 mins or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out almost clean.   Cool on a cooling tray and then fill with jam or jam and butter (vegan marg) cream.
  3. If not eaten quickly best kept in a fridge.

Sandy