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March 21, 2021March 21, 2021

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake:

Ingredients:
300g Doves Farm Gluten Free Self Raising Flour
100g. caster sugar
100g of cocoa
2 large heaped tablespoons of coconut oil (it’s solid in this country)
1 small courgette or half a large one (yes you did read that right, it’s not a mix up with a pasta sauce recipe!)
2 tablespoons of golden linseeds
soya milk, rice milk or water to mix
a teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 tablespoons of golden syrup
100g walnuts (optional)
dash of vinegar

Mix your dry ingredients together. Melt your coconut oil (if in a cold climate!). In a blender combine the courgette and linseeds with a bit of soya milk until fairly smooth (doesn’t matter if some small lumps). Combine the coconut oil, linseed/courgette goop, golden syrup and vanilla and beat until nice and smooth adding as much soya/ricemilk or water as you need for a good batter. Add walnuts if using and finally a dash of vinegar, well mixed in, before going in the oven at 200C/400F for about half an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Pictured cake is iced with chocolate fudge icing and decorated with whizzers chocolate beans.

Chocolate Fudge Icing or soft chocolate fudge:

Vegan smarties to go on gluten free chocolate cake

Ingredients:
A 100g. bar of chocolate of your choice
1 tablespoon of vegan margarine
a tablespoon of icing sugar
1 teaspoon of golden syrup
optional additions for fudge: chopped nuts, raisins, mint, vanilla or almond essence, crumbled biscuit pieces

Melt everything together slowly in a small saucepan. For icing: leave to cool, stirring occasionally. Once it reaches a good spreading consistency, ice the cake and leave to set completely. Vegan chocolate beans are go again – from health food shops or here on Amazon

For Fudge: Add your nuts etc. if using and pour melted mixture into a dish that leaves it at least 1cm. thick. Set in fridge and then cut into squares.

See our other cake recipes here.

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February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

Choc Hotlate and The Contented Vegan

Gorgeous Choc Hotlate, a recipe for hot chocolate topped with ice cream, from the equally gorgeous book The Contented Vegan. What could be better on a snowy day?

The book is a satisfyingly chunky hardback with lots of beautiful full page colour photos that reminded me of when my son was a toddler and used to like to look at recipe books. He would point at each picture and say ‘Nums!’ Well, there’s lots to say ‘nums’ about in this book.

Written by a chef who has been vegan for over 30 years, the pages are bursting with great advice for people starting off on the vegan journey and those who’ve been on it a while.

I enjoyed the section on raising vegan children and it also brought back memories. The author advises trying to make the food to be eaten with other children as ‘normal’ as possible. I recall planning such a meal and getting my daughter to check that her friend liked spaghetti, thinking a nice Bolognese style sauce would go down well. Indeed, the initial report came back positive. But I will never forget the look of sheer horror on the child’s face when presented with a bowl of spaghetti and sauce.

‘What is this?’ she asked.

‘Spaghetti,’ said I.

‘But spaghetti comes in orange juice.’

Luckily I did have a tin at the back of a cupboard, so all was well!

Recipe sections include breakfast, snacks, lunch, suppers, family dinners and feasts and celebrations. We’ll be trying the Winter Solstice Pie and the Fennel and Pepper Presto has caught the eye too. In fact I can tell it’s a book of nums that will be dipped into often over many years.

It’s snowing again, may have to make more Choc Hotlate!

a snowy path, time for more Choc Hotlate?

See our main books section here, also books for kids and the book tag of the blog.

November 16, 2020November 17, 2020

Vegan Advent 2020: toys, traditional and chocolate

The shops are full of vegan festive products now, including Vegan Advent Calendars. Long gone are the days when we excitedly told other vegans about the one and only dairy free calendar that you got by ordering online and paying twice what the dairy ones cost… and it always arrived with all the chocolate having fallen out 😀

There are still some that are worthy of a wee mention here though…

Playmobil do a lovely range of toy calendars with great scenes to build up day by day from traditional Nativity to dragons, unicorns, pirates and Santa’s workshop. We loved these when the kids were, well, kids, and frankly wish we still had an excuse to buy them.

Then there’s this White Chocolate Moo Free Vegan Advent Calendar available from Ethical Superstore (see all the Vegan Festive Food at Ethical Superstore here). This calendar and others are also online at GreenBay Vegan Supermarket here.

White Chocolate Vegan Advent Calendar from Moo Free

Lego also have a nice selection, some sweet and Christmassy, others less so!

You can also go traditional with little pictures or fill your own own reusable calendar with pockets!

Traditional Advent Calendar with pictures

The picture below is of mini gluten free chocolate logs, recipe here

Don’t miss our main Christmas section with lots of recipes and gift ideas here

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019

All the Vegan Food!

Big breakfast from the 100% vegan Bonobo Café in Aberdeen.

The famous/infamous Greggs Vegan Sausage Roll above… Easter goodies below:

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019

Truffles and Trees

These are from a Tesco Finest Free From Salted Caramel Easter Egg, which is a bit of a mouthful, but a delicious one! A bit of a jump too, from what was available in supermarkets last year, with those white chocolate truffles.

Despite what the blog might suggest, we haven’t just been living on Easter chocolate and trying to claim it as ‘seasonal eating’. Soup is such a staple just now as we come to the end of winter. See our page of soups here.