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August 18, 2021August 20, 2021

Vegan Sage and Onion Stuffing

This vegan sage and onion stuffing is easy to make and completely delicious!

Ingredients

6 slices of wholemeal bread (Orgran Rice Crumbs or gluten free vegan bread can be subbed for a gluten free version)
half a cup/85g/3oz of vegan margarine
4 teaspoons of dried sage or 8 of fresh, chopped sage
1 finely chopped large onion
salt to taste

Method

Melt the margarine in a saucepan and then cook the onion in it until soft. Break up the wholemeal bread with your hands (into fairly small pieces) and mix into the onion and margarine with the sage and salt.

This can be pressed into an oven-proof bowl for baking, or if you like meat analogues it can be sandwiched between two Turkey Style Vegan Roasts (available from GreenBay Vegan Supermarket and health food shops), wrapped in foil and baked in the oven!

If you liked out vegan sage and onion stuffing, check out all our other festive recipes here

‘Vegetarian Christmas’ by Rose Elliot. Not exclusively vegan but there is a plethora of vegan delights included and most of the lacto-ovo recipes are easily ‘veganisable’. Our favourite Christmas dinner of Chestnut and Red wine pate en croute is one of many included here along with lots of advice on taking the work out of Christmas catering. This book is full of ideas for lots of special touches which can be prepared early and frozen – a firm favourite. Now out of print but the hardcover is available cheaply from both UK and USA Amazons below and has lots of lovely photos throughout 🙂 We love this book so much we even wrote a blog post on it!
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May 31, 2021May 31, 2021

Vegan Cake Mix and Hazelnot Gnawbles

vegan chocolate cake mix from Creative Narure makes a wonderful cake!

The cake above was made with the cacao rich vegan cake mix from Creative Nature. The little round sweets are their Gnawbles which are basically vegan Maltesers!

The mix makes a gorgeous, sweet and luxurious cake – you just add oil and milk of your choice – and the Gnawbles are delightfully crunchy and delicious.

Creative Nature also make snack bars which are great too. See the whole range here. It includes many different types of vegan cake mix and numerous varieties of Gnawbles and bars. Particularly innovative is the Hazelnot flavour, containing no nuts.

Use code VEGANFAMILYHOUSE10 at the checkout for a 10% discount.

Everything is gluten free, vegan and nut free too.

cake made with a vegan chocolate cake mix from Creative Nature

See our chocolate page and cakes page for our own recipes.


  
    
    

    
      
      
      
      
      

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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 2, 2021February 2, 2021

banana raisin teabread (gluten and sugar free)

Teabread Ingredients:
250g of Doves Farm Gluten free Self Raising flour
1/4 teaspoon of xanthan gum (flour already contains some)
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
4 mashed bananas
2 generous tablespoons of coconut oil (melted)
300g of raisins
juice of one lemon
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
unsweetened soya milk to mix (quite a lot, flour is very absorbent)

Mix dry ingredients and then beat in the wet ones and fruit. Bake at 200C/400F for at least half an hour or until a skewer comes out clean.

Lovely with Booja Booja Vanilla ice cream or just with a bit of marg and a cup of tea.

Chocolate variation!! Add 50g of cocoa powder to the flour and liquidise 100g of pitted dates into some soya milk instead of raisins… delish 🙂

Enjoy this teabread after an icy loch-side walk… and see all our cake recipes here.

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