These vegan rock buns are light, quick to make, and have lovely warm flavours of vanilla and apricot. Rock buns, or rock cakes, were promoted during the Second World War because they used fewer eggs than a sponge cake. This recipe takes that idea a step further by using no … [Read more...] about Vegan Rock Buns
Vegan Madeira Cake
Conventional madeira cake contains a huge quantity of butter and eggs. This vegan madeira cake is blissfully free from animal products while still having the rich texture and flavour you'd expect to find in a maderia cake. Essentially, it is a cake that manages to be both … [Read more...] about Vegan Madeira Cake
Gluten-Free Oat Biscuits
This simple and quick recipe for vegan, gluten-free oat biscuits uses a mixture of oats and cashew nuts. The nuts and half of the oats are ground to form a rough, sandy flour, which results in a light, crispy and slightly chewy biscuit. This is one of those occasions where … [Read more...] about Gluten-Free Oat Biscuits
Vegan Caramel Date Cake
Here is some wholesome comfort food for Veganuary in the form of vegan caramel date cake. It's a really simple traybake recipe, with a sticky caramel custard topping. Much of the sweetness is from dates - they're chopped in the cake and pureed in the topping. Alongside the … [Read more...] about Vegan Caramel Date Cake
Vegan Spiced Fruit Cake
The idea behind this vegan spiced fruit cake was to have a cake reminiscent of the flavour of German cakes and cookies like lebkuchen, but with the fruitiness and rich texture of a Christmas cake or black bun (I had intended to post this before New Year but ran out of … [Read more...] about Vegan Spiced Fruit Cake
