The Chestnut Candle

This vegan lemon shortcake is light and sweet with a really zesty lemon filling. The shortcake is made with cashews, which make it soft and, along with the vanilla extract, give it a distinctive creamy flavour. Using cashews also means the recipe uses a bit less fat than it … [Read more...] about Vegan Lemon Shortcake

These vegan walnut date and chocolate cookies are a high-fibre take on a very dependable nut-based biscuit recipe that's really good for dunking in your tea. Ground walnuts and some wholemeal flour give them a wholesome speckled appearance. More chopped walnuts, along with … [Read more...] about Vegan Walnut Date and Chocolate Cookies

These vegan bakewell tarts have a soft raspberry, strawberry and frangipane centre and a light, crisp top. It's a recipe that takes one or two liberties with the traditional bakewell, including fresh strawberries and an unexpected ingredient in the form of white … [Read more...] about Vegan Bakewell Tarts

This vegan whole orange cake is very loosely based on a cake that featured on This Morning with Richard and Judy sometime in the 1990s. The charm of it is that you start off by boiling a whole orange in water before blitzing it in a food processor. In rethinking a recipe … [Read more...] about Vegan Whole Orange Cake

This simple vegan plum torte is a vegan interpretation of a recipe that was published in the New York Times every year from 1982 to 1989. I think the reason for its popularity, aside from the fact that it's a really easy and attractive cake to make, is that it was published at … [Read more...] about Vegan Plum Torte