Bake Like A Vegan

Sunday, 29 March 2020

Vegan Mini Egg Easter Cookies

Prepare to get messy with these soft gooey cookies filled with the best Easter treats!

Lemon and Raspberry Layer Cake

A lemon-y sponge filled with a zesty buttercream and raspberry jam, and not forgetting the curd!

Another layer cake recipe coming to you featuring an amazing combination of lemon and raspberry. I really enjoy adding some texture into my sponges, whether its fruit, nuts or chocolate, I think it makes it interesting plus when I added the raspberries to the lemon sponge I just wanted the extra flavour. You don't even have to add the buttercream, jam or curd to this cake, but each addition really makes this cake pop!

Check out my other lemon recipes for more inspiration!

Lemon and Coconut Layer Cake

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon and Poppy seed Loaf Cake

Makes x3 8 inch cake layers

Recipe:

Prep: 15 minutes

Cook: 30 minutes

Serves: 10

Ingredients

Cake

490g Self-raising flour

450g Caster Sugar

520ml Soya milk + 1 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

180g Vegan butter

3tsp Baking soda

2tsp Baking powder

Pinch of salt

300g Raspberries

Zest and juice of 2 lemon

3 tsp Lemon extract

Icing

400g Vegan butter

700-800g Icing sugar

1tsp lemon extract

Lemon curd

4-6 tsp Raspberry jam

Raspberries for topping

Method

✿Preheat your oven to 180℃ and line your cake tins with baking paper.

✿Melt your butter and then leave to cool. Add the ACV to the soya milk, stir and leave to curdle to create a 'buttermilk'.

✿In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour , sugar, baking powder, soda, salt and lemon zest.

✿Add the butter, milk and lemon juice and mix together. Fold in the raspberries gently and evenly.

✿Pour into cake tins and baking for about 30 minutes until golden on top and a knife inserted comes out clean.

✿Once baked, leave to cool in the tins and then turn out to cool completely.

✿Make the lemon curd using this recipe.

✿Make the buttercream. Using an electric mixer, whisk the butter and until smooth and creamy about 5 minutes. ✿Gradually add the icing sugar about 100g at a time making sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Continue to add the sugar as much as needed for personal taste and then add the lemon extract and mix till fluffy.

✿To assemble the cakes, pipe or spread some buttercream on one layer around the edges, spread some lemon curd on top and then add 2-3 tsp of jam in the centre. Add another layer and repeat the process.

✿Top with the remaining layer and pipe more buttercream and then add raspberries. Can be stored at room temp or kept in the fridge. Enjoy!

Christina

Double Chocolate Cookies

Gooey melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cookies, perfect for dunking!

Carrot Cake

Make this super easy carrot cake at home - perfect for Easter and Spring time!

Manchester Tart

Custard filled pastry dessert with hidden berries and coconut!

6 Ingredient Coconut Chocolate Macaroons

Light and fluffy coconutty biscuits dipped in chocolate!

What are macaroons? Are they a biscuit? A cookie or are they like jaffa cakes where there is endless controversy? All I do know is that they are so yummy and one just won't suffice, you need to eat the whole box. It's optional to add the melted chocolate and they taste amazing without but why miss out on extra chocolate, dip them in! These macaroons barely take any time at all, you'll have a delicious batch of them in 30 minutes :)

Check out my other bakes for more inspiration!
Banoffee Pie
Coffee and Walnut Cupcakes
Blueberry Almond Flapjacks

Recipe

Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes
Serves: 12

Ingredients

280g Desiccated coconut
50ml Coconut oil melted
60ml Maple syrup
70ml Aquafaba (from a can of chickpeas)
25g Cornflour
100g Vegan dark chocolate melted optional

Method

✿Preheat your oven to 190℃ and line a baking tray with baking paper.
✿Add the coconut to a food processor and pulse till it starts to stick together - about 1 minute.
✿Add the coconut oil, maple syrup and aquafaba and blend till combined. Then add the cornflour an keep blending till a sort of dough has formed and it sticks together.
✿Using an ice-cream scoop or your hands, form little balls of the mixture and place on the baking tray evenly spread out making sure to be gentle.
✿Bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown checking half way. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
✿Once they have cooled completely, melt your chocolate in the microwave and then dip the bottoms of the macaroons in the chocolate. Drizzle the leftover chocolate on the top.
✿Keep in a covered container at room temp. Enjoy!

Christina