Sunday Bake - Very Squishy Vegan Lemon Cake

This super juicy vegan lemon cake is part bake part pudding (warning its very gooey and delicious you'll need a fork to tackle it) and perfect as a Sunday afternoon treat.

You will need:

100g golden caster sugar

100g diary free margarine spread

220g self raising flour

2 tsp egg replacement powder such as Orgran

the rind of 2 lemons

100ml almond milk

the juice of 3 lemons

2 tblsp caster sugar for syrup

Pre heat your oven at 175oC. Whisk together butter and sugar and then add lemon rind. Sift flour and egg re placement powder in slowly mixing as you go. As the mixture thickens up pour in a little almond milk to make stirring easier. You don't have to use all the milk but just enough to get your batter to a thick pouring consistency. Grease and line a medium sized loaf tin and pour all of mixture in. Bake for 30 mins until cracked and dark brown on top. Once out of the oven pour over your syrup which is simply made by mixing 2 tblsp of sugar with the juice of 2 lemons (minus pips!) If you add the syrup whilst the cake is still hot the sugary goodness seeps through making a deliciously zingy and juicy top!

You'll need a fork to eat this one and a nice pot of Darjeeling tea. x

Inspiration - Pomp De Franc Cake Society

This weekend's Sunday Bake isnt strictly vegan or made by me but a very talented designer/maker/baker who I studied alongside at Brighton University a few years back! Katie Franklin owns the amazing bakery Pomp De Franc Cake Society in East London UK where she makes cupcakes inspired by catwalk collections and giant teared cakes which combine whit, whimsy and design savvy not to mention a celebrity clientele. Each cake big or small is a masterpiece! I'm sure if you asked nicely she'd create a vegan recipe.

 All images from http://www.pompdefranc.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/pompdefranccakesociety

Sunday Bake - Banana Cake

A nice simple recipe for using up those bananas that are a little too ripe to make smoothies...

You will need:

3 bruised black bananas

250g self raising flour

150g vegan sunflower spread

100g golden caster sugar

a nice loaf tin

sunflower for greasing the tin and flour to dust the tin.

For chocolate icing:

2 tblsp vegan spread

3 tblsp icing sugar

1 tsp cocoa

 Pre Heat the oven at 180oC. 

Blend the spread, 1 banana and sugar together in a bowl with a stick blender. In a separate bowl roughly mash the other 2 bananas and set to one side. Sift the flour into the wet mixture bit by bit folding in and then beating a ;little. Lastly stir in the mashed banana.

Grease and dust the baking tin or pan with flour and fill with the mixture leaving at least 1 inch at the top. Bake for 30/40 minutes. Prod with a skewer or knife occasionally to check the centre is cooked!

Once out of the oven leave to cool and then tip out and ice!

 (Comedy icing optional)

Sunday Bake - Very Chocolaty Cocoa and Brazil Nut Cakes (vegan)

Don't be put off by the petite portion size of these baked treats a small bite packs a seriously chocolaty punch!

You will need:

250g self raising flour

200g golden caster sugar

6 fl oz rapeseed oil
1oz cocoa powder
2tsp white vinegar
a handful of roughly chopped brazil nuts
100g 70% or 80% or other vegan dark chocolate

Melt your choc in a bowel over a pan of boiling water and set to one side. In a large mixing bowl beat together sugar and oil with a balloon whisk. Stir in vinegar. Next sift together cocoa and flour slowly folding in a little at a time. Once combined add melted chocolate and beat in for a minute. If the mixture is too thick pour in approx 100ml of warm water until you get a slightly thinner consistency. Lastly add chopped nuts.

Pre heat oven at 175oC. Now grease and line a deep muffin tray and spoon in the mixture until just below the top of the tine line. Bake for 20/25 mins and then leave to cool on the side for 5 mins. Using a sharp knife slice around the edges to free each cake from its mould and place on a plate to cool totally. Dust with a little icing sugar and eat. slowly as they are super rich!