Eat For You Dietitian

Successes and work in progresses

All my baking since the beginning of 2017 has been without any animal products.

My primary go-to baking items:

Almond milk

Vegetable oil

Ground flaxseed

Maple syrup

Dairy-free spread

Vegan Chocolate cake and Vegan Banana Bread with vegan chocolate frosting. So simple and quick.

The chocolate cake I made was for my nephews 2nd birthday. Coincidently me and my sister made cakes that looked identical (although hers wasn’t vegan). Both covered in chocolate frosting and colourful sprinkles. Granted her icing and sprinkles was neater but it was freaky!

Recipe I used was by BBC Good Food, although I swapped cider vinegar for white wine vinegar as I couldn’t find it in the local shop. The end result tasted yummy although due to my poor timing and rush to get to my nephews birthday party when it came to slicing the cake I thought it could of used more time in the oven. The middle was gooey so I left that part out when I served. The rest of it was super moist and chocolatey! Definitely one I’ll be trying again.

Banana Bread – How has this been my first time baking this. During all these snow days I had to treat myself to something delicious. All recipes I looked up used 3 large bananas, whereas I only had 2. So I just went with it and it turned out pretty good.

My recipe:

2 mashed bananas

3 tablespoons of rapeseed oil

100g granulated sugar

225g plain flour

3 heaped tsp baking powder

3 tsp cinnamon

1.       Heat oven to 180 degrees celcius.

2.       Mix all the ingredients together.

3.       Bake in a greased, loaf tin for 20 minutes. Check and if it is browning cover with foil and bake for a further 20 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

4.       Let cool and then I covered in chocolate frosting

The chocolate frosting I had was leftover from the previous cake as I wasn’t able to put any in the middle due to only having one cake tin and time constraints. It tasted delicious on banana bread though!

Other examples is my cookies with organic cacao nibs someone gave me. Apologies I never got a photo of the finished product.

My next one to try is Vegan Victoria Sponge Cake (with homemade chia raspberry jam).

If I can, you can.