Any vegan biscuit or cake recipes?

Ruth_honey

This is the first time I've started a thread of my own, so I hope I've found the correct section to post it in!
I have a friend who is vegan and I'd like to make her some biscuits, or maybe a cake for Christmas, but I've never tried to bake anything like this before. If anyone has any tried and tested recipes, I'd be a very happy bunny!

emilyt

Ingredients
6 oz vegan margarine
1 tbsp syrup
1 cup of each of plain flour, sugar, dessicated coconut, oats
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda dissolved in 2 tbsp hot water
Method
Melt the marg and syrup in a saucepan. Mix in the dry ingredients. Add bicarb and water.
Place 6 or 8 teaspoonfuls of the mixture on an ungreased tray and bake at gas mark 3, 170C until golden (10 to 15 mins). Cool slightly and remove to cooling rack.
Repeat until all the mixture has been used

I made these for my daughters friend who is vegan. My daughter is vegetarian. Might be worth googling to find some more.

Have a look here http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/vegetarian_and_vegan/veganbaking.shtml

Ruth_honey

Sounds yummy! And fairly easy too, which is good for me as I don't know what I'm doing, really...
One question, though. What syrup do you use? Is it golden syrup?
Thanks for the recipe!

Uniscots97

Vegan Chocolate indulgence cake:-

Ingredients:-125g soya margarine
300ml unsweetened soya milk (split into 250ml and 50ml quantities)
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
250g plain flour
50g cocoa
250g sugar
Toppings:-
Choose from Dairy-free chocolate, Vegan friendly cake covering (icing or frosting), chopped hazelnuts or walnuts or dried fruit......or any combination of them all!

Method:-

Pre-heat your oven to Gas Mark 4 (180 C). In a saucepan melt the soya margarine, syrup and 250ml soya milk. In the 50ml of soya milk measured out dissolve the bicarbonate. In a large bowl combine the flour, cocoa and sugar (sieve the flour to ensure no lumps). Fold in the melted mixture from the saucepan and finally add the bicarbonate/milk mixture. Fold in until all the ingredients are well mixed through.
Line a 20cm baking tin with baking paper or grease it with a little soya margarine. Pour the cake mixture into the tin and immediately place in the oven at Gas Mark 4 for 30 minutes. Once the cake has cooked for 30 minutes reduce the heat to 160 C for a further 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you have a fan-assisted oven reduce the oven temperatures by 20 C. Once cooked remove the cake from the tin and place on a wire rack to cool. Once cooled, the cake can be topped with dairy-free chocolate (this is lovely melted and drizzled over the cake) or any of the items I've mentioned.
If stored in an air tight container, this cake will keep for between 2-3 days.

If you are having trouble finding some of the ingredients try your local health food shop, I purchased all of mine from Holland and Barrett who have a very extensive range of vegan friendly products. I spent just under 6 pounds (GBP) on ingredients, so it didn't work out too much more than I would spend on ingredients for a non-vegan friendly cake.

Murrell

Just incase you wasn't sure..........PURE is a vegan margarine and is easily available at all the big supermarkets.

Hope this helps.

Sandra
vegan for life!

emilyt

Ruth_honey wrote: »

Sounds yummy! And fairly easy too, which is good for me as I don't know what I'm doing, really...
One question, though. What syrup do you use? Is it golden syrup?
Thanks for the recipe!

Yes i used golden syrup. They are very moreish.

Teria

The Vegan Society has some yummy cake recipes
http://www.vegansociety.com/food/recipes/cakes.php
but really any recipe can be "veganised", using egg replacer from the health food store (I use Orgran), soya or rice milk instead of dairy, and pure margerine instead of butter. I'm such a useless cook that I usually use my daughters usborne first baking book, but substituting these ingredients, everything comes out perfectly.
If you really want to spoil her, make her a vegan chocolate cheesecake. I made my dad one for fathers' day, it didn't last 5 minutes!

Ruth_honey

Thanks everyone! I'm looking forward to trying these recipes. May have a major baking session over the weekend.

suzywoozy_3

Any cookie recipe that doesn't have eggs in it can be vegan if you use pure/vitalite/some baking marge and use vegan chocolate if it need chocolate.

Teria

suzywoozy wrote: »

Any cookie recipe that doesn't have eggs in it can be vegan if you use pure/vitalite/some baking marge and use vegan chocolate if it need chocolate.

Not Vitalite, it's quite misleading, but it isn't suitable for vegans at the moment, though it's fine for anyone with a dairy allergy. I think they're working on it though.

all_change

Hello all,

Can anyone point me in the right direction for vegan biscuit recipes?

I'm hoping to take some into work before Christmas but want everyone to be able to eat them.

Help!

Many thanks