Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Vegan decadent chocolate cake recipe

Here is a recipe I made for a vegan persons birthday!

120g banana
100g oil
Few juicy dates
200 g sugar
100g melted dark chocolate
A double espresso
1 tbsp cocoa
300 g flour
1/2 tsp xantham gum
3 tsp baking powder

Method.
Combine all but last 3 ingredients and mix really well.
Add rest of ingredients then if too dry add soy milk to a wet cakey batter.
Cook til a knife comes put clean when poked in the middle. (180 degrees)

Icing.
Mix 2 tbsp cocoa, 4 tbsp icing sugar and soy milk together til smooth then smooth over chilled cake.

Enjoy! This works well with any milk alternative :)


Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Tasty, quick and easy sweet carrot snack.

Here is a delicious healthy snack for those times when you crave a little sweet treat.
Simply grate some carrots, heat in a pan with raisins and cardamon til softened but not mushy.
Dry fry nuts and seeds of your choice.
Combine all together and drizzle with honey or agave!
Enjoy this wholesome tasty snack!

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Thai prawn and noodle Laksa recipe!


The other evening I decided to cook this for my auntie and niece.
They were both impressed, its very delicious and full of wholesome ingredients.

♥Fry some onion and green thai paste in a pan. Add more garlic or ginger here if you wish.
♥Add coconut milk, fish stock and noodles and cook til noodles have softened
♥Add prawns and simmer for two minutes
♥Add pak choi, beansprouts and spring onions, wait two minutes
♥Add coriander and lime and serve!


 kitchen helper optional but recommended :)

Monday, 2 January 2012

Carrot and Coconut Cake Recipe.

Here's a recipe for this delicious and healthy carrot cake with no added fat or sugar!
Full of tasty little chunks, these are a joy to eat.
Coconut milk is used because the containing oil helps remove excess fat from your body!
This makes a lot - enough for 12 muffins and some left over for a small loaf tin.
Or you could use a large cake tin.

Ingredients
450g grated carrots
100g desiccated coconut
50g seeds of your choice
100g chopped dates
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tin coconut milk
250g agave necter or honey
5 eggs
300g self raising wholewheat flour

Method
Combine first five ingredients in a bowl.
In a seperate bowl, mix the next three ingredients then add to the first bowl of carrotty yumminess
Add the flour, stir well.
Bake at 180 degrees until cooked (various tins require different cooking times)