Brownies – no added sugar

*** Sugar free brownies ***
Dairy free, egg free and gluten free and sugar free

Ingredients

100g Sweet potato (peeled and chopped)
2 apples (peeled and chopped)
120g flour (I use gluten free flour, any flour will work)
30g cocoa powder
50g nut butter
20g dairy free butter

Method
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Boil the sweet potato and apples until soft and remove most of the water but leave about 2 tbsp of the water in the pot.
• Add the butters and let them melt.
• Puree with hand blender.
• Mix in the flour and cocoa powder, mix well. Put in baking tin but do not flattened down.
• Bake in oven for 25 minutes.

Alternatives

Add 50g dried raisins/dried fruit/dairy free chocolate chips add after flour & cocoa.
1 tablespoon of golden syrup/honey/maple syrup, add with the butter
Add 50g chopped hazelnuts, add with the flour

Vegan lemon cake

Lemon Squares
*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***
Low sugar
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275g self raising flour (I use gluten free flour)
100g caster sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 lemon zest and juice
100ml oil
170ml milk (I use rice milk)

*** Method ***

Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius
Sieve the flour, baking powder.
Add the sugar and mix well.
Add remaining ingredients and mix until smooth.
Line baking tray and pour in mixture.
Bake in oven for 18/20 minutes.

Vegan nutty chocolate cake

*** Nutty chocolate cake ***
Dairy free, soya free and gluten free

200g dairy free butter (I use Stork margarine)
100g caster sugar
100g cornflour
170g plain flour (I use gluten free)
30g cocoa powder

400g dairy free and Soya free chocolate
250g dairy free butter
1 tbsp golden syrup
50g walnuts (crushed)
50g cashews (chopped)
80g small marshmallows

*** Method ***

Base
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Cream the butter and sugar together
• Add the cornflour, flour and cocoa powder and mix well
• Press the dough into a lined tin.
• Bake for 15/20 minutes.
• Remove from oven and set a side to cool

Topping
• Melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup together over a low heat or gently in microwave
• Let it cool for a while and then add the nuts and half the marshmallows

• Place topping on base.
• Sprinkle with remaining marshmallows and some chopped nuts.

• Place in fridge to set

For these to be vegan, vegan marshmallows are required.

Apple muffins

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

Really moist buns

*** Ingredients ***

125ml golden syrup
80ml milk (any alternative milk)
60ml flavourless oil (sunflower oil, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil)
125ml yogurt (I use koko yogurt)
180g self raising flour (I use gluten free self raising flour)
1 tsp baking powder

1 medium cooking apple

** Method **

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
Whisk the golden syrup, milk, oil and yogurt together.
Add to the flour and baking powder.
Mix well.
Slice/finely chop the apple and fold into mixture
Put in bun cases and bake for 18/20 minutes. The recipe makes 10 muffins.

These freeze well and an easy snack.

Golden syrup

A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.

Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.

A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

My go to Birthday Cake

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free, nut free and gluten free ***

Chocolate cake

Ingredients

200g/2 cups gluten free self raising flour
50g/half a cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
100g/half a cup sugar
60ml/4 tblsp flavourless oil (sunflower/vegetable/rapeseed oil)
200ml/1 cup milk (any alternative milk)
20ml/1 tblsp/30g golden syrup or maple syrup or honey

Method

Preheat fan oven to 180C/355F.
Sieve flour, cocoa powder and baking soda together. Add the sugar.
In another bowl whisk the milk, oil and syrup together.
Add the liquid to dry ingredients and mix well.
Pour into lined or greases tin – 8 inch circular
Bake for 30 minutes.

If you double the quantities, you can make a sandwich cake. Put buttercream in the middle. Dairy free Butter cream

Or use a ganache to decorate Vegan Ganache

Alternatives

If you are using Plain gluten free flour, add 2 additional teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of bicarbonated soda and half of teaspoon of xanthan gum
Half teaspoon of xanthan gum can be replaced with a teaspoon of cornflour/cornstarch or potato starch.
Rice milk is best milk for vegan baking as it holds air better than other milks.
Recipe can be used for muffins. Bake for 18 minutes.

Raspberry muffins

****Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

Really moist buns

** Ingredients **

50g raspberries

125ml golden syrup

80ml milk (any alternative milk)

60ml oil

125ml yogurt (I use koko yogurt)

180g self raising gluten free flour

1 tsp baking powder

** Method **

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
Whisk the golden syrup, milk, oil and yogurt together.
Add to the flour and baking powder.
Mix well.
Fold in the fruit.
Put in bun cases and bake for 12/15 minutes.

Alternatives
– Add 50g strawberries

– Add 50g blueberries

– Add 50g dairy free chocolate

– Add 50g grated carrot

– Add 50g grated apple

– Replace 50g of the flour with cocoa powder

Golden syrup

A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.

Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.

A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

Simple moist muffins

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

Really moist buns

*** Ingredients ***

100ml golden syrup/maple syrup/corn syrup.
80ml milk (any alternative milk)
60ml oil
125ml yogurt (I use koko yogurt)
180g self raising flour (I use gluten free self raising flour)
1 tsp baking powder

** Method **

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
Whisk the syrup, milk, oil and yogurt together.
Add to the flour and baking powder.
Mix well.
Put in bun cases and bake for 18/20 minutes. The recipe makes 10 muffins.

For a cake, put in cake tin and bake for 30 minutes, test with skewer to ensure its cooked through.

For a sandwich cake, double the amount and fill with vegan butter cream. Dairy free Butter cream

Golden syrup

A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.

Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.

A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

Birthday cake – chocolate

Vegan Chocolate cake

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and wheat free ***

Ingredients

Dry ingredients

280g self raising flour

70g caster sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

Half teaspoon bicarbonate soda

Pinch of salt

Wet ingredients

375ml dairy free milk

120ml coconut oil melted

180ml apple puree

180ml golden syrup

2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar

Method

Preheat the oven 180 degrees Celsius.
Mix the dry ingredients together
Put the wet ingredients in a separate bowl and whisk.
Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients, mixing constantly.
Immediately put into lined cake tin (or split between 2 tins if you want to make a sandwich cake)
Bake for 28 minutes, less time if you bake in 2 halves (sandwich cake). Be careful not to over bake.

Simple Buns/Fairy cakes/cupcakes

*** Simple plain buns ***

Dairy free, egg free and gluten free

Ingredients

250g/1&half cups gluten free self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

100g/half cup sugar

60ml/quarter cup flavourless oil (sunflower oil, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil)

200ml/three quarter cup milk (any alternative milk)

15ml/1 tbsp golden syrup/maple syrup

1 tsp cider vinegar

Half tsp vanilla essence

Method

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius

• Sieve flour and baking powder together. Add the sugar. Mix together.

• In another bowl whisk the milk, oil, vanilla, syrup and cider vinegar together. (this is really important)

• Add the liquid to dry ingredients and mix well but don’t over mix.

• Put in bun cases (makes 10 cupcakes) immediately and get them into the oven as quick as possible .

• Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 15 minutes.

If you double the quantities, you can make a sandwich cake, bake for 35/40 minutes. Put buttercream in the middle. https://freefromyummies.ie/2018/11/14/dairy-free-butter-cream/

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Golden syrup

A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.

Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.

A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

Vegan gluten free brownies

** Vegan gluten free brownies ***
Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free
Too tasty.

1 tbsp milled flaxseed
50ml lukewarm water
250g any plain flour (I use gluten free)
60g cocoa powder
200g caster sugar
150g brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
100ml milk (I use rice milk)
120ml water
280ml flavourless oil (sunflower oil, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil)

*** Method ***
• Mix the flaxseed and water and whisk, leave a side for at least 10 minutes
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Mix together the flour, cocoa powder, sugars, baking powder and salt (dry mix)
• In a separate bowl, put all the other ingredients along with the extra water and whisk well. (Liquid ingredients)
• Slowly add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Ensure it is mixed well.
• Pour into a greased baking dish.
• Baked for 30 minutes. Do not over bake, should still be soft in the middle.