Vegan Recipe of the Week - Apple and Peach Cinnamon Crumble

                                  

There is nothing like a warm fruity crumble with custard or ice cream to make everything seem better. This one combines the tartness of apples with the sweetness of peaches for the perfect combo!

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

Topping:
225g Plain Flour
90g Caster Sugar
Pinch of Salt
1 tsp Cinnamon
115g Vegan Butter (I use hard Stork)
2 Tbsp Demerara Sugar

Filling:
3 Red Apples
2 Peaches or Nectarines
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Vanilla Paste
100g Soft Brown Sugar
100ml Water
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice

To Serve:

Vegan custard or ice-cream

Method:

Peel, core and chop the red apples into small chunks.

Peel the peaches and cut off the flesh into small pieces.

Put the rest of the filling ingredients without the fruit into a saucepan on a medium heat and stir until combined and the sugar has dissolved. Then add the fruit and very gently simmer for around 5 minutes until the apples are soft.

Put a lid on the saucepan and remove from the heat. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan. Meanwhile make the topping.

Sift the flour into a mixing bowl, then add the caster sugar, salt and cinnamon. Stir to combine.

Cut the cold vegan butter into chunks and rub them into the dry mixture until you have a breadcrumb consistency.

Spoon your fruit filling into an oven dish and then sprinkle liberally with the crumble topping. Sprinkle the demerara sugar over the top on and bake in the centre of the oven for 25 minutes.

Remove from the oven and serve hot with vegan custard or ice cream.

Eat and Enjoy!

What are your favourite pie and crumble fillings? Let me know in the comments below.

Big Vegan Love,

VVx

Vegan Recipe of the Week - Vanilla Rock Cakes

Being vegan doesn't have to mean missing out on a lovely cakes with afternoon tea, as this vegan twist on the classic rock cakes/rock buns shows. 

Makes 12 cakes.

Ingredients:

250g self raising flour
90g caster sugar (plus extra for dusting)
90g of vegan butter
1tsp cinnamon
100g raisins
4 Tbsp vanilla soy milk (or regular sweetened soy milk and a teaspoon of vanilla essence)
Frylight

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180C (160C Fan).

Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and stir in the caster sugar.

Cut the butter into cubes and rub into the flour and sugar mix using your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

Next add the cinnamon and raisins and stir through the mix.

Slowly add the vanilla milk a little at a time until the mixture comes together into a soft dough.

Spray a baking sheet with Frylight and divide the mixture into 12 balls and place on the baking sheet.

Bake in the centre of the oven for around 10 minutes until they are golden and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool. Sprinkle with caster sugar whilst still warm. Best eaten within 48 hours.

Eat and enjoy!

VVx

Vegan Recipe of the Week - Iced Cinnamon Rolls

I don't know about you but to me nothing beats a warm sugary cinnamon smell of baking on a cold January morning :-) I love cinnamon rolls and wanted to veganise them, so here is my recipe. I tried these out on non-vegans and they couldn't tell! Winner!

Makes 12-16 Rolls

Ingredients:

350ml non dairy milk - I used organic unsweetened soya milk

1 1/2 Tbsp cyder vinegar

60ml tepid water

14g instant dried yeast

2 Tbsp of melted vegan butter

60ml light rapeseed oil

540g plain flour

1 tsp of sea salt

300g light brown sugar

115g vegan butter, softened

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

1 1/2 tsp vanilla paste

Frylight

For the icing:

Sieved Icing Sugar

Tepid Water

Method:

In a saucepan, combine the soy milk and cyder vinegar and leave for 15 minutes to sour. This will make your buttermilk.

In a mixing bowl dissolve the dried yeast into the tepid water and also leave for 15 minutes until creamy.

Heat the buttermilk gently and add the melted butter and rapeseed oil, stir and take off the heat when warmed through. Then pour this mixture into your mixing bowl with the yeast/water mixture and stir well.

In another mixing bowl sieve the flour, salt and bicarb, then add the dry mixture to the wet mixture slowly and combine until the mixture forms a dough. Lightly knead the dough and then leave the dough in the mixing bowl with a clean tea towel over the bowl for 20 minutes to prove.

In a saucepan, melt the remaining vegan butter, then add the sugar, vanilla paste and cinnamon to make your cinnamon filling.

Lightly flour a worktop and turn out your dough. Roll the dough with a rolling pin into a large rectangle shape. Spread your cinnamon filling over the top of the dough and then roll into a log, pinching the dough at the end to seal the filling.

Cut the log into 12-16 discs around an inch thick and place onto a greased baking sheet. I just spray mine with Frylight.

Cover the tray with a tea towel and leave to prove for another 40 minutes.

Meanwhile preheat the oven to 200C (180C Fan).

Bake the rolls in the oven for around 20 minutes until golden brown. Remove and leave to cool for 10 minutes before icing.

In a small dish sieve icing sugar and add tepid water a little at a time to make a thick, but pourable water icing. Drizzle the icing liberally over the cinnamon rolls and leave to set.

Eat and Enjoy!

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Big Vegan Love,

VVx