Vegan Mini Egg Easter Cookies

Prepare to get messy with these soft gooey cookies filled with the best Easter treats!

Lemon and Raspberry Layer Cake

A lemon-y sponge filled with a zesty buttercream and raspberry jam, and not forgetting the curd!

Another layer cake recipe coming to you featuring an amazing combination of lemon and raspberry. I really enjoy adding some texture into my sponges, whether its fruit, nuts or chocolate, I think it makes it interesting plus when I added the raspberries to the lemon sponge I just wanted the extra flavour. You don't even have to add the buttercream, jam or curd to this cake, but each addition really makes this cake pop!

Check out my other lemon recipes for more inspiration!

Lemon and Coconut Layer Cake

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon and Poppy seed Loaf Cake

Makes x3 8 inch cake layers 

Recipe:

Prep: 15 minutes

Cook: 30 minutes

Serves: 10

Ingredients

Cake

490g Self-raising flour

450g Caster Sugar

520ml Soya milk + 1 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

180g Vegan butter

3tsp Baking soda

2tsp Baking powder

Pinch of salt

300g Raspberries

Zest and juice of 2 lemon

3 tsp Lemon extract

Icing

400g Vegan butter

700-800g Icing sugar

1tsp lemon extract

Lemon curd 

4-6 tsp Raspberry jam

Raspberries for topping 

Method

✿Preheat your oven to 180℃ and line your cake tins with baking paper.

✿Melt your butter and then leave to cool. Add the ACV to the soya milk, stir and leave to curdle to create a 'buttermilk'.

✿In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour , sugar, baking powder, soda, salt and lemon zest. 

✿Add the butter, milk and lemon juice and mix together. Fold in the raspberries gently and evenly.

✿Pour into cake tins and baking for about 30 minutes until golden on top and a knife inserted comes out clean. 

✿Once baked, leave to cool in the tins and then turn out to cool completely. 

✿Make the lemon curd using this recipe.

✿Make the buttercream. Using an electric mixer, whisk the butter and until smooth and creamy about 5 minutes. ✿Gradually add the icing sugar about 100g at a time making sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Continue to add the sugar as much as needed for personal taste and then add the lemon extract and mix till fluffy.

✿To assemble the cakes, pipe or spread some buttercream on one layer around the edges, spread some lemon curd on top and then add 2-3 tsp of jam in the centre. Add another layer and repeat the process. 

✿Top with the remaining layer and pipe more buttercream and then add raspberries. Can be stored at room temp or kept in the fridge. Enjoy!

Christina 

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Vegan Layered Carrot Cake

Make my super easy layered carrot cake at home - perfect for Easter and Spring time!

Blueberry Pancakes

Only 6-ingredients to make these fluffy blueberry pancakes - perfect for breakfast when you've got more time!

I love pancakes especially fruity ones, I think they need some extra sweetness and blueberries are perfect for that. I was really impressed with myself at how easy this recipe came together and pancakes shouldn't be difficult; especially with only 6 ingredients that are accessible if you haven't already got them in your cupboards, they're easy to find in any supermarket. The best thing about these is that you can swap out the blueberries for other berries as they will also work perfectly, I'm sure strawberries or raspberries would taste magnificent! And for me it wouldn't be a pancake stack without a big drizzle of maple syrup! How do you like your pancakes? 

And whilst you're here for pancake day or need pancakes for breakfast....

Check out my other recipes for more inspiration!
Cinnamon Apple Pancakes

Banana Pancakes
Peanut Butter and Raspberry Pancakes

Recipe

Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 5 minutes
Serves: 8-10 pancakes

Ingredients

140g Self-raising flour
50g Porridge oats or more flour

340ml Soya milk

30g Chia seeds + 60ml water (chia egg)
2tsp Maple syrup + more for serving

100g Blueberries + more on top

Method

✿Add all ingredients (except for the blueberries) into a blender and blend till you have a smooth batter. 

✿Leave for 5-10 minutes to allow the chia seeds to thicken. 
✿Then stir in the blueberries into the batter. 
✿On the hob, heat a large non-stick frying pan and add about 2 heaped tbsp of pancake batter to form one pancake keeping it in a circle. I could fit about 2-3 pancakes at a time in my pan but if yours is big you could add more or do one at a time if you only have a small frying pan. 
✿Fry the pancakes for about 2 minutes before flipping to cook the other side. You'll know when to flip as the top will start to form small bubbles and you will be able to slide around the pan.
✿Once cooked set aside to continue to cook the rest of the pancakes until the mixture is gone. I managed 10 medium sized pancakes but you can make them larger or smaller. 
✿Stack your pancakes, add more blueberries and drizzle with maple syrup to finish. Enjoy!

Christina

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German Chocolate Cake

Chocolate sponge with a caramel-ly, coconutty, pecan-y filling!