Thursday, 16 April 2015

I'm switching from a blog to a website

I have enough recipes now so I've created a website with a really easy-to-navigate menu to make it much easier to find the recipes :)

http://janicepo.wix.com/the-allergic-vegan

Enjoy!

<3

Sunday, 5 April 2015

Raw Vegan Chocolate

This makes 15 little chocolate hearts (approx 120g of chocolate)

Ingredients:
50g Cacao Butter
2 Tbsp Coconut Sugar
6 Tbsp Cacao Powder
1 Tbsp Tahini
½ tsp Alcohol Free Vanilla Essence
Optional: 1 Tbsp dessicated coconut + 2 Tbsp cashews (chopped with a few pulses in the blender)
Optional: a drop or two of alcohol free peppermint essence
Optional: two or three goji berries per chocolate placed in the center

Directions:
Shave/chop and melt the cacao butter in a heatproof bowl inside a pan of water (I got an awesome chocolate making kit from Pick n Pay).
Cocoa butter melts at 34 °C (Do not heat it over 40 °C (104 °F) to keep it raw.
Add in the sugar as the cocoa butter starts to melt.
Once it is all melted together, add the tahini and any optional ingredients you plan on adding like coconut and cashews (NB except goji berries: those you drop into the individual chocolate trays).
Add the cocoa powder last and stir it all in together.
(if you have included cashews and coconuts pour it all into the trays asap)
(NB DO NOT FORGET to put the chocolate tray onto something that will keep it flat if you use a silicone tray)

FYI This recipe has been modified from a recipe I found online here. She's made a sweet little video.

Vegan, Wheat-free, sugar-free flapjacks (aka pancakes in the US)

This makes a stack of 8 or 9 little pancakes (flapjacks/crumpets to us in RSA or the UK)

Ingredients
1 large Banana
1/3 cup Wheat Free Flour
1 Flax Egg
1/3 tsp baking soda
1/3 tsp alcohol free vanilla essence
A dash of cinnamon
A dash of lemon

Instructions
Blend all the ingredients together

Scoop about a tablespoon of the batter per pancake and fry on a low heat so that the flapjacks cook through.

You can also leave them in the warming drawer to cook through fully.


Serving suggestion - topped with:
cinnamon, coconut sugar & lemon
syrup

tahini
with (n)ice-cream


Serve, eat, enjoy! :)