Vegan Victoria Sponge

 The end of June is birthday time. Lots of us in my household have birthdays, including me. This last weekend was busy. I did a BBQ on the Saturday, and a roast dinner on the Sunday. (I went meatless) I made my first ever Victoria Sandwich on the Saturday, following the recipe in the Great British Vegan recipe book by Aimee Ryan. For a first effort I was pleased. It was easy to make and tasted lovely. My brother and his family came for a visit, and he is a Master Baker. It passed his test, so all was good 😊 The only real problem I had was that I didn’t have the right sized tins, mine were too small, so a lovely mess was left on my cooker base 🤪 I now have the right sized tins so I will probably make another one very soon.

Vegan Roast.

Tonight’s dinner was a roast. Vegan for me. I did a roasted cauliflower, nut roast, carrots, roast potatoes, cooked some frozen cauliflower and broccoli and tinned marrow fat peas (mainly for my son in law) Yorkshire puds and beef for the non vegan/veggies, and vegetable based gravy. I haven’t learned how to do vegan yorkies yet. I’ve found a recipe online, and I’m planning to do a trial run before doing them as part of the roast. My little grandson would be very disappointed if there wasn’t any yorkies 😊 

The cauliflower roast was taken from Slimming Worlds Curry Club cook book, a little tweaked by me, and the nut roast from Goodtoknow website. Though I’m not sure they still have that particular recipe on it anymore.

The outside leaves of the cauliflower roast were cooked up, now frozen, and will form part of a soup at some time. The cooking liquid saved to cook the potatoes, then the carrots in. It then became our gravy with some onion gravy granules thickening it.

My non vegans enjoy the vegan options as well 😊

Pie's using left over mincemeat casserole.

Little jam pasty made with pastry scraps, my 18yr old loved it lol

My mum to be cakes :-)

Using up some surplus bread

Bread and Butter Pudding. Yum!!

Cheese Flan

A cheese flan I baked for dinner  recently.

Guilt free cake

A nice guilt free cake. This one I made last year, but I made one the other day which hubby and I have been enjoying for our dessert

More baking

As one of my sons used to say. "You can't call it homemade bread. It's bread made at home in a machine :-)

Todays bakeoff

So, I've been busy in the kitchen today. One cherry cake, one fruit cake, two banana cakes, one white Victoria Sandwich, one chocolate Victoria Sandwich, a batch of cookies and  chocolate krispie bars :-)

Krispie bars

Krispie bars