Coffee And Cinnamon Cake (Vegan, Allergy Friendly, DF/SF/EF)

Hello everybody! Today I will show you how to make a coffee cake. I made one for my Grandad's birthday recently, and it was so fun and yummy! It was really interesting using coconut oil in a cake mixture, and it made it for a better texture than some other cakes we have tried. I think I will be trying it in some other recipes soon. 

Here  are the ingredients:-

• 350g of self raising flour. (This will work with a self-raising gluten free flour, as long as you add a teaspoon of xanthum gum to the recipe).
• 1 and a half teaspoons of cinnamon, and an extra half a teaspoon for step 4.
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda.
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder. (Gluten free if needed).
• Half a teaspoon of salt.
• 235g of sugar (We used 2/3 white, and 1/3 brown, to give a nice colour to the cake) 
• 150g of coconut oil (you could use a vegan margarine if coconut is not suitable for your needs) - mashed slightly so that it is soft but not a liquid.
• 240ml alternative milk - we used oat milk, but most others would work fine.
• 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
• 1 tsp of white wine vinegar. 
• 75 ml of very strong coffee.
• 80ml Coconut yoghurt, plain flavour - I am sure another dairy free yoghurt would also work fine.

For the topping use these ingredients:

• 70g of icing sugar approx
• 1 tsp water
• Half a teaspoon of vanilla extract

1. First of all, put all of your dry ingredients into a bowl and mix well.
2. Then, in a separate bowl, mash the coconut oil being careful not to melt it.
3. Put 3 quarters of the mashed coconut oil with the dry ingredients, and leave for the moment.
4. Put half a teaspoon of cinnamon with the remaining coconut and mix. Set this to one side.
5. In another bowl mix your alternative milk, coconut yoghurt, vanilla extract, white wine vinegar and strong coffee.
6.  Fold your wet mixture into your dry mixture.
7. Pour the whole cake mixture into a greased cake tin. Ours was a 20cm diameter cake tin.
8. Take the remaining coconut oil/cinnamon mixture and lightly flick small amounts over the top of  the cake. They coconut oil should sit lightly on top of the cake, hopefully not sinking to the bottom.
9. Cook it in a preheated fan oven at 160 degrees for about 50 to 60 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean.
10. Once the cake is cooked, let it cool completely before removing it from the tin.
11. Finally, combine your icing ingredients and drizzle over in your favourite pattern.

I hope that you enjoy it! 

Love from Princess E  x

Ratatouille - Allergy Friendly and Vegan.

Hi again. I hope everybody is OK, and looking forward to my latest blog post about how to make allergy friendly ratatouille! It was so much fun to make it, and so tasty!  Hopefully,it is going to work out great for you and your family too! 

Here are the ingredients that you will need:-

• 3 Really Big Tomatoes - you can use smaller ones, but you will need more of them then. I used beef tomatoes.
• 2 Large White Onions
• 1-2 Large Aubergines
• 2-3 Courgettes
• Garlic Oil Spray
• 1 Tin of Chopped Tomatoes
• Dairy Free Parmesan replacement. We used Violife Prosociano, but you could use another strong flavoured cheese replacement, if you prefer.

1. Chop all of your vegetables into slices.
2. Get a large oven dish and spray some garlic oil spray all over the bottom of the dish.
3. Pour in your chopped tomatoes. 
4. Organise the vegetables in the dish. You can arrange them in a lovely neat pattern if you want to. 
5. Spray a little garlic oil on the top of the sliced vegetables. Cover the ratatouille in foil.
   
6. Cook in the fan oven for about 45 minutes, at 180 degrees.
7. Take the dish out and cover it with a good layer of grated dairy free Parmesan. You MUST cover it back up with the foil before you return your ratatouille to cook in the oven for another 25 minutes or so. If you don't cover it with foil again your dairy free cheese will go crunchy.
8. Once it is cooked, it is time to eat!
9. Enjoy!

See, it is so delicious and so simple! By the way, next will be my amazing coffee and cinnamon cake post - that I designed for my Grandad's birthday! Hope you come back and look out for that soon. Have fun!

Love from Princess E! X