Tasty vegan baking recipes (and Freya’s mixes)
Love baking? Then here are some super-simple vegan recipe books to try out, plus a wonderful brand of instant vegan baking mixes. If you know they’re coming, it’s time to bake a cake!
Use with silicone baking tools and pans.
Read up on food safety for people and pets. For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on upper cans to pinch rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.
Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.
Simply Vegan Baking (recipes by a Yorkshire lass!)
Simply Vegan Baking is a book by former Great British Bake-off contestant Freya, to show how familiar recipes can be made without eggs, dairy or butter. From simple cakes and traybakes and bread to desserts and showstopping cakes, the faff-free recipes include many traditional favourites like:
Recipes include:
- Lemon Rum Cake (above image)
- Oat Cookies
- Bakewell Tart
- Carrot Cake
- Banoffee Pie Slices
- Lemon Meringue Pie
- Cinnamon Rolls
- Salted Caramel Cupcakes
- Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake
- Black Forest Gateau
Who wrote this book?
Freya Cox became the first vegan contestant on the BBC Great British Bake-off. She has also recently launched her own brand of baking mixes (read more on that below).
Vegan Baking Made Simple (50 delicious recipes)
Vegan Baking Made Simple offers 50 recipes for incredible bakes and no-bakes. All simple-to-make, with affordable ingredients.
Learn to make:
- Banana Streusel Cake
- Earl Grey Blackberry Cupcakes
- Salted Caramel & Pear Cake
- Almond Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
- Pumpkin Caramel Cupcakes
- Coconut Pineapple Layer Cake
- Blueberry ‘cream cheese’ Bread
- Almond Chocolate Cupcakes
Who wrote this book?
Saloni Mehta is a pastry chef and food photographer. She divides her time between Chicago (US) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
Freyas simple-to-use vegan baking mixes
Freyas is a small brand of vegan baking mixes from a Yorkshire lass! There are four mixes that are all easy to make and bake. Two are for cookies, one is for sticky toffee pudding, but the final one is for lemon drizzle cake (England’s favourite!)
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, or with council.
Nearly all baking mixes in stores have animal ingredients, likely from factory farms. Although it’s good to bake your own cakes, if you don’t want to – this is the best brand around.
