Fat Friday #48 Laura's Vegan Banana Cake

Many thanks to friend and worker Laura who gave me permission to pop this recipe on the blog. She's constantly baking vegan friendly sweet-treats for us girls at work and she made this amazing banana cake! I needed the recipe in my life! It turns out that this is an all in one recipe, so its minimal effort.

Recipe  Vegan Banana Cake-kindly provided by Laura (Many thanks):

• 100g Vegetable spread (such as flora)
• 10ml sunflower oil
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 200g self raising flour
• 2 bananas 
• A handful raspberries

Equipment:

• Bowl
• Wooden Spoon
• Loaf tin greased and lined with silicone paper
• wirerack 

Method:

1)Pre-heat oven to GM 4/ 180c/350f. Grease and line the loaf tin. 

2)Throw all the ingredients into a bowl and mix until all combined together. Seriously, thats it!

3)Pour the batter into the loaf tin and pop in the oven for about 50 minutes or until the top is golden or until you can put a toothpick into the centre, so it comes out clean. 

4)Let this cool on a wire rack until completely cold.

Thank you again for letting me post this recipe Laura. Happy Friday Folks!

Fat Friday #4 Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

Its the end of the working week and you know what that means right? You don't? Well here on Cupcakes, Cake and Passion its my favourite day of the week its Fat Fridays!! The only place to gorge yourself with 'good for the soul' food. This week its a pretty simple recipe, all the credit goes to Mary Youngkin, who writes Barefeet in the Kitchen Blog, for coming up with this amazing recipe. I've just translated the recipe from cups to grams. These cookies are accidently gluten-free and are full of peanut butter. I mean this is peanut butter on steroids. Its peanut butter overload....What I'm trying to say is its reallllllyyyyy peanut buttery.  

 

Also another bonus for these cookies is that they take 5 minutes to make and about 20 minutes to bake. 25 minutes, so you've got no excuse not to bake!



    

Recipe: Makes 18 cookies (Recipe Adapted from Barefeet In The Kitchen)

• 1 egg 
• 250g Smooth peanut butter
• 200g Golden caster sugar

Equipment:

• Bowl
• Wooden spoon
• Baking sheet lined with silicone paper
• Fork
• Wire rack

1. Preheat the oven to 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4. Line the baking sheet with silicone paper.

 2. Mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl with a wooden spoon, until smooth .

3. Smooth into 18 small balls and place on the baking sheet. 

4.With fork press down gently in one direction. 

 

5.Press the fork in the other direction to create a criss cross pattern.

6.Bake for in the oven for 22 minutes until firm but not crispy. Leave on the tray for about 3 minutes and transfer to a wire rack.

Have a great weekend and Happy Baking!