Sunday, 3 September 2017

Jaffa Cakes

Louise and I have been trying to eat more/mainly vegan food + with that comes trying some interesting vegan baking recipes! I personally prefer the ones without things like flaxseeds, aquafaba (chickpea water etc) even though I know this is only because I'm not used to them. (Gradually I'll try them out!)

Anyway, here's a vegan Jaffa Cake recipe. They're not very sweet because of the dark chocolate and orange marmalade combination but they look adorable.



Makes: 12 Jaffa Cakes
Ingredients:
100g self-raising flour
80g caster sugar
100ml soya milk
50ml rapeseed/other light and flavourless oil
1tsp vanilla extract

150g dairy-free chocolate
50g dairy-free margarine
zest of 1/2 orange
orange marmalade

Method:
1. Grease a bun tray and heat oven to 180C/gas mark 4
2. Mix together flour and sugar. Add oil, milk and vanilla extract.

3. Drop a spoonful of the mixture into each of the holes in the tray and bake for 8 minutes.

4. Remove from oven and leave to cool for 2 minutes before removing from the tray and leaving to cool completely on a wire rack



5. Melt the chocolate and margarine in a pan on a low heat, stirring constantly. Turn off as soon as the chocolate is all melted (you can add the orange zest here but we forgot and instead sprinkled it on top, which I think looks nice)


6. Spoon a teaspoon of marmalade onto the top of each cooled cake. Cover with chocolate and then refrigerate until solid.