This is a recipe for an easy-to-make vegan almond plum cake. I started out wanting to make an eggless almond yeast cake with Italian plums planted in it like the cake I remembered from my days as a daughter-in-law to a German-born Hausfrau (German-born AND a Lutheran Pastor's daughter). But my husband said he didn't particularly like the yeast cake. So, I found several recipes for vegan almond cake and this one most perfectly suited my available ingredients. I baked the cake in an 8'' x 8'' pan with parchment paper on it, in a counter oven. You could easily double the recipe and make it in a long pan in a regular oven. Preheat the oven to bake (350 F. for a large oven or 375 for a countertop oven) 1. Mix together in a measuring cup: 1/2 cup of soy, almond or other milk Juice of 1/2 lime, or lemon, or a teaspoon of Apple Cider Vinegar (Leave it to curdle for about 15 minutes and then add in 1/2 cup of maple syrup 1 teaspoon of Almond extract and stir to co
Yes these delightful-looking confections are Black Bean Brownies- moist, vegan (egg-free, gluten-free, dairy-free) There are several (thousand??) black bean brownie recipes on the web... this is my choice, an adaptation of the one by the Happy Herbivore . I use Maple Syrup (hey, I'm Canadian) instead of the agave syrup she uses. I also threw in some carob powder because it takes the edge off the bitterness of the cocoa, and is sort of like a light flour without actually being a flour (there are some who call chocolate "the poor man's carob" heheh). This is, in all, an easypeasy recipe and it tastes pretty good too: I used a Food Processor (you could also use a blender) Fit a sheet of parchment paper in the bottom of an 8"x8" cake pan, or grease it up. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C Put the following into the food processor or blender carafe: 2 ripe, peeled Bananas, in chunks 1 15-oz. can of Black Beans (or 1 19-oz. can of Black Beans, drained of all flui