This Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Cake is a mixture between my Chocolate Hazelnut Cake and Chocolate Truffle Cake! This delicious cake consists of a fudgy, hazelnut-infused, deeply chocolatey sponge made extra indulgent by lashings of Sweet Potato Chocolate Buttercream. The grain-free sponge is a simple affair made using ground hazelnuts for Nutella-like flavour, and is naturallyRead more
This Homemade Domino’s Pizza Garlic Herb Dip is so easy to make and tastes like the real deal, with a fraction less of the guilt. I was thinking about Domino’s Pizza’s Garlic and Herb Dip the other day, and decided to recreate the flavours at home! I used blended cashew nuts, as I love how deliciouslyRead more
These Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles are luxuriously creamy, insanely moreish and undetectably dairy-free! Just like these other vegan chocolate truffles I posted a while ago, these are made with a simple base of blended soaked nuts, cacao butter, cocoa powder, your sweetener of choice, vanilla and a pinch of salt! Not too many ingredients andRead more
Sinfully decadent yet unbelievably healthy, this Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Truffle Cake is guaranteed to be your new favourite dessert! With Easter just round the corner, I thought it was the perfect time to post a recipe for an indulgent chocolate cake based on my latest obsession: truffles. Just like my chocolate truffles, this cake is beautifully rich andRead more
I really hope you’ll love these Gluten-Free Vegan Matcha Brownies! Or should I have called them Blondies? Or even Greenies? I’d been dreaming of a gluten-free and vegan matcha brownie recipe for ages and I think I’ve finally cracked it! The base for these amazingly fudgy, gooey brownies was inspired by one of my favourite chocolate cakeRead more
This Vegan Sweet Potato Chocolate Buttercream is perfectly sweet, luxuriously rich and creamy, and unbelievably healthy! It’s also refined sugar free and requires just 6 simple ingredients! One of my favourite sweet treats used to be a rich, chocolatey sponge layer cake enveloped in decadent chocolate buttercream frosting. Since going dairy-free, a lot of vegan buttercream recipes I’ve seen relyRead more
This undetectably vegan Spicy Miso Mayonnaise is easy to make, bursting with umami flavour, and irresistibly creamy. It all starts with some cashews, which are blended until thick, creamy and luxuriously smooth. I mentioned that I’d been experimenting with soaked cashews, which I love for making delicious sweet treats, as well as savoury sauces likeRead more
This Purple Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl is so easy to make and requires just 2 ingredients. It’s a beautiful lilac colour, a shade very rarely naturally found in the food we eat! It’s perfect for breakfast because the sweet potatoes will charge you with lots of sustainable energy to keep you fuller for longer. Just cookRead more
This 3-ingredient Kinako Latte is a great alternative to hot chocolate as it’s rich and comforting without being too sweet, and a fab caffeine-free option if you’re tired of herbal tea. Kinako, which means “yellow flour” in Japanese, is roasted soybean flour (so it’s gluten-free), and is widely used in Japanese cuisine. Kinako is traditionally used inRead more
After doing quite a few cookbook reviews for The Independent, I decided to do a post here about 30 Best Cookbooks 2016. This is by no means an objective list, I’m just listing some of my favourite new releases of the year. I’m posting this now, just before people start thinking about Christmas, because I know lots ofRead more