Anna & Arthur’s is a home-run business in Northern Ireland specialising in vegan-friendly baking mixes.
They kindly sent some to my house to try and just look how great this cake turned out!
I take no credit as my partner Gil did all the hard work. He said it was super simple to use and the cake baked to perfection.
I can attest to its deliciousness. I worked hard at eating it. That counts for something, right?
The other mixes I was sent were pancakes and seitan. The pancakes were flawless and we served them with vegan butter and fruit syrup. At time of writing we were yet to try the seitan mix.
These really are handy kits for people just getting into vegan baking.
I think the Anna & Arthur’s kits would be a great gift for a vegan in your life, no matter if they are well-seasoned like me or new to the lifestyle.
You can order directly from Anna & Arthur’s by messaging them via Facebook or Instagram. UK and Ireland shipping costs between £3 and £6 depending on how many packets you want!
Made in Hackney is a community kitchen running ongoing vegan cooking and food preparation classes.
You knew that, right?
One upcoming class I thought you all would be interested in is the Sourdough Bread Making Masterclass.
Date and Time – Saturday 14th September 2019 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Cost – £89 (£71 concession available) inclusive of VAT
The Event
“Bread makes itself, by your kindness, with your help, with imagination running through you, with dough under hand, you are bread-making itself, which is why bread making is so fulfilling and rewarding” – Edward Espe Brown, The Tassajara Bread Book.
“I’ll show you how to successfully bake your own delicious, nutritious loaves at home” Becca Dye, wholefood chef & baker.
This masterclass will include:
What is sourdough and how does it work?
Health benefits, costs, and how to choose your flour
How to create and maintain a sourdough starter, and fun ways to use excess levain
How to use bakers percentages and create and tweak your own formulas
Seeds, spices, soakers; working with flavoured doughs
Learn how to mix, fold, shape and bake a variety of doughs
Q&A session, sourdough 101 and trouble-shooting
A delicious organic plant based lunch, your own starter, recipes and bread to take home
Becca is a wholefood chef and baker, who has worked in top bakeries across Berlin and London, and currently bakes at social enterprise Better Health Bakery in Haggerston. Becca has a particular love for wholegrain baking, and utilising ancient varieties of wheat and freshly milled flour.
Fee: £89 (£71 Concession*) inclusive of VAT, includes a delicious organic plant based lunch.
This fee is used to fund programmes of free courses to vulnerable and low-income community groups. By attending a Made In Hackney masterclass you get a great day of learning AND you’re providing the charity with essential funds to continue their work with vulnerable community groups.
Concessionary rate available for students, pensioners, unemployed and low waged.
Click here to book your spot for the Sourdough Bread Making Class.
Click here to see other upcoming Made in Hackney masterclasses.
I just got the best kind of email you can hope to receive. It was all about vegan cake.
There is a gorgeous vegan baking business in London called Vegan Delice and what they are putting out into the world deserves to be celebrated.
Check out some of these treats.
I’m not sure about you, but there isn’t anything pictured above of which I wouldn’t eat at least two.
It’s all so dreamy.
I asked Chantal at Vegan Delice what goes on over at her baking headquarters and she said:
Passionate about the pleasure that my customers will feel when they are tasting my bakes, I ensure that the most important ingredient, ‘LOVE’ is always my present.
I take the time to make a lot of ingredients from scratch, such as my vanilla paste as its genuinely important to me that the products are 100% vegan, I also make my own raw chocolate that tastes similar to OMBAR (my inspiration) and I use this in a lot of my bakes to add a luxurious flavour.
I specialise in vegan cupcakes, doughnuts, cookies, as well as Cypriot style baked goods too. They are made from organic and locally sourced produce were available. I also include a sugar free, gluten free, and soy free range.
