Vegan Orange and Banana loaf cake

I adapted this recipe by adding two mashed ripe bananas at the end of this

https://bakewithshivesh.com/vegan-orange-loaf-cake/

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• zest of one orange
• a pinch of salt
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup organic white sugar
• ½ cup fresh orange juice
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• ¾ cup hot water
• ADD two ripe mashed bananas

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C and prepare a loaf pan.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk to combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and orange zest.
3. In a large bowl combine, both the the sugars, orange juice,vegetable oil and water.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and ADD mashed bananas. Fold to combine. Do not over mix.
5. Pour the batter into the loaf tin and bake at 180C for 30-40 minutes

Maybe go easy on the white/caster sugar; a quarter cup will be enough, and I cooked 30mins at 180 degrees Celsius then 10mins at 160C.

Frankie's Pikelets

Feeding a 10month old banana porridge was proving to be messy and challenging, particularly because the little person is determined to feed himself. So I decided to turn his porridge into pikelets and let him munch on them on his own terms. 

To give him a bit more protein and omega 3 I've added a few extra nuts and seeds. This recipe makes about 12 little piklets so there's plenty to feed us too :) They're definitely worth eating even if you don't have a small human to feed!

Ingredients

1/3 cup of oats (could use quinoa flakes instead or as well but I haven't tried this yet)

1/2 tbs chia seeds (you could add some flaxseeds too)

10 almonds

10 cashews

1 banana

1/2 to 2/3 cup of water (could use a plant or nut milk)

Handful of blueberries 

Method

Put oats, nuts and seeds in a blender and wizz until fine - the consistency of almond meal or finer.

Add banana and water and blend until smooth - start with the 1/2 cup of water then add more if needed.

Add the blueberries and pulse through so they remain chunky.

Heat a pan with a little coconut oil or similar or nothing if your pan is super dooper nonstick etc. Once your pan is ready pour piklet sized amount of batter into your pan and cook until bubbles start to appear and they are getting brown on the bottom then flip and cook for maybe another minute or 2 until brown. My belief is that cooking pancakes and pikelets is all intuition and no science so good luck with the cooking process!

A cheat's chocolate, almond, banana and chai pudding!

What are two things I NEED in my vegan diet? Chocolate and protein!! Hehehe

Well this pudding is easy to make and meets those needs plus is quite nutritious !

2 bananas mashed

2 TBS chia seeds

Half a cup of chocolate almond milk (my fave bend is Almond Breeze) 

Combine and leave in fridge for 4hrs to allow chai seeds to swell. Serve cold. 

Serves 2

You could easily use chocolate soy milk instead if you'd prefer too. 

This gives you all the goodness of bananas (potassium, vitamin B6 & C, Manganese, fibre), chia (protein, fibre, omega 3 & 6, calcium, iron, magnesium, antioxidants, potassium, ) and almond milk (protein, phosphorus, potassium and zinc plus anything it's fortified with) but is simply DELICIOUS and super easy to make!

Of course if you weren't cheating you could use plain almond milk and add your own sweetener (optional as bananas are already sweet) and Raw Cacao which would be even healthier, with it's amazing nutritional benefits of antioxidants and more. But that would change the name of this post! XP