#vegan biscuit cake

[threemarys1927]

chocolate biscuit cake

The Queen's favourite.

#vegan #veganism #go vegan #go veg #vegan recipes #vegan recipe #vegan chocolate #vegan chocolate recipes #vegan biscuit cake

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Halloween Cookie Cake

#littleblogofvegan #halloween #cookie cake #cookies #biscuits #sweet #dessert #dairyfree #dairy free #eggfree #egg free #plantbased #plant based #vegan #veganism #vegetarian #food #foodblr

[everythingwithwasabi]

The Ultimate Recipe for No Bake Mini Chocolate Cheesecake

#dessert #vegan #cheesecake #chocolate cake #cake #chocolate #cheese #comfort food #recipe #sweets #biscuits

[morethansalad]

Vegan Lepelsteeltjies (South African Savory Jam & Cheese Biscuits)

#vegan #snacks #South African cuisine #african cuisine #biscuits #veganized #lebelsteeltjies #cake flour #apricot jam #plant milk #vegan cheese #nutritional yeast #sea salt

[cookiedotdreams]

Vegan and gluten free cakes, jams, biscuits and pies

You can find me today at the Artisan Fridays Kirkcaldy High Street with fresh, delicious, vegan and gluten free: cakes, cheesecakes, scones, biscuits, jams and pies.

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#biscuits #cakes #cheesecake #gluten free #jam #market #PIES #vegan

[lepatatinefritte]

i just want to open up an english style tearoom but firstly i don’t have the money, secondly all they want in naples is pizza and espresso and THIRDLY im scared i’ll have to deal with mafia if im going to invest in any sort of business here

#i just want a peaceful life of serving tea cakes and biscuits #id also have books people can randomly pick up and read #and vegan gluten free lactose free options

[coffin-flop]

Started trying out new recipes again lately and Jesus christ I forgot how much I loved baking :')

#lately ive made coffee cake. apple cinamom muffins. blueberry muffins. cheesecake muffins w blueberry syrup. breakfast biscuits (all vegan)

[hockeymusicmore]

#recipes #some vegan #chocolate #mint #cake #blueberry #biscuits #pancakes #Youtube

[leva1]

Here is a simple and delicious vegan cream biscuit cake recipe:

Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 cups crushed vegan biscuits (such as Digestive or graham crackers)

1/4 cup melted vegan butter or coconut oil

1 can of full-fat coconut milk (refrigerated overnight)

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Fresh fruit (optional, for garnish)

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

In a bowl, mix together the crushed vegan biscuits and melted vegan butter or coconut oil.

Press the mixture into a 9-inch (23 cm) springform pan, evenly covering the bottom and sides of the pan. Bake for 10 minutes.

Remove the can of coconut milk from the refrigerator and open it. Scoop the solidified cream into a large bowl, leaving behind the liquid.

Add the sugar and vanilla extract to the coconut cream, and using an electric mixer, beat until soft peaks form.

Spoon the mixture over the biscuit base, spreading it evenly.

Refrigerate the cake for at least 2 hours or until firm.

When ready to serve, remove the cake from the pan and garnish with fresh fruit, if desired.

Enjoy your delicious vegan cream biscuit cake! The creamy, sweet filling and crunchy biscuit base make for a perfect combination. This cake is perfect for special occasions, or as a sweet treat any time.

#biscuitcake #biscuit #cake #biscuits #chocolatecake #biscuitlove #oreocake #birthdaycake #chocolate #strawberrycake #biscuitpersonalizado #vanillacake #homemade #foodie #5 minute vegan garlic noodles #diet to lose weight #ketodiet #foodphotography

[anyroads]

OK you know what, if we're gonna talk about Bake Off then fuck it, let's do this.

It used to be this wholesome, lovely show! We used to watch it for the bakers! And the learning! And the light banter and occasional bit of coy innuendo! What happened?

Channel 4 happened. When they bought the show they made a number of changes, most of them Not Good™️. Not just in the sense of them resulting in a lot of 😬 and 🫠 moments, but in the sense of how they changed the show's purpose, atmosphere, and brand.

Look, I know most people are just like, "whatever, it's just a baking show," and yeah, sure. But it's one of the UK's most successful TV exports, and where it once shifted the tone of reality competition to being wholesome and supportive of contestants, it's since moved towards creating tension at the contestants' cost. So aside from the fact that most people watching it signed up to watch a nice show, it has also shifted the goalposts of what that even means. And that, lovelies and gentlefolk, is some bullshit.

I decided to break my rant analysis into four main parts: theme weeks, the hosts, the judges, and the bakers. Let's get to it!

Theme Weeks:

If you watch Bake Off, you know the show's always had a specific theme for each week. The staples that come up in most seasons are:

cake

biscuit

bread

pudding/dessert

pastry

patisserie

Less common but consistent are things like caramel and chocolate week.

Then there are the fun episodes! When GBBO was on the BBC, this started out with things tea week, tarts, pies, tray bakes, basically little tangents still focused on emphasizing specific baking skills. In Series 6 (still on the BBC) they had their first nation-focused theme week with French week -- fairly innocuous given that a lot of patisserie is French, France and England share much more culture than either cares to admit [Norman Flag dot gif], and it was a nice change from watching Paul make the bakers do recipes that involved boiling things while talking about how wonderful boiled doughs are (are they, Paul? Are they?).

The show kept mixing it up with innocuous themes like advanced dough and alternative ingredients weeks, European cakes, Victorian week, batter week, and botanical week. And while it was frustrating to watch Paul Hollywood mispronounce things like the Hungarian Dobos Torta and lecture bakers on babka when he clearly knew nothing about it (or about Jewish baking in general, go off Past Me), the show's general attitude was that the judges had their own opinions, which were separate from the immutable facts around the chemistry of baking (more on this later) and shouldn't affect how bakers are judged.

After the show moved to Channel 4, the number of themed weeks increased and more of them focused on specific countries. In 6 seasons on the BBC, there were only two country-focused theme weeks, and in 5 seasons on Channel 4 there have been five. And while they've also had themes like vegan baking, roaring 20s, the 1980s, spice week, etc. the show has really started to go hard on exoticizing other cultures in outright disrespectful and racist ways. There's been Italian and Danish week, German, Japanese (it wasn't, it was East Asian week), and now Mexican week (which doesn't touch on interspersed Jewish bakes that didn't get a theme week, like versions of bagels and babka set as technical challenges that were borderline hate crimes and mansplained by a guy who has no idea how to make either and once wrote in a cookbook that challah was traditionally eaten during Passover). Each time the hosts played up the theme with racist bits and jokes that can be used as evidence in court if your case is "why should shows with scripted content have a professional writing staff."

Which touches on other issues the show has now...

The Hosts:

When GBBO was on the BBC, the show was hosted by ✨Mel Giedroyc✨ and ✨Sue Perkins✨. They encouraged the bakers! They'd hold stuff for them sometimes! They were interested in them! If a baker had a breakdown, they would start singing copyrighted material to render the footage unusable! When the show moved to Channel 4, they left, though I'm not unconvinced that Channel 4 offered them impossible to accept contracts to force them out so they could rebrand the show. They replaced them with Sandy Toksvig and Noel Fielding. Sandy was a lovely host in the vein of Mel and Sue, and she and Noel had a relatively sweet rapport, but she left a few seasons ago and was replaced by Matt Lucas.

Noel Fielding is mostly known for his quirky brand of comedy, a sort of British Zooey Deschanel who's goth from the neck up, an upperclass British gay divorcee from the neck down, and basically an early 60s Beatle re: trousers. Matt Lucas has almost definitely never watched a single episode of GBBO and his most redeeming quality is his thinly veiled contempt for Paul Hollywood.

The two treat the baking tent as their personal playground. Far from the supportive attitude of Mel and Sue, they tend to get in the bakers' way during the most stressful moments, especially when they try to do hilarious "comedy" bits (I can't not put that in quotes) like Noel's talking wooden spoon thing, or Matt talking over Noel to do time calls. During theme weeks like Japanese and Mexican week, they do culture-specific bits that are both racist ("just Juan joke" and "is Mexico a real place?") and unsurprising, given that both Matt and Noel did blackface on their respective sketch shows and absolutely could and should have known better because it was already the current fucking century.

All this to say, there's now a separation between the bakers and the hosts, as if they're on different shows. The hosts are doing their own thing and the bakers are doing GBBO. The show has gotten meaner to the bakers, and the hosts aren't there to support them anymore, they're just there to be comic relief. Because when you refocus your show on stressing the bakers the fuck out, you need a forced laugh I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

The Judges:

First of all, a sincere congratulations to Paul Hollywood who managed to squeeze I jUsT cAmE bAcK fRoM mExIcO aNd YeT sTiLL pRoNoUnCe PiCo De GaLLo As 'PiKa De KaLLa' and I aM aN eXpErT oN s'MoReS wHiCh aRe MaDe WiTh DiGeStiVe BiScUiTs AcCoRdiNg tO mE, aN eXpErT oN s'MoReS, just two in a giant pile of astoundingly wrong hot takes, into a short enough time span that they all aired within Liz Truss's term as Prime Minister. A true man of accomplishments.

In the interest of fairness, I need to preface this with a disclaimer that, due to the fact that I've been watching Bake Off for most of its run, I'm biased. Specifically, I can't stand Paul Hollywood's smarmy, classist, egomaniac ass because he's proven time and again he's more interested in looking smart than actually knowing what he's talking about. Since the show moved to Channel 4, they've changed the occasional handshake Paul would give bakers to the HoLlYwOoD hAnDsHaKe™️. It's gone from being an emphasis of someone's skill to a goal, a reward, and one that emphasizes the judges' place above the bakers.

The judges used to function as teachers, imparting their skills and insights to the bakers. When the show was on the BBC, the voiceover leading to a judging would focus on the bakers' work being finished, saying how it will now be evaluated based on their skill and how well they met the brief. The voiceovers now, on Channel 4, focus on the judging (literally saying something along the lines of, "the bakers will now be judged by Prue and Paul"). There is a clear distinction Channel 4's producers have made, to mark that the show is now about whether or not the judges approve, not whether the brief was understood and executed well. On the BBC, it was irrelevant whether the judges liked a particular flavor, as long as the bake was well-made. Now, the bakers are expected to know the judges tastes and cater to them, which is frankly bullshit. A judge doesn't have to like a flavor to know whether or not it was executed well, ie. is it carrying a bake and was it meant to etc.

The judges have been turned into a brand. Cynically, Channel 4 knows that by building them up and focusing the show more on them, they can exploit their image more for profit. In the process, they've become much more biased and their own biases have come out as well. Most recently in the flaming dumpster fire that was Mexican Week, Paul Hollywood tried to intimidate a baker by telling them he had just gotten back from Mexico (which must have been a fruitful learning trip if he couldn't even learn how to pronounce pico de gallo correctly). Where do I even start with this? Here's an amateur baker from England (the show specifically casts middle and lower middle class bakers for the most part??) who likely can't afford trips to Mexico, who lives in a country with incredibly limited access to Mexican cuisine, who is expected not only to understand the cooking and baking traditions of a completely different culture but to do so well enough to play with it and do something creative with it. On top of which, one of the judges is now using his privilege of traveling halfway around the world as some kind of leverage, as if this were a bar that any amateur British baker could clear.

Prue, meanwhile, has openly asserted her biases against cultural flavors and textures, prioritizing her own personal preferences over them, as if they were in any way relevant to the skills and knowledge necessary to execute the tasks she sets to the bakers. She has also been consistently elitist, criticizing bakers for choices they made that were clearly informed by their experiences within income brackets that are too low and foreign for Prue to comprehend. She once had a go at a baker on a Christmas special because his Christmas dinner themed bake didn't have a turkey, even though it was clear from the stories he shared of his own Christmases that his family likely couldn't afford one. "It's not really Christmas dinner without a turkey," Prue said into the camera angrily while sitting on a chair made of live orphans and telling the ghost of Christmas Future to come back when he had another museum gift shop necklace for her to round out her collection.

The show is no longer about which baker has the best skills. It's become about which mortal can appease the gods of Mount Olympus, ie. the judges.

The Bakers:

Remember when the show was about them? Channel 4 doesn't! Because this is a reality competition show, the bakers are chosen both based on their skills, as well as cast-ability. They're cast as characters, distinct from each other, from different areas, age groups, ethnicities. All of them are amateurs. All of them are middle or lower middle class. They've ranged from college students to supermarket cashiers to prison wardens to scientists.

Something I noticed when the show moved to Channel 4 is that the baker who goes home in the first week is always wildly behind the rest in skills. I have no proof of this other than my eyeballs and deductive reasoning skills, but I think that Channel 4 deliberately casts a ringer each season who they think will be an easy send-off in the first week, just to get the audience's feet wet.

Anyway, like I said, this show used to be about the bakers - about them building skills and learning, and having walked into the tent with a self-taught foundation and understanding of the processes and chemical reactions involved in baking. When the show was on the BBC, the end of each round had some (often brief) moments of tension - will they finish in time? Will they get their bakes on the plate before time is up? Did they forget to add sugar to their batter and only remember at the last minute? In the end, they usually managed to finish and we'd all breathe a sigh of relief and think, yeah! You go, Bakers Who I'm Rooting For!

Now, on Channel 4, the end of round drama has been stretched to be so much longer that they've composed extra music for it. The bakers often seem out of their depth, whether because the instructions for the technical challenge are too vague (bake a lemon meringue pie??? As if anyone in the UK under the age of 60 has had one in the last decade???), or because they were expected to bake something that required a more than a basic foundation they weren't told of. Often it seems like they just aren't given enough time, a tactic used by reality competition shows to manipulate contestants into giving the cameras more dramatic content. On top of all this, the hosts get in their way, instead of helping them plate their bakes. As has been pointed out before, when everyone fails the challenge, the real failure lies with whoever set it.

In conclusion:

The show no longer exists to teach the bakers - and the audience - skills or knowledge. It now manipulates contestants for dramatic effect and prioritizes showing conflict over wholesome content. Channel 4 sees the bakers as social media content they can churn out season after season, and don't care about them because in a few months there'll be a new batch to exploit. Meanwhile, the judges are also out of their depth, co-opting recipes from other cultures and butchering them horrendously, while the camera gives them nothing but status as they hold bakers to the expectation that they learn how to make things very much the wrong way. If you saw any of the tweets about Mexican or Japanese week, or read my post on how Paul Hollywood isn't allowed to go near babka ever again, you'll understand.

So what would fix all this? Scrap the current judges and the hosts altogether. Bring back Mel and Sue, and replace the judges with expert bakers who have a love of their craft and want to share it with others. The draw of GBBO used to be its warmth and comfort - if Channel 4 isn't going to start its own version of Master Chef For Bakers, then it needs to stop trying to find a balance of how it can insert that vibe into GBBO. It can't. That's not a thing. Stop trying.

#GBBO #paul hollywood #prue leith #the great british bake off

[jariktig]

The slightly traitorous cooker has been temporarily got to behave, so share with me some Decepticon biscuits and Megatron & Jazz cake (with thanks again to @cerebrocentric-bullet who made the art). The cake is pistachio and raspberry (gluten-free and vegan) and the biscuits are cinnamon and vanilla (vegan only). The Daleks are a special concession to best-beloved, who is into Dr Who.

There seem to be a lot of TF people who have birthdays in April, so next year perhaps I shall try to do something less personalised to me, and share...

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Biscuit Cake

#projectveganbaking #biscuit cake #biscuits #cookies #sweet #dessert #chocolate #no bake #food #recipe #recipes #baking #vegan #veganism #vegetarian

[everythingwithwasabi]

Vegan Tiramisu with Easy Homemade Ladyfinger

#vegan #italian food #dessert #biscuits #coffee #maple syrup #nuts #tofu #alcohol #chocolate #cake #sweets #comfort food #recipe

[greypetrel]

Pan dei Morti

Aka Deads' Bread. (Image source) (recipe I translated - My family moved to Milan but we're originally from Parma, I don't have a family recipe)

They're little soft biscuits that are typical of Milan and the area of Lombardy north of the city (Brianza). You ONLY find them in bakeries there and around All Saints' Day (Ognissanti), when the tradition in Catholic Italy wants that you should go and visit your dead ones in the cemetery, change the flowers, pay your respects. (It's mostly a thing that grannies do, nowadays, but it's a bank holiday and what's not to enjoy about a day home with a seasonal treat) The name comes not because the cakes are meant to be offered to the deads, but because All Saints' Day is from this tradition also called "Giorno dei Morti", Day of the Deads (not to be confounded with Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, they're different celebrations and shouldn't be mixed up!), and it's litterally "the bread you eat around that day".

They're delicious and tasty, and @brother-genitivi expressed interest for the recipe... (and listen, exchanging recipes with people all over the world is something really great about the internet)

Recipe under the cut! Note: I am European and don't do imperial measurements. Forgive me if I keep the metric, I don't trust my conversions since when I found out that British and American cups are different.

INGREDIENTS:

All purpose flour, 250g

Almond cookies (Amaretti), 100g

Caster sugar, 300g

Almonds, 120g (or the same quantity of almond flour)

Raisins, 120g

Dessert wine (sweet wine), 100ml. You can substitute it with apple juice or grape juice, same quantity.

Unflavoured, plain biscuits, 100g

Ladyfingers, 300g

Cocoa powder, 50g

Dried figs, 120g

6 egg whites

Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon

Nutmeg, a pinch (optional)

Baking powder, 10g

I have unfortunately no idea on how to substitute the egg whites in baking if you want to make it vegan, and I've never tried anything to have an educated guess over tutorials online, if anyone have an intel I'll edit the recipe with pleasure! (And I'd be glad to know myself) All the spices can be skipped if you don't like them, and if you like me don't like figs, use your favourite dried fruit, it goes without saying.

PROCEDURE:

Wash and soak your raisins, either in water or in the wine/juice of the recipe.

Grind together the biscuits, ladyfingers and almond cookies until you obtain a fine grind. Move it in a bowl.

Grind the almonds to a fine flour, then add it to the biscuits in the bowl. Do the same with the dried figs.

Add to the bowl the flour, cocoa, cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg (optional).

Drain the raisins if you soaked them in water, and add them to the bowl. If you soaked them in the wine/juice, add that too.

Add the egg whites, and start mixing everything together by hand or with a wooden spoon until you obtain a compact batter. Move it to a flat surface, floured, and keep working it with your hand until the batter is firm and solid. Form a sausage of it and cut it in thick slices.

The slices should then be modelled and flattened so they're fairly thick (1cm of depth, the recipe says, but you do you) and shaped like longue tongues. They're not really small!

Put them on a baking tray, minding not to place them too close together: they'll rise a little in the baking.

Cook them in a pre-heated oven at 180°C/350°F for around 25 minutes (use a toothpick to check if they're cooked inside). When they're ready, powder them with powdered sugar and let them cool.

The recipe wants you to leave them alone for at least two days, so they'll get soft, but listen. No judgement here, eat them whenever you'd like, life is bitter as it is without restraining yourself not to eat cake for two days.

#recipes #cakes #pan dei morti #cooking #baking #italian recipes #cooking petrel #halloween

[cookiedotdreams]

Vegan and gluten free cakes, jams, biscuits and pies

You can find me today at the Artisan Fridays Kirkcaldy High Street with fresh, delicious, vegan and gluten free: cakes, cheesecakes, scones, biscuits, jams and pies.

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#biscuits #cakes #cheesecake #gluten free #jam #market #PIES #vegan

[the-octopod]

Okay question I know is probably stupid but how do you guys function on only kelp cakes and fish biscuits? I mean Shellington is a otter that needs to eat about 30% of his weight to live and captain barnacles needs about 20% of his body to weight a day to live. Is it like magic? I don't think so but I'm wrong.

(Once again a stupid question but I was curious)

Well, erm, we don't just live on kelp cakes and fish biscuits! We have quite a varied diet.. the Vegimals are adequate chefs. Almost everything they cook comes from the garden pod! And yes, we eat.. a lot. We cook for each other often, too. Soups, sandwiches, pasta and noodles, salads, pancakes, kelp.. pies.. My favorite food is actually a nice clam sandwich. Some of us eat more than others... I eat a lot, and yet I can't seem to gain weight. :/ At least It's not as bad as Peso, his metabolism is lightning fast. I'd have to say Captain Barnacles eats the most out of all of us.

We all take supplements to make up for the lack of meat in our diets. There's also vegan meat, but we don't usually prepare it. We have to take different types of supplements, too.. lots of omega-3s.

I hope this answers your questions! Oh, and also, I don't have to eat thirty percent of my body weight anymore, it's been a couple million years since then.

(I love my Omega-3s.)

Sincerely,

Dr. Shellington Sea Otter

#octonauts #ask blog #ask the octonauts #shellington #captain barnacles #peso penguin