Topping ideas? Well, I’m pretty boring and tend to use vegan margarine. But jam will work well plus you could whip some vegan cream up…now there’s a thought.

Or hopefully not. You see, I don’t actually like Christmas cake, I just feel obligated to make one. I have two children and a husband and I think that officially makes me a grown up. And with that responsibility comes the desire to like Christmas cake.

I got the recipe from the Suma website. I will let you know how I get on. And if you try it too, please let me know how it went.

I usually gently pat the mixture into a rectangular tin, but other times I have just dolloped it onto a big baking tray and that was fine too. It doesn’t keep that well, best eaten within a few days, but then again that shouldn’t be too much of a hardship, as it really is quite delicious.

I tend to use two medium Bramley cooking apples, but I guess you could use any apples you like. You could also add more or less apples I imagine. There’s really not much to go wrong, you might just have to adjust your cooking time though.

Do have a go at this cake though; once you’ve made it, you’ll be suprised how easy it is to knock up at a last minute. If you have all the ingredients you can go from Yummy to Tummy in about 50 mins I’d say…and only one bowl to wash up. Bargain.

I veganised this dish from a recipe in Easy Cooking magazine. When checking out non vegan cook books I tend to go along the lines, that a recipe without eggs can be easily veganised using sunflower margarine and soya milk. And this certainly proves the case. The original recipe called for more sugar but I felt this would be too sweet and I think I was right. It also took double the time to cook which was odd and a little frustrating but now I know it takes over an hour, I’ll be prepared next time. Have a go and let me know how you get on. Serves 6.

Well, today, whilst browsing in a health food shop, I bumped into a lovely lady who began chatting to me about seitan. Do all vegans do that, oh I do hope so.  I’d never made it myself and she kindly gave me her tried and tested recipe. We swapped emails and she has sent me the details already. How cool it that.

I haven’t tried it yet, and probably won’t get around to it for a while, but when I do, I’ll let you know how I get on. And if you’re out there Adelle, big thanks for your kind enthusiasm in spreading your vegan joy to strangers in health food shops, keep up the good work. You made my day.