Recipes

V = vegan | GF = gluten free | WF = wheat free
All recipes are vegetarian. Gluten free means wheat free, but wheat free may not mean gluten free.

Breakfast Things

Muesli V/WF

Sweet Things

Hummingbird Cake V
Chocolate Beetroot Cake V
Banana Macaroons V/GF

Other Things

Pie-crust V/GF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muesli

Ingredients

• Oats
• Coconut
• Dried fruit: apricots, sultanas and raisins...
• Bran?

[Better not.. bran is usually from wheat so to be wheat-free is better --mkli]
[Just oats is boring though. What other cereally type things can we add? -- AlisonB - 12 Sep 2007]
[Oats contain gluten anyway -- I thought specific wheat allergies (as in, not gluten sensitivity) was really rare. Why else would someone avoid wheat? As it is so tasty! -- JulianaQian]

Method

1. Chop up dried fruit.
2. Mix everything together (someone please add measures!) It should be mostly oaty, but there should be fruity bits in every spoonful, if you can visualize that.

-- AlisonB - 10 Sep 2007

For toasted muesli
Mix the oats and coconut with fruit juice and a little oil and roast until lightly browned. If you're making for yourself and you're not allergic, adding chopped nuts is nice, but if it's for Wholefoods it's probably better to be safer. -- JulianaQian - 11 Sep 2007

 

 

Hummingbird Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup self-raising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon bi-carb. soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger (optional)
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cups mashed banana (about 2 large bananas)
• 450g can crushed pineapple in syrup, drained (more or less is fine)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC.
2. Grease a deep, 19cm square cake tin.
3. Sift flour, baking soda and spices into a large bowl and stir in sugar and coconut.
4. Add vegetable oil to dry ingredients.
5. Then add mashed banana and drained pineapple.
6. When well combined, spread mixture into cake tin and bake for about 1 hour.
7. Let cake stand for a few minutes before turning out onto rack to cool.

 

 

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Ingredients

• 1 large beet
• water
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp. cornstarch
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. cinnamon

Method

1. Peel and dice one large beetroot. Place the pieces in a saucepan with water to cover and boil until soft. (Or use precooked, canned beetroot.)
2. Allow the beets to cool, and then drain them, keeping the red water for later. Put the drained beets into the food processor with 1/4 cup water, and process until pureed. (Or, if you don't have a food processor, chop finely and mash, and add the 1/4 cup water in Step 4.)
3. Preheat the oven to 170ºC. Grease cake tin.
4. Mix the pureed/mashed beets, 2 tablespoons water, vanilla extract, vegetable oil and apple cider vinegar.
5. Mix the dry ingredients together; then add the beet mixture and stir until well-combined.
6. Bake for 35-60 minutes, depending on depth of cake tin -- toothpick/skewer test.
7. Allow to cool completely before cutting and serving.
8. Frost with ruby chocolate ganache – mix melted chocolate with some soy milk, margarine and a little of the red water left from earlier, taking care not to make the mixture too runny.

-- JulianaQian - 08 Sep 2007

 

 

Banana Macaroons

A very quick and easy sweet fix.

Ingredients

• 2 small bananas
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 cups dessicated coconut
• 2 pinches of salt
• 2 tbsp corn flour

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 150ºC. Line a tray with baking paper.
2. Mix the dry ingredients.
3. Mash the bananas and add to dry ingredients.
4. Combine well -- if too dry, add a tablespoon of vegan margarine or vegetable oil. The mixture will be crumbly but should be able to form small balls when kneeded.
5. Make mixture into small balls and line on tray. Bake for about fifteen minutes, until slightly golden -- because of the high sugar content they burn quite easily so check on them after ten minutes. Loosen from tray and allow to cool.

The original recipe had two eggs in place of the bananas, and a full cup of sugar. Banana is the only thing I've tried that works as an egg substitute for this recipe but you might be able to find something else that works.

-- JulianaQian - 10 Oct 2007

 

 

Wheat-free Vegan Pie-crust

I've made a few different wheat-free vegan pie crusts, but this one - an amalgamation of several different recipes - is the only one that made me want to eat just pie crust. On its own. With no filling. I hope you like it too!

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup rice flour
• 1/2 cup soy flour
• 1/4 cup almond meal (or other nut meal)
• 6 tbsp margarine
• 3-4 tbsp cold water
• 1/4 tsp salt (optional)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease your favourite pie dish.
2. Mix dry ingredients.
3. Using a food processor or a fork, mash in the margarine.
4. Add water until a dough is formed.
5. Either roll out the pastry with a rolling pin, or just press into the pie dish with your hands!
6. Bake for 15 minutes or until showing first signs of golden-ness.
7. Put in sweet or savoury filling of your choice and bake again!

-- ZillaBailey - 27 Sep 2007