More ginger biscuits

I had so much fun making ginger biscuits the other day that I decided to try out another recipe. These ones are oaty ginger biscuits and a little bit stickier than the others.

• Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5/180°C.
• Melt 115g vegetable spread, 85g sugar and 1 desert spoon of syrup on a low heat.
• Add 115g oats, 115g self raising flour, 1 heaped tsp ginger and a pinch of salt and mix well.
• Teaspoon out onto a baking tray and cook for about 20 minutes, until golden brown.

Recipe source: My mum again

I also baked some bread (which was some combination of flour, yeast, salt, water and olive oil)...

Spot the hedgehog!

... and some carob cornflake cakes, which are the less well known cousin of chocolate rice crispie cakes. I made them with 100g carob, 3 tbsp syrup, 60g vegetable spread melted together with 90g cornflakes.

I should probably have remembered to buy paper cases...

Smooth, creamy truffles and crunchy oat crumble

One of my housemates has been making lots of super tasty looking truffles recently which has been a really good test of my will power. But to help me resist, I decided I'd make some vegan ones. Here's the recipe I used...

Nyom nyom nyom...

Coconut truffles

• Melt 250g dark chocolate.
• Stir in 100ml soya cream, 100g creamed coconut and 50g desiccated coconut.
• Leave in the fridge over night.
• Roll into balls in icing sugar and desiccated coconut, then sprinkle with cocoa powder.
• I made 31, but it could easily do a few more.

Recipe source: 'Return of the Cake Scoffer'

If you're feeling that all that's just a little unhealthy, why not make a crumble? Crumbles are great. They're full of fruit so you can pretend that they're healthy... At Veggie Soc on Sunday, we made an apple and rhubarb one. It was really easy, and tasty too.

Oaty crumble topping

Apple and rhubarb crumble

• Pre-heat oven to around 180°C/Gas Mark 5.
• Boil enough apple and rhubarb to fill most of your dish until soft.
• Mix together equal amounts of sugar and flour in a bowl.
  Using your hands, rub in small amounts of sunflower spread at a time until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
• Add a handful of oats.
• Use mixture to cover fruit.
• Bake crumble until the top turns golden brown.
  Enjoy with soya cream, custard or ice cream. (Hey, it's fine; you're eating fruit...)

With custard

The exciting escapades of Veggie Soc

Today, we had a Veggie Soc stall at the union as part of a Transition University event, which is about making the uni greener. We had various yummy recipes and leaflets to hand out, including one for Meat Free Monday, which seems to me a good stepping stone between enjoying veggie food and "I couldn't possibly be veggie all the time so I won't do it at all!", though it did have an odd information/Paul McCartney photo ratio. But anyway, as if that wasn't exciting enough, we were also selling Swedish choco-balls for 10p, along with a little recipe card. We first made them for the international food tasting event last week and they proved so popular that we thought we'd do them again, and now you can too...

Unfortunately, I was too busy buying and eating them to take a photo...

Oops That's supposed to read 2 tbsp water OR coffee.