Billie Loveland

Since my intolerances to gluten, eggs and dairy came about, I tried various ‘free from’ pancake mixes, using a ‘chia egg’ to replace the actual egg. but if we wanna make things a bit more exciting, here are some of my favourite (more exciting) pancake toppings for vegan gluten free pancakes: * Banana and Vegan Nutella (add in vegan ice cream if you’re feeling bougie af) Add some vegetable oil to a frying pan, wipe with a piece of kitchen and save kitchen roll to re-oil pan between pancakes. Once pan is hot, use a ladle to add some pancake mix to pan.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to call these “cakes” because they don’t seem to have an official name as of yet so, creative as ever, I settled with Biscuit Meringue Cake. Ironically, there is no cake included in the Biscuit Meringue Cake, however, I think this would be a great design for layers of sponge filled with piped cream, swiss meringue buttercream, or creme patissiere and topped with lashings of fruit! It doesn’t ever tend to turn out great when I use pasteurised egg whites It takes a while but you’re likely to get a better, firmer meringue at the end 🙂 To decorate my Biscuit Meringue Cake, I used fresh flowers, fresh strawberries and marshmallows.

I made a lot of soggy pancakes, a lot of runny pancakes, a lot of floury pancakes, and a lot of burnt-on-the-outside-raw-in-the-middle pancakes. Add some delicious caramelised bananas on top of this unreal pancake stack and you have the unofficial, but official-to-me, best vegan pancake recipe EVER! Re-oil your pan before you add more batter to it and continue until you've made 8 pancakes. If you are serving 8 pancakes to four people, I would caramelise four bananas so they each have a whole banana with their two pancakes.

This vegan vanilla cake is the BEST vegan vanilla cake I have ever tried. This recipe can make either a two layer 8″ round cake, or a deeper two layer 7″ round cake, a 10″ round or 9″ square traybake type cake, or 12 vegan vanilla cupcakes. This means I throw them at all of my vegan bakes to pretty them up and make me feel like it’s my birthday most days. If you would like to pretty the cake up, use some Baking Time Club vegan sprinkles and go cray with that!