Vegan banana cake

Since I am now in the mission to make desserts, I am always on the prowl searching for recipes. The next one that caught my eye is vegan banana cake. I have made it twice and my hubby loves it. Here you go the recipe:-

Ingredients:-

4 ripe bananas- mashed

Splash of vanilla essence

1/4 cup sunflower oil (60ml)

1 3/4 cup wholemeal flour (420g)

1/3 cup brown sugar (80g)

2 tsp baking powder (10g)

1/2 tsp baking soda (2.5g)

1/2 cup choc chips (120g)- I used chocolate blocks, cut it into small pieces

Method

Pre-heat oven to 175 Celcius.

Mashed the bananas in a bowl. Add in the vanilla essence and sunflower oil.

On another bowl, put in the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and chocolate chips. Mix them together.

Then combine the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. 

Line up baking paper and in 9 inch square pan. Put them in the pan and put in the oven. Bake for 45 mins to 1 hour (depending on your oven)

 

Enjoy the banana cake over afternoon tea. We even had it for breakfast the next day,

Mashed the bananas, the most difficult job in making this cake

Mix the wet and dry ingredients.

Bake in the oven for 45-60 mins

All done, voila!

Cut the cake and enjoy.

Vegan chocolate tart- No bake!

This is another entry of my successful attempt at making vegan desserts. I can't believe it is so delicious and vegan at the same time. No dairy and less fattening (I assume)

The ingredients are below:-

120 gram vegan margarine
200 gram chocolate blocks (I used 60% or 70% cocoa)
240 gram Oreo biscuits (I can't believe Oreo is vegan)
200 ml coconut milk

Method:-
Put Oreo biscuits in food processor. Blend until fine crumbs.
Melt the margarine and put it into the Oreo crumbs until it sand-like texture.
Then use this as base on your tart container. Use spoon to spat it down.
Put this in  the fridge for 10mins to cool.

Then put the coconut boil on pot. Use medium fire while cooking it on the stove.
After it has boiled, turn off the fire and put the chocolate blocks. Stir in until all the chocolate has dissolved.
Pour this into the tart casing which has been cooled off in the fridge.
Then put the tart into fridge overnight to set it.
Enjoy the tart next day.

I like to use fresh strawberry as the garnish.

Tart sampling by me

Hubby eat most of the tart!

Lunch at Flavio al Velavevodetto

We have been planning to visit this restaurant for a while. We finally did it today despite the weather forecast says it was going to rain in Rome. The objective is simple- to order a Roman dish.

The location of the restaurant is in Testaccio, one of the oldest Roman area. Their food is known to represent the working class of Roman back in the old days. However, this area is now known to be a hipster area which represents Rome's culinary highlights.

We made the booking at 12.30. Please make sure you book in advance as the restaurant is quite popular. We were seated. As soon as the menu arrived, we are ready to order. The following is the name in Rome.

1. Carciofi alla giudia- deep fried Jewish artichokes.
2. Tonarelli Cacio al pepe- pasta in Roman pecorine cheese and pepper
3. Tiramisu- this is the classical Italian dessert. Slight different with melting chocolate inside a glass

I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting Rome. I love all the dishes that we ordered, Would definitely come again.

Carciofi alla Giudia

Cacio al pepe

Dolci- Tiramisu