Coffee and Breakfast

What is better than waking up and having a lazy morning alongside a beautifully made coffee, pancakes, chocolate cake (why not) and some family and friends to share this gentle start to the day? Well I can tell you we have been making the most of our new Tassimo machine to make these moments a little bit more special and a nice upgrade from our normal filter coffee. We have a bit of a tradition in our house that Sundays is all about pancakes, sweet, savoury or a bit of both and we try to mix things up everyone now and then. Gluten free pancakes and free-range scrambled eggs are a favourite in our house We always find mornings as a great time to socialise and why not make them special and throw a little Coffee morning even if it's juts for family? We decided to make this one a little special with some divine Chocolate brownie cake, it's indulgent but when shared with others it's makes for a nice one off treat. Our Gluten free Chocolate brownie cake ......

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Easy Vegan Chocolate Cake

This is a super simple chocolate cake that is dairy-free, vegan and fairly healthy as chocolate cake goes. It's also a great little cake to cook with toddlers and Mr A loves making this, as cakes go it's fairly low in added sugar so it's not overly sweet but just right and perfect with a cup of tea. So here it is… 100g Spelt Wholegrain Flour (Wholemeal will also be fine) 100g Plain Flour 100g caster sugar 20g Good Quality Cocoa powder - for example Greens and Blacks 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 75ml melted pure spread (or any vegan diary free spread) 1 teaspoon vanilla extracts 235ml water For the the topping it's up to you but we used a thin layer of icing with some diary free sprinkles 1. Preheat the oven to 180 c/Gas Mark 4. Lightly grease and line a cake tin 2. Sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and sale in a large bowl. Slowly add the melted spr......

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