Vegans - It's such hard work!

Molly Cake! You can leave out the walnuts if you like (I normally do). It tastes like "proper" fruit cake - I use it as the base for my Christmas cake most years

http://low-cholesterol.food.com/recipe/molly-cake-132838

Sorry almonds - some versions of the recipe use walnuts instead of almonds

Http://stephcupoftea.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/vegan-tea-party-foods.html

Http://www.chezbettay.com/pages/lunches_snacks_sandwiches1/lss1_teaparty_christmas.html

Http://www.chocolateandbeyond.co.uk/veganism/

I was tlaking to my (vegetarian) sister about this the other day. I could never be a vegan. I could live without meat, but no way without cheese. all the best foods have cheese in there somewhere!

Haha I knew what you meant! Walnuts would be good as well as the almonds I bet! That cake sounds good, thank you, and I'll check out the links you posted, thanks!

Http://www.tohappyvegans.com/wordpress//category/food-and-drink/recipes/

My sister used to be vegan (not in the least bit now though!!) and she used to use this website https://veganfamily.co.uk/ for loads of recipes - I made the chocolate cake https://veganfamily.co.uk/kitchen/chocolate/ many, many times for her along with many of the other chocolate recipes - she's a chocoholic

No wonder her 6 year old daughter is obsessed with the stuff too..

For sandwich fillings my sister used to love humous with chopped up red pepper and onion mixed through or there's always quorn if they're into fake meat? They do a lot of cold meat substitues I think now (can't eat any myself as quorn makes me ? ☹️)

Lots of Quorn products have egg in them so not for vegans!

Sandwiches: hummus and roasted veg, Thai-style bean sprouts/salad/peanut butter, refried beans and avocado on toast points, mushroom pate on crackers.

Cakes: rubbish at baking so no idea.

Im not a vegan but this is one of my fave choc cakes. I make choc buttercrean for the top though.

This recipe comes from the old www.2beans.com website, who say that their non-vegan friends have never noticed that it is a vegan cake - we can quite believe it!

Ingredients

4oz (125g) soya margarine
½ pint (300ml) soya milk
2 tbsp of golden syrup
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
8oz (250g) plain flour
2oz (50g) cocoa
8oz (250g) sugar

Notes

We didn't have to cook this for as long as suggested, so keep an eye on the cake and take it out of the oven earlier if necessary.

Method

Melt margarine, syrup and soya milk, except 4 tablespoons, in a saucepan. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in remaining soya milk. Sieve all the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Add the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly.

Line an 8" (20cm) baking tin with greaseproof paper or baking parchment. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake in oven 180C / 350F / Gas 4 for ½ hour. Reduce to 160C / 300F / Gas 3 for 1¼ hours.

Once cooled, cover with melted dairy-free chocolate (eg Plamil chocolate). Yum!

I keep reading this thread as 'Vegas - it's such hard work'!

Sadly I have nothing helpful to add.

A lady I work with is a vegan and she eats a lots of falofals and lots of beanie salad.

Oh God,poor you- can't you just pretend you've had to cancel and hold the party in secret with all the non-vegans? -sorry. You may be better off buying ready made-you can get egg-free cakes these days-even asda do egg free muffins. Sainsbury's do a good "free-from" range. Try the internet as well- I google everything-there must be loads of ideas on the net ! Good luck