Summary: A lovely recipe to relieve the munchies at Easter tea time. Traditionally, Simnel cake was made for Mothering Day. Girls working in service were allowed to use the leftover dried fruits from the Christmas celebrations to make this cake as a present for their mothers. Nowadays, Simnel cakes are often made for Easter.
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Summary: This rich fruit cake is just unbelievable : it it made without eggs, butter or margarine or oil, has no added sugar, yet it tastes just as delicious and decadent as you would expect any good Christmas cake to.
The magic trick here is to replace the butter-sugar-egg mixture with dates blended with water. Using wholemeal flour further increases the fibre content, making this Christmas cake healthier.
I used mixed vine fruit with peel, but the peel does contain sugar. To keep it really sugar free, stick to mixed vine fruit : sultanas, raisins and currants, and be sure to choose those with no added sugar.
Also, I chose to decorate the cake with some home-made, low sugar vegan marzipan on the top, but beware that this would also increase the sugar content, unless you make your marzipan with xylitol.
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Summary: Ice cream on Christmas Day :
This recipe is free from: wheat, gluten, egg and nuts free. Use soy yoghurt and oat or rice cream to make it dairy free, or coconut yoghurt and oat or rice cream to make it dairy free and soy free.
Choose your favourite dried fruits such as sultanas, raisins, currants, cherries, chopped crystallised ginger, mixed peel, prunes, apricots, figs or anything else that you fancy.
For an alcohol free Christmas Pudding Ice Cream, use grape juice, orange juice or your favourite fruit juice instead.
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