cake by mail

What a lovely surprise (and probably the best thing to arrive by mail ever) - vegan chocolate cake!

Lots of packaging to help it arrive in perfect condition, but all of the packing materials are compostable (I read on their website: vegancakedirect).

Beautifully presented with purple paper and raffia. Brilliantly decorated with purple and pink flowers and even a hand written card to say who the present was from.

It was the best vegan chocolate cake I had ever tasted. My quest is now to find a vegan chocolate cake recipe that is as chocolaty and as moist as this one. Oh what a quest, if only I'd thought of it earlier ;).

Thank you! - you know who you are. Did I mention that I, like the Queen, now have at least two birthays a year!

Vegetarian, Vegan, decisions, decisions

I’d been vegetarian (eating everything apart from meat and fish) for about 10 years before I took the decision to be vegan. Moving to a strict vegan diet is a big step, for example you can no longer rely on cheese and eggs to fulfil your daily protein requirements. Balancing your diet becomes more difficult. Shopping at the supermarket is a whole new area of learning (why do so many products include whey powder from milk?).

One thing I wanted to make sure of before I took the final step was that I would still be able to eat cake and ice-cream. Not that I am a daily cake/ice-cream eater you understand, I just wanted to know that on special occasions I would be able to indulge in a slice or scoop or two. I know, chickens, cows and whole “where does the food come from” thing should have been uppermost in my thoughts – but I’d been wresting with that one for 10 or so years. Cake and ice-cream became the deciding factors.

I will include in this blog honest reviews of vegan cake and ice-cream recipes. Please join me in my quest to find the perfect vegan chocolate cake and the creamiest non-dairy ice-cream.

As I said though I’m not a daily cake or ice-cream eater, so it make take a while to build up the recipes.

THx