Vegan baking: 3 dessert recipes to try this Veganuary

Vegan desserts

Nothing can challenge you more than vegan baking: many think that making a vegan dessert is almost impossible, but it's actually easier than you think. Here are three folloproof recipes to try this month.

Whole wheat shortcrust pastry

1000 g whole wheat flour

500 g coconut oil

300 g sugar

210 g vegetable milk beverage

5 g baking soda

Weigh all the ingredients in the mixer bowl. Use the leaf attachment or a hook, operate the machine and let it work until the dough is well mixed. Use it to make tarts and biscuits.

Orange pound cake

150 g sugar

200 ml water

200 ml orange juice

100 ml vegetable oil

300 g flour

1 orange zest

16 g baking powder

Mix the sugar with lukewarm water and orange juice, then add the oil and mix again. Add the flour and the orange zest, then the baking powder. Pour the mixture into a buttered baking tin and bake at 170°C for about 40 minutes.

Sugar-free banana pancakes

1 ripe banana

100 g flour

8 g baking powder

70 ml soy milk

1 pinch of salt

Cinnamon

Vegetable oil

Mash the ripe banana and mix it with the flour. Add the baking powder, a pinch of salt and some cinnamon. Add the soy milk (or any other vegan drink you like), then mix all the ingredients together. Heat some vegetable oil in a pan, pour in a spoonful of pancake mixture and let it cook. Cook on one side until bubbles begin to form and break, about 2 minutes; then turn the pancakes and cook the other side until brown.