Birthday Cheesecake

I didn't have any candles to blow out for my birthday so when I went round to my parents house recently, they got out a cheesecake they had found in the health food shop. It's by 'Food Heaven..in association with swedish glace'.

My Dad helpfully (?) pointed out that it was 60grams of fat for the whole thing so if you imagine it is a clock then you can decide exactly how much fat you want to consume. Not really what I want to think about when I'm eating cake for my birthday :P Maybe I shouldn't have told you all either..

I thought it was quite small after my first experience of cheesecake being this strawberry cheesecake. When my parents told me we were having cheesecake I just assumed it would be bigger, especially after the fat content conversation (thanks Dad). However, I think this cheesecake was just the right size for a small family of vegans like us. The strawberry cheesecake took a long time to eat up and these cheesecakes are best within the first 24 hours of less (still yum later but different texture). The Food Heaven cheesecake is frozen and you defrost it for 60 minutes before eating. It tastes like lemon cream biscuits which sounds a bit obvious now that I write it. I can't wait to try the berry version.

I don't think there has been enough cake on this blog

THIS WAS MY BIRTHDAY CAKE!

It took a couple of days to make. I was inspired by 'gay cake' images on the internet. 

Louzilla Lovegood Letters

Mo Betta Vegan and Smackers

The rainbow cakes not the more umm interesting gay cakes. Be careful if you google images if you are sensitive as there are lots of rainbow ones but also some more graphic ones.

I used wilton colours which all worked well apart from the violet that came out a little grey but maybe with more practise I would get the colour better. 

Too many bananas = happy low fat banana cake

I'm not a big fruit fan. I do sometimes like to eat bananas but I often buy too many but then don't always remember to eat them until they get a bit too ripe. I often do this on purpose though so that I can make lovely banana treats!

Below are pictures of my all-bran cake that I make often as it is really simple to measure (one mug of this, one mug of that). It is also fairly fail safe so it is possible to experiment. I tried putting a whole banana in the middle of the cake this time and it sunk a bit so I'm not sure if I would do it again. I often eat this cake for breakfast. The recipe is from "So what do you eat?" by Liz Cook. I used half a mug of mashed banana and half of sultanas.

This time I tried freezing half the cake as its just me eating it. The cake texture went a bit strange and the banana went odd. It is better than wasting half of it but it is better fresh.

One final piece of advice. It takes a long time to cook (about 1 hour 15mins). It needs the time to dry out. My advice is to set a timer as its easy to forget about it. Don't leave it for two hours like I did with the last one. Although, it was still edible  and tasty inside the crispy shell.