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Silken tofu panna cotta in Peanut butter cupcakes
a cherry chocolate sauce By Meridian (www.meridianfoods.co.uk)
Makes 12 | Prep 20 mins | Cook 25 mins |
By Philipp Ertl from Exceedingly Vegan (www.exceedinglyvegan.com) Calories 381 (per cupcake)
Serves 2 | Prep 5 mins plus chilling | Cook 5 mins |
Calories 303 (per serving) FOR THE CUPCAKES FOR THE FROSTING
250g (1½ cups) self-raising 100g (½ cup) Meridian
FOR THE PANNA COTTA 2 tbsp agave nectar
flour Smooth Peanut Butter

300g (1½ cups) silken tofu 3 tsp agar agar fl akes
2 tsp baking powder 50g (½ cup) good-quality
1 tbsp lemon juice FOR THE SAUCE unsweetened cocoa
100g (½ cup) unrefined

¾ tsp vanilla extract 1 tin of pitted cherries in golden caster sugar 200g (2 cups) icing
¾ tsp almond extract light syrup 250ml (1 cup) almond milk (confectioner฀s) sugar
(optional, but 1 row of vegan cooking 160g ( ⁄3 cup) Meridian 1 tsp vanilla extract
2
recommended) chocolate
Smooth Peanut Butter 70ml ( ⁄3 cup) almond milk
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1 Add all the panna cotta ingredients into a blender and blend 100ml (½ cup) nut oil
for about a minute, then pour the contents into a pan and
cook for about 5 minutes. This helps to gelatinise the mixture. 1 Preheat the oven to 160°C/Gas Mark 3 and line a 12-hole
Make sure you stir all the time so it doesn’t burn. Pour into muffin tin with cake cases. Combine the flour, baking powder
ramekins and put into the fridge for at least 1-1½ hours. and sugar in a large bowl.
I was impatient and wanted to save time, so I put mine into 2 In a separate bowl, beat together the almond milk, peanut
the freezer for 30 minutes and then another 15 minutes into butter and nut oil until smooth. Make a well in the centre of
the fridge. That should do the trick as well. the dry ingredients and pour in the liquid. Stir gently until you
2 To make the cherry chocolate sauce, drain the cherries, have a smooth, thick mixture.
but keep the syrup, it would be a shame to throw it away. 3 Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases and bake for
You could mix it with some soda and make delicious cherry 20-25 minutes, then set aside to cool.
lemonade. Put the cherries into the blender (keep two for 4 While the cakes are cooling, make the frosting. Beat together
decoration) and blend until you get a smooth sauce. Pour the all the ingredients to make a stiff, smooth frosting. Once
sauce into a cooking pan together with one row of cooking the cakes are cool, spread or pipe the frosting on top. If the
chocolate and heat until completely melted. That’s it, cherry frosting is too stiff, add an extra splash of almond milk.
chocolate sauce done!
5 Add a sprinkle of desiccated coconut or some vegan
3 Serve the panna cotta on a plate and pour over the cherry sprinkles to decorate the top.
chocolate sauce (hot or cold, it won’t set easily unless you
put it into the fridge). Add the literal cherry on top and enjoy!

9.6g 4g 0.06g 28.8g 12.4g 18.8g 3.5g 0.11g 26.1g 9.5g
Total fat Saturates Salt Sugar Protein Total fat Saturates Salt Sugar Protein

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