Birthday Cake Recipe
![Birthday Cake](https://foodcycle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Birthday-Cake-Recipe-1024x1024.png)
Top Tips: This cake can be a two layered cake, traybake or cupcakes. For the vegetables, try using carrot, sweet potato, beetroot or courgette. If using beetroot, swap the spices to cocoa, apple cider vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.
Butter Cookies
![Butter Cookies](https://foodcycle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Butter-Cookies.png)
Paprika Potato Wedges
![Paprika Potato Wedges](https://foodcycle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Paprika-Potato-Wedges.png)
Banana muffins
![Banana Muffin](https://foodcycle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Banana-Muffin.png)
Emergency Sponge Cake
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Top Tips: You can add fruit to the bottom for an upside down cake, just don’t line with baking paper. Or sprinkle choc chips or raisins on the top prior to cooking. If you don’t have any vanilla extract don’t worry – it’s not essential!
Chickpea Burger with Avocado and Baby Spinach
![Chickpea burger](https://foodcycle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Chickpea-burger.png)
Top Tips: Add caramelized onions to the burger mixture at step 3 for extra flavour. Serve on a sesame bun if you have available.
Vegan Banana Bread
![Vegan banana cake](https://foodcycle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Vegan-Banana-Cake.png)
Top Tip: If your bananas are not quite ripe enough you can put them in the oven while it preheats to soften them.
Vegetarian Balls
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Top Tips: Switch out the cous cous and use bulgur wheat or rice flour instead. Serve with yoghurt in olive oil, pomegranate molasses or hummus dip.
Roasted Broccoli Stem Salad
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Dairy Free Sponge Cake
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Top Tips: Using cocoa powder turns this plain sponge into chocolate cake. Cooking times vary based on how big the baking trays are. When making 30 servings, we’d recommend splitting this into three large trays.
Coffee Sponge
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Roasted Cauliflower Salad
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Top Tip: Add more or less chilli flakes depending on how spicy you want it to be.