This bread goes lovely on the side of any Irish dish but is best enjoyed with a bit of butter and some tea to drink.
Ingredients:
2 cups of flour
2 tbsp sugar
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp baking soda
3 tbsp butter, cold and cubed
1 cup of vegan buttermilk (you will need unsweetened soy or other plant milk and vinegar)
½ cup raisins
1 tbsp caraway seeds
First, make your vegan buttermilk by adding 1 tbsp of vinegar to a liquid measuring cup and slowly pouring in your soy milk, stopping when you reach 1 cup. Set aside.
Preheat your oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda, as well as salt.
Using a pastry blender or your fingers, add very cold vegan butter to flour mixture and continue combining until you have a coarse meal. Mix in raisins and caraway seeds. Pour in buttermilk and slowly stir in the dry ingredients to blend. Do not overmix.
Shape your dough into a round loaf (flour your hands so they don’t stick) and plae in an 8” silicone cake pan. If you don’t have silicone, spray your cake pan first.
Bake for 40 minutes, or until browned and a toothpick comes out clean.
Kristen is the mother of two children who are 15 years apart, so saying she is “always on her toes” is an understatement. She is a vegan, a foodie, and a gym rat. Married to her true soul mate, Kristen enjoys travel with her husband and family, as well as more cerebral hobbies like reading and writing poetry and researching nutrition and health. Mrs. Flowers works as an executive assistant from home, but also freelances as a recipe creator and recipe video producer, as well as a content writer. She recently rekindled her love of writing by reentering the blogging world with her blog, Vegan Flowers Forever. As if that isn’t enough, Kristen is the creator and host of an annual charity fundraising event called Vegan Prom Central Florida which is an adult only prom that raises money for local charities. You can find Kristen on Instagram @veganflowersforever, Twitter @VeganFlowers4ev, and on her blog Vegan Flowers Forever (link to www.veganflowersforever.weebly.com – this page will be live in a few days).
