Vegan Bonfire Night Food UK: Guy Fawkes Night Guide

Bonfire Night is all about hot food in cold weather. Most of the traditional foods are easy to veganise or are already accidentally vegan.

Vegan bonfire night food

• Vegan hot dogs — Richmond Meat Free or THIS! Isn’t Pork sausages in a bread roll with onions, ketchup, and mustard. Most hot dog rolls are vegan.
• Jacket potatoes — the ultimate fireworks food. Fill with baked beans, vegan chilli (recipe here), or vegan butter and sweetcorn.
• Soup — butternut squash soup, tomato soup, or lentil soup in a flask. Most are naturally vegan. Warm, filling, and perfect for standing around watching fireworks.
• Parkin — traditional Yorkshire bonfire cake. Standard recipes contain butter and egg, but it is easily veganised by swapping for vegan butter and flax eggs. Treacle and ginger are the key flavours and both are vegan.
• Toffee apples — traditional toffee is just sugar, golden syrup, and butter. Swap the butter for vegan butter and they are fully vegan.

Drinks

Hot chocolate made with plant milk is the obvious choice. Most instant hot chocolate powders are vegan (Options, Cadbury Highlights) — but check first or scan with Is It Vegan?. Mulled cider is usually vegan. Mulled wine may contain honey in some recipes, so check or make your own with red wine, cinnamon, cloves, and orange.