Vegan Apple Banana Walnut Cake

Hello my friends,

today I'm coming back at you with another vegan recipe. This time it's a healthy and super yummy cake! To make the dough I used my trusty Thermomix TM5 as a blender, but of course you could use any type of blender or even cut everything up by hand.

What you need for the dough:

• 100 g sugar
• 200 g vegan butter 
• 300 g flour
• 1 ripe banana

In the Thermomix you can mix all of the ingredients for 10 sec. at level 5 to gain a smooth dough. Alternatively use any other mixing tool. Transfer the dough into a cake pan lined with a baking sheet.

To make the topping you need:

• 500 g apples
• 100 g walnuts
• 1 tbs sugar or agave nectar

Using the thermomix chop up the apples and nuts for 2 sec. at level 5. Pour the mixture on top of the dough and heat the oven to 180 °C and bake the cake for about 40 minutes or until the top is slightly golden brown.

Then let it cool down and enjoy your delicious vegan cake!

 Hope you enjoy this recipe! If you try it out then let me know in the comments or on my Instagram @organizedjane :-)

My calendar journey to bullet journaling

Hi Lovelies,

for my second post I'm going to show you my newest addiction, my bullet journal!
If you have been following me for the last years over at Instagram (@organizedjane), you would definitely know, that I love my planners, calendars, organizers and any of that sort. I started a few years ago with a filofax domino personal size in ultraviolet, bought some calendar inserts and tried out the system. I got a huge amount of washitape to decorate my filofax, but I was never fully happy with it.
Shortly after I tried out a bigger filofax in A5 size, the filofax saffiano in raspberry. This turned out to be too big for me to carry around on a day to day basis. Eventually I used this organizer for my wedding planning.
I went back to the personal size filofax planner and got 2 more: a patent compact organizer in poppy red and finally a more expensive filofax original in fuchsia, which was on my wish list for a very long time. I really loved the quality of the planners and the medium size. But still I was searching for planner peace!

left to right: Filofax A5 Saffiano raspberry, Filofax Personal Domino ultraviolet, Filofax Compact Patent poppy red, Filofax Personal Original fuchsia, Filofax Pocket Saffiano gold

A year after that the happy planners became all the rage, so I got the My Life version in 2015, and I started to plan with lots of stickers and washitape. I fell in love with the new system and that's when I really started to show my weekly spreads on instagram.
Last summer I bought my second happy planner for 2016/17 in the botanical garden design, which is all in all so beautifully designed.

Happy Planner My Life 2015/16 and Botanical Garden 2016/17

The only downside to my happy planner was the size, because they were to big and heavy to carry around, just like the Filofax A5. So I mainly used them as a stay at home planner, which was fine for me, especially as I bought a little Filofax pocket saffiano in gold to take with me in my bag. 

I guess as time went by, I couldn't keep up with two planners, so I was again in need of a different solution. This is why I'm trying out bullet journaling now. The trend has reached me too and I really wanted to give it a go! But instead of buying something new again (I have no more money for that^^) I went back to the roots and took my beloved Filofax Original and made myself a bullet journal hybrid!

I just printed out a free dot grid pattern (from: https://www.printablepaper.net/category/dot), cut it down to size and hole punched it. And then I just let my creativity flow... In the following I'll show you my first pages, that include a quotes page, a habit and mood tracker for January, my monthly overview and my first week!

So now I am totally into bullet journaling and the creative freedom I have with it. We'll see what the future brings and how my bullet journal will grow!

What kind of planner/calendar are you using and why? Or do you have any questions about bullet journaling? I would love to hear from you!!

Hope you like this kind of post :-) and see you around until next time!

Starting the year fresh!

I haven't been blogging for such a long time, it must have been over 2 years ago... but I guess a new year brings some new motivation and change! So here I am, reviving my "organizedjane" blog :-)!

Speaking of a fresh start, I showing you a super healthy tea inspiration that you can easily recreate at home!

You just need:
- 1 organic lemon
- 1 organic lime
- chopped up ginger (how much you like)
- a few mint leaves
- hot water

Just cut the lemon and lime in slices and put them with the ginger in a big jar or cup. Pour hot bowling water over it and let it sit for a minute or two. Then top it of with some mint leaves. If you have a sweet tooth, you can further put a tablespoon of brown sugar in it. But it tastes incredible lemony even without the sugar.

You can drink it hot and cold, whatever you like best!

If you try out this fresh mint-lemon-lime-ginger-tea, then please leave me your feedback in the comments below!!!

Have a wonderful first week of january my loves!