Friday, June 22, 2007

yeast+cinnamon...oh and peanut butter of course

This is Lolo's Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread.I'm a tester for her upcoming cookbook Vegan Yum Yum,so I can't share the recipe,but this was awesome.I made it for my dad for Father's Day.
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my rollz are crazy.I've posted the recipe before,here.
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Peanut Butter Coffee Cake which I got from a recipe of veglicous blog.
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here's the recipe but with the few moderatiions I made:
Peanut Butter Coffee Cake
2 1/4 c. whole wheat pastry flour
2 tbs. flax meal + 6 TB water
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. fresh ground nutmeg (or be lame and use pre-ground)
pinch of salt
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 1/4 c. soy milk
3/4 c. peanut butter, room temp (I used creamy, but go for chunky if you want a chunky cake)
1/3 c. canola oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375F. Lighty grease a 9 x 13" baking dish.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, soda, nutmeg, and salt. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat with a mixer until everything is moistened and the peanut butter is evenly distributed. (A minute or two.) Pour into the prepared dish.

Topping
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1/2 c. whole wheat pastry flour
pinch of salt
1/4 c. peanut butter
3 tbs. EB

Mix the sugar, flour, and salt, then add the peanut butter and EB. Use your fingers to mix until crumbly, then sprinkle over the top of the batter.

Bake for about 30-35 minutes, until it passes the toothpick test.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Rugelach!

Who doesn't love Jewish pastry?Especially when it's vegan!
I made this for Father's Day just cause.They're orange/chocolate and apricot/fig.
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PB&J cupcakes,S'mores,and Brownies

Peanut butter and jelly cupcakes filled with jelly and peanutbuttercream.They're the Jimmy Carter cakes from VCTOTW but with jam baked in them and then piped and frosted with the peanutbuttercream from VCTOTW.I love peanut butter.and jam.as in jam just by itself,even straight from a jar.
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S'mores cupcakes,also from VCTOTW.Made with Health Valley oatbran vegan graham crackers.Not available here in BC,but they reminded me that I really really like plain ol graham crackers.
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White Chocolate Chip Brownies.I used the PPK brownies recipe,which I posted before,and added white chocolate chips.Still my favourite brownies ever.And the white chocolate in them is good.They're fudgy,but not too fudgy,but I like these better than fudge.Yummy.
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Monday, June 11, 2007

more vegan white chocolate

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
There's only 3 small ones left.Sarah really liked them,and Daniel loved them.I really liked them,too.More so than regular chocolate chip cookies.I used my favourite/what I think is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe and subbed white chips and added a bunch of chopped and whole macadamia nuts.So good.
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ABC Cookies makes a white chocolate chip cherry cookie,which is good,but not that great.Though I was in Seattle this past weekend and had one of their Explosive Espresso Chip cookies which was really really really really yummy.Cate said that they're her favourite,and had one when I was with her in April,and yeah,they're really good.

Also,some local company down there called Rusty's Handbuilt,makes these bars called "peanut butter goo" and they're so amazing.I took the bus down there and got up at 3:55am and it was 4:25,and I had just gotten into the Pretty Girls Make Graves show and hadn't eaten anything yet that day,but I got one of these at Madison Market,which I wasn't going to at the last minute because I feel like I eat too much peanut butter,one of my favouirte foods,if not the favourite,but I got it and they're amazing.When I lived with my mom we/she used to make toffee and it was vegan,and this stuff is just like it.Sooooo good!

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

White Chocolate Chip Birthday Cake with Sprinkles

For my sister Sarah's birthday yesterday I made her a cake.First layer is a vanilla cake full of vegan white chocolate chips,a layer of chocolate buttercream,more vanilla white chocolate cake,then rich caramel ganache,then more chocolate buttercream.Topped with more white chocolate and organic chocolate sprinkles.Very frivolous,and I can thank Brandy for them.
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Cookies!!!!!!

Oreo Cookie Cookies
From Have Cake Will Travel.I used Country Choice Organic vegan "oreos".So good.wow.Cookies inside a cookie.Recipe under link.
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Maple Walnut Cookies
From Vive Le Vegan!Amazing.Her cookie recipes are healthier than most I find,but really are the best.
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Peanut "Better" Cookies
Again,from Vive Le Vegan!Soo good.
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Peanut Butter Choc Chip Cookies
From Soy Not Oi.I omitted the chcolate chips for most of them.I made (most of)these for Denise for saving so many containers for me to use for Food Not Bombs.
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Sunday, June 3, 2007

cookies n cream everything

CnC cupcakes from VCTOTW
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I made these for some people at the Animal Voices Film Festival this weekend.They went over SOOO well.

CnC soy delicious milkshake
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CnC peanut butter sandwhich
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CnC frosting
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