Valentine's Day-Heart Shaped Danishes!!!and Banana Chocolate Chip,PB Swirl Banana Bread,Croissants,Milkshake,S'mores,n More!(sweets,that is...)

a plethora of heart-shaped raspberry danish pastries.

raspberry cream cheese heart-shaped danish.

chocolate almond raspberry heart-shaped danish.

cappuccino(from stumtown,ace hotel) with appropriate latte art and a heart-shaped danish.

precious AND appropriate,no?

perfect way to celebrate v-day.same danishes,just valentine-ized.

i'm still selling danishes,and will be until further notice,if anybody is interested.

not heart-shaped,but my fave from recntly:

banana chocolate chip danish.

what can i say?banana is the best.it's a banana creme filling sprinkled with chocolate chips before baking,and a fresh banana slice that gets all caramelized and gooey in the center.yump.

speaking of bananas,this long-weekend also came with...

peanut butter-swirl banana bread.

the same,tried n true banana bread i always makes,but with a really rich and sweet and salty peanut butter filling layered and swirled into the loaf.the peanut butter parts are really dense and almost fudgy,but the banana bread part stays light,fluffy,yet moist.

swirl.

not baked,but...

medjool dates,peanut butter,bananas.

more peanut butter goodness from this weekend as well...

peanut butter oatmeal cookies.

duh.no need for words.been said before-best.cookies.EVER.

but the dough is the best part...

i even made some with coconut and chocolate chunks addeded in,peanut butter oatmeal coconut chocolate chunk cookie dough.a mouthful and a half.

oh,speaking of cookie dough...

cookie dough and peanut brittle milkshake @ lula's sweet apothecary.

yeah,i'm sick of ice cream,and yeah i can't afford to be eating out,but YEAH,it was valentine's day and YEAH it was a cookie dough and peanut brittle milkshake.super thick,and delicious.my valentine?

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charming even when he's not working,no?

there was gummi bears,too.

and sour ones...

sweet and sara peanut butter s'mores...

but back at home earlier i had made

s'mores with sweet and sara vegan marshmallows and trader joe's organic dark chocolate with almonds.

have i mentioned sweet and sara before?because they're awesome.

i liked the almonds in the s'more,too-extra crunch.

well,that was a pretty sweet(pun intended...) valentine's weekend.hope yours was too.

and just to remind anybody who wasn't to get their hands on delicious vegan flaky pastry...

there's croissants,too!so email/contact me!

<3

Vegan MoFo Day 3:Sweet and Sara Peanut Butter S'mores

Okay,so when I posted a few weeks back about Sweet and Sara sending me free marshmallow goods and I made the toasted coconut marshmallow cake,they also sent me a Peanut Butter S'mores.
This is by far one of my favourite pre-packaged dessert type things,and every time I go to Sidecar in Seattle I make sure to buy one,or some.They're excellent out of the freezer,too.The marshmallow firms up,and I wouldn't say that it's like ice cream,but it's cold,sugary,soft and special.
There's four dimensions to the peanut butter s'mores.

The chocolate coating,Nice,dark,and not too thick.
The marshmallow centre.Really,the centerpiece of a s'mores(literally!)Sweet and Sara marshmallow has no rivals.It's so marshmallow-y!Sweet and sticky and candy and oooh,so good!
There's the graham cracker bottom,packing a crunchy,neutral,crumbly,graham cracker flavour to balance out the sweetness and flavour of the marshamallow and chocolate.
and a top of the graham cracker is what really makes these special.
a layer of peanut butter,coating the top of the graham cracker holding up a fluffy bed of marshmallow.
imagine,a delicious(Wagon Wheel-esque?) dessert of crunchy cracker,smooth chocolate,sticky sweet marshmallow all topped off with a hint of the best food ever:peanut butter.
I've heard of some people not wanting to try the peanut butter variations in fear,or some who've exclaimed that it was too much going on,but anybody who thinks like that is clearly a horrible person,and going to hell,so watch out.

Peanut Butter and Banana Turnovers and Strawberries n Cream Tunrnovers

Yay!Making pastry dough isn't hard,it's fun!and flaky!and delicious!
Made these over two weeks ago,but they were great.
I was really offended when I heard about a recipe that called a fried tortilla filled with peanut butter and banana a turnover.It may be delicious,but it's a tortilla,not a turnover.and peanut butter!

Peanut Butter and Banana Turnovers






Strawberries n Cream Turnovers




And over 3 weeks ago now I was in Seattle.that means I went to Sidecar for Pig's Peace.It also means I made sure to pick up another one of these:

Sweet & Sara Peanut Butter S'mores.Definitley one of my favourite prepackaged dessert ever.