Vegan MoFo Day 17:Get (Peanut Butter) Sconed!

So on Tuesday when I was baking all that biscotti and whatnot and we had the impromptu tea party,I also whipped out some peanut butter chocolate scones.They're from My Sweet Vegan,which I got last winter and,if you remember made a plethora of recipes from.I don't know how I overlooked these,but I did.I mean,peanut butter scones?That sounds like it just might be right up my alley.Just might.Maybe.Do I even have an alley?
I probably wouldn't have known about them if Jess,a week and a half ago,when we were taking brunch pictures with Isa,said "what about Hannah's peanut butter scones?" when I was talking about how we need to make peanut butter scones.And therefore I was enlightened that My Sweet Vegan had a peanut butter scone recipe.Who knew?
Well,okay,Jess knew,and I'm sure Hannah did,too.



Oh,and these were a hit.
I was surprised,honestly,because they're scones,and I'm not one to talk about things being too sweet/somethings not supposed to be very sweet,because I LOVE really really sweet things,but I thought that everyone would not realize that scones aren't supposed to be sweet or like muffins/cake and be disappointed.Wrong.I underestimated everyone.Or maybe I underestimated myself?
The recipe made 4 scones.Patrick(younger brother) and Ryn(Sarah;s boyfriend) ate 3.There was one left,and Sian got it.Haven't gotten her opinion on them yet,but Ryn was really excited about them,and Patrick asked to eat more of them.I got one bite!And I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't crushed the corner of one causing it to fall off as I took them out of the oven,but I did,and I liked it.I'm really into the bread-y texture with a big peanut butter background,but not overly peanut buttery.And they were moist,too.
I didn't make the icing from the book,rather unsed chocolate chips.



p.s i talk about jess in this post and i cleverly named it after her.what a small world full of coincidences and clever intricacies!

bananas,chocolate,almonds,peanut butter...some of my favourite foods

Banana Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding from Veganomicon.
This was my first time making bread pudding and second time eating it.I first fell in love with it when I had it in Portland in the summer.It was made my Jess and Julie and was INCREDIBLE.This bread pudding does not come far behind in virtuosity.Bananas and chocolate chips.Not too sweet,but really decadent and filling.Even more so because,well,you know me,I added peanut butter to the bottom of my serving dish.Yes.I think I died.




oh,and the bread for the pudding was pretty awesome,too.


Sesame Oatmeal Cookies from My Sweet Vegan.
I would think that these would have banana in the title somewhere,but whatevs.I also thought nobody else would eat them,since they have applesauce,banana,and tahini in the recipe, but there's only 11 left out of the 20 made at 6:00 this evening.I think that I would be able to tell that there was banana in them even if I hadn't made them because when I veganized a Martha Stewart banana oatmeal cookie recipe in September they had the exact same texture as these and baked just like these,too.
I made half of the batch with chocolate chips.


Almond Avalanche Bars from My Sweet Vegan.
These were AMAZING.I wasn't expecting them to be so good.Y'know,just another bar cookie.Boy was I wrong.Very very rich.The taste is very sweet and nutty with a texture akin to cookie dough a top of a really yummy and crispy crust.Very dense.And the chocolate chips felt right at home.
The book says that a large helping of these could be considered a "heart healthy" breakfast.Ha.maybe if eating pure fat and sugar is great for yr heart.
My dad said "are these fattening" and I said "I dunno,probably.Why?"
he says "because they're so damn tasty".He didn't want to take another one home with him(after eating two) because they were "too much".

Though the recipe calls for 16oz almond butter...that's 2 cups,or one big jar.Almond butter is really $$$.But I will make these again.I added dried cranberries to half of the recipe because I LOVE the chocolate,almond and cranberry combination.




carrot spice muffins with pecan streusel.
this is a veganized recipe from a flour website my mom used to make vegan for me all the time when i lived with her.very very good and moist and spicy.I really like carrot muffins with peanut butter.I know,it's weird,but I had one like that at a hospital once and fell in love.

Peanut Butter Cinnamon Rolls!!!

RRF's Peanut Butter Cinnamon Rolls.
Yep.I don't know where to begin.It's like everything I ever wanted in a cinnamon roll,but peanut butter.So peanut buttery.There's A LOT of fat in these.And even more deliciousness.It's my own recipe and i'll type post it eventually,maybe tonight,but i'm really busy okay,I swear.







and hey,it's me on the same day:

Caramel Macchiato Cheesecake

Caramel Macchiato Cheesecake from My Sweet Vegan.
Why the eff isn't Hannah paying me to promote this thing?
This only lasted a couple of hours.Everyone loved it.Including me.Probably my 3rd favourite recipe from my sweet vegan so far.My favourite is the triple threat chocolate cheesecake,and I thought that this was almost as good,but not AS good.I love the coffee and caramel flavours,obviously they're paired here for a reason. Oh and with the chocolate crust really made it good.I put chocolate covered espresso beans on top and crushed in the crust,too.
The caramel sauce didn't work the first time;it hardened as soon as I added the rest of the arrowroot,so I made it again and just cooked it less.It sets up fast,though!

I would also like to mention that Daniel didn't even get to have a slice,and this is tragic because my sister Sarah worked at Starbucks for 2.5ish years and would always bring us free drinks.He would ALWAYS get a caramel macchiato.Despite the fact that he was/is so anti-Starbucks.But I think he looked at it as more of "bringing down the man from the inside" since the drinks were free and using us Starbuck's "valuable resources".Yes,really bringing them down.He hasn't had one in years,but he still loves them.Oh well,I made him the cinnamon rolls he wouldn't shut up about wanting after I made the others for Joanne and Glenn.





Daniel's friend Joel wanted his hand to represent a "piece of cake"."peace of cake".HA.


here's some pictures from the weekend just cuz:

best pie ever and black bottom blondies

So,besides the totally incredible,melt in yr mouth,super smooth and chocolate-y,so good it needs no words(hence the post) cheesecake I posted a couple days ago,there has been more baking going on.

I made SMLOVE purely out of an intense craving I got last night after seeing mrsbadmouthkt's porn of it.As you may know,smlove is my favourite dessert,well besides the cake i made for my birthday,but w/e,smlove is amazing and i made it in November and thought i'd give it a while before making it again,and i was planning on making cheesecake instead,but no,I NEEDED smlove.I needed to be shown smlove.And I needed it with a glass of chocolate peppermint soymilk.Which I never crave and wouldn't usually want,but it needed to be done.SO good.So glad I gave in.






hey there


i also had it on new years eve just past midnight


Black Bottom Blondies from My Sweet Vegan.
The black bottom brownies sector is really really dense and fudgy and the blondies are everything that was perfect about the butterscotch blondies all on top.These were for my friend Karl,but I WILL be making these again.





chack out that "fudge".

chocolate cubed.

Happy 28!

I sure freakin am passionate about dessert

I finally received my copy of My Sweet Vegan by Hannah Kaminsky in the mail from Side Car for PIg's Peace (in Seattle).That's a thank you note on the cover,btw.ANYWAYS,first thing I did was make the bananas foster cake.it's real good.this is exciting.





Bananas Foster Cake from my sweet vegan.
this is such a good cake!like the cake part is SO light and fluffy and very very banana-y.and the caramel frosting is excellent.i love bananas,caramel and rum,so this cake is like perfect.i knew i would make it first,seeing the picture of it on hannah's blog back in august is what got me interested in her blog/book and boy am i glad i did.





how awesome it is that fellow blogger hannah(who leaves such sweet comments on mine sometimes!) is only a year older than me and accomplished creating such a beautiful and inspiring book.
i can't wait to try out some more recipes from the book!they're all really,really creative or unusual.definitely something to be getting excited about.