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Sweet toothiness

poopiebitch — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:12:00 +0000

I have a chocolate orange layer cake cooling on my counter right now, waiting to be iced. Why, you ask? Well… why not?

Yesterday I made a slightly modified version of Jessy‘s Glazed Tempeh with Spiced Apples and Raisins. It made me very happyfaced, indeed! Thanks for the yummy recipe, Jessy!

The other day I was shopping at Kroger and noticed that their Larabars were on sale. They’re normally $1.49, but they were on special for $1.25. Meh, better… but not great. I can get Clif bars for $1, so I have a hard time spending that much on other bars, even though Larabars are my favorite.

Then I noticed that almost all of the bars had 40¢ off coupons stuck to them. DING! Kroger doubles coupons under 60¢, which meant these Larabars, which are normally $1.49, were 45¢! Hello! The cashier looked at me a little funny, but I stocked up. They only had Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Chocolate Coconut Chew and Cashew Cookie (no Ginger Snap, boo), but I wasn’t about to complain. I might just go back and buy more before they go off sale!

Now, I’ll leave you with one of the saddest sights ever – an almost empty cookie jar.

Just cookies

poopiebitch — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:39:00 +0000

Sorry for the sporadic postings lately – I will try to do better! Also, I am working on getting caught up on reading blogs, I promise!

I promised to post a picture of the ice cream sandwiches I made. I made half with Vanilla Rice Dream (shown) and half with Tofutti Better Pecan. I love both, but I think I love the Vanilla a little more because the others seem just a little too sweet. These are so perfect on a hot day I can’t even tell you.

I made another tester for Kelly and Garrick’s vegan cookie book today. Soft Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I subbed some of the regular PB for White Chocolate Wonderful PB, and increased the chocolate chips. They are so soft and amazing, I want to eat them all.

They practically require a glass of soy (or rice or almond) milk.

If you are a peanut butter/chocolate lover, it will be worth buying the book just for this recipe alone.

Also, my friend Ahnah has started a vegan blog of her own, so go check it out!

Cake, cookies and SUSHI!

poopiebitch — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:53:00 +0000

Saturday I made another wedding cake, and I got to use my new cupcake stand for the first time! It was 80 jumbo cupcakes – 40 chocolate with mocha icing and 40 chai with maple icing – and two top tiers that were white almond with rosewater icing covered in vanilla fondant. All assembled the cake was about three feet tall!

I finally made another recipe for Kelly and Garrick’s Vegan Cookie Book – Chewy Banana Cookies!

I made a triple batch because I had some bananas that had to be used pretty much that day. I also made them a little bigger than called for, because I had so many to make.

I’m glad I did that, because I made ice cream sandwiches with the extras, and they are awesome. I will post a picture of those later.

To prove I don’t exist solely on cupcakes and cookies, here are some pictures of my first ever sushi! I made a ton of nori-maki. This was my first roll ever:

I made three kinds. Spicy tempeh rolls with green onions and avocado (the recipe is in V’con), curried butternut squash rolls with apples (my own creation!) and simple avocado and cucumber rolls. Notice I even made the butternut squash rolls inside-out!

I ran out of nori sheets but still had a little bit of rice and fillings left, so I made some nigiri sushi.

I will be making more sushi soon for sure – it was so much easier than I thought it would be!

Cake!

poopiebitch — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0000

As promised, here is a picture of the cakes I delivered on Friday:

The groom is a private investigator, hence the magnifying glass on the groom’s cake. It’s made of sugar and is completely edible.

I made another pizza yesterday. I think this one might have been even better than my last one. I cooked some Tofurky Italian Sausage, which is made with sun-dried tomatoes and basil, and put that on there along with onions, peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil and soy feta:

I also finally got around to making another batch of Kelly and Garrick tester cookies. These were Thin Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Yummy.

Test cookies, care package and Food Not Bombs

poopiebitch — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:36:00 +0000

My latest batch of test cookies for Kelly and Garrick’s vegan cookie book were Peanut Butter Molasses (or Mary Jane) Cookies. Apparently they taste like the candy Mary Janes, but for those of us who have never had it, they taste to me kind of like PayDay candy bars. If you’ve never had either, just trust me that they taste like awesomeness.

I am glad I found time to bake four test recipes this last week, because I’m pretty sure I won’t be making any this week. I have a wedding cake and groom’s cake due on Friday, and believe it or not I’m a little baked out. By the end of this post you may understand why.

I sent a little package to my friend Cloudy last week, and now that I know that everything arrived in okay condition, I’ll post what I made (all vegan, of course)!

Low Fat Banana Bread:

Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti (my first ever biscotti!):

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies (I call this photo “cookiehenge”):

Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies:

Spicy Savory Nuts:

Spicy Sweet Nuts:

And here is a shot of everything together, all wrapped up and ready to go:

Cloudy informed me that everything arrived in good condition, and amazingly still fresh! I guess my mad wrapping skillz payed off. One day I will figure out how to ship a decorated cake.

On Friday I made some cupcakes and cookies for our local Food Not Bombs group. The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center put together a huge event called Bands not Bombs on Saturday, at which Food Not Bombs had a booth and planned a little bake sale to raise money for the pantry, which is used to feed the less fortunate.

My contribution was 16 (I know, weird number, whatever) Vegan Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes, brushed with Kahlua and topped with Espresso Buttercream (sound familiar?):

And five dozen Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies:

I don’t know how the sale went yet (I wasn’t able to make it out to the event), but I’m hoping we were able to raise at least a little money.

And that is why I am kind of tired of baking.

Pizza and more tester cookies

poopiebitch — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:00 +0000

I just made the most awesome pizza, and The Brit won’t even try it. Anybody want some pizza? I used a store-bought crust (because, as I believe we have established, I am lazy) and topped it with pizza sauce, peppers, onions, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, pineapple and soy feta. I didn’t have any black olives, but they would go perfectly on this pizza.

I have also been busy fulfilling my duty as a tester for Kelly and Garrick’s vegan cookie book. Such a chore, I know.

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies, before baking:

And after:

These were so good! Rich and chocolaty with just the right kick of spice. The friend I mentioned in my last post ate like nine of them. Seriously.

A story and tester cookies

poopiebitch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:47:00 +0000

I ate the Stir Fried Eggplant with Tofu again yesterday. I couldn’t help myself. I still didn’t get a picture, but I have a great story to make up for it!

After dinner The Brit and I decided to go hang out at Starbucks. Yes, I practically live at Starbucks (I’m there right now), because I used to work there and it really is a home away from home. Anyway, I could only eat half my food so I took the rest to go. When we got to Starbucks my friend (who works there) started talking about how he hadn’t eaten all day, so I gave him my leftovers. He ate it, and LOVED it. He’s a total omnivore, but he seriously went for this eggplant and tofu big time.

After he got off work we decided to go out again (yes, he’s the same friend I hung out with two nights before – haha!). The Brit decided to go home rather than go out again, and my friend and I went to Huey’s, which is a local hangout that serves burgers and such (and the best onion rings you will ever eat). It was pretty late at this point and we decided to get some food. He let me order so we could split something, and I got a veggie burger with onion rings. They make the best veggie burgers.

Anyway, after we ate that he looked at me and was like “I could totally go vegan if the food is all this good!”. Did I mention I’ve also been bringing him vegan cupcakes and cookies practically every day? I have now made it my goal to convert him. Mwuahahahaha!

Speaking of cookies, I have been selected as a tester for an upcoming vegan cookie book, which is seriously going to rock your face off. I’ve tested two recipes so far.

Zesty Coconut Lime Wedding Cookies:

And Lemon Cornmeal Cookies:

These were so freakin’ good, I can’t wait to try out more recipes!

I have got to stop making so many sweets

poopiebitch — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:31:00 +0000

The first thing I ever learned to cook was ‘no bake’ cookies made with chocolate, peanut butter and oatmeal. I was seven at the time, and I now can’t imagine why any mother would allow a seven year old to boil hot sugar on the stove by herself – but in my family it was fine. I was one of four kids (at the time) and I guess my mother just couldn’t be bothered with the whole ‘possibility of severe burns’ thing. I also learned at that time to make what my mother called ‘tuna casserole’, but you don’t want to know what was in it.

Anyway, I decided to pull that good old standby out of my brain (I don’t think I’ve ever had an actual written recipe for these) and veganize it. It wasn’t exactly difficult to change just a couple of ingredients, but the results were great. I don’t know if it’s just been a long time since I made them or what, but I think they tasted even better than the cookies of my childhood.

Thankfully I managed to give most of them away… otherwise I probably would have ended up eating all of them myself.

When I am sad, I eat a cookie

poopiebitch — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:08:00 +0000

Despite my best efforts, I spent the better part of this morning feeling more than a little down. What is a girl to do?

Bake cookies of course!

Almost nothing makes me feel better faster than baking up a fresh batch of cookies.

I used the recipe for Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies from Veganomicon. I didn’t have any brown rice syrup, so I used maple syrup instead. I was going to use agave nectar but I didn’t have the 1/3 cup the recipe called for. I also was a teensy bit shy of the full two cups of rolled oats, so I just topped up with some steel cut oats. Also, I soaked my raisins in hot water to plump them up a bit before adding them.

Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly. It calls for whole wheat pastry flour or all purpose, and thankfully I had JUST enough whole wheat pastry flour for the recipe. They turned out so yummy. Even The Brit thinks they’re great.

The recipe makes a lot of cookies, so I only baked up a dozen of them. The rest I dropped onto a baking sheet and stuck them in the freezer. Once they were frozen I popped them off the sheet and tossed them into a ziploc bag. Now I have two dozen cookies in the freezer ready to be baked whenever I need them.

And I have the feeling I will be needing them frequently over the next few weeks.