I'm looking for a vegan mock pumpkin pie (meaning for me without pumpkin) recipe for Samhain but all I found was this: http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/mock-pumpkin-pie It has eggs, and I need vegan ingredients. Do you have any recipes I can use?

For 12 peanut butter cups

• 12 mini cupcake liners
• 3/4 cup semi sweet Chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 t pure vanilla extract
• pinch fine sea salt [if your PB is already salted, it’s optional to add more]
• Directions

1. Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second intervals until smooth. Add 2 generous tablespoons of peanut butter and stir to incorporate. Let cool for 5 minutes.
2. Line a mini cupcake pan with mini liners. Place a heaping teaspoon of melted chocolate in each mini cupcake liner, coating the insides with chocolate using the back of your spoon. repeat with all 12 liners.
3. Place the cupcake tin into your freezer and allow the chocolate to harden.
4. Meanwhile, stir together peanut butter, vanilla, salt, and sugar to form a paste. Make sure you knead in all the ingredients.
5. Divide peanut butter paste into all 12 liners, pressing down gently.
6. Top with a teaspoon of chocolate [melt it again if needed], spreading carefully so that none of the PB paste can be seen.
7. Chill in fridge/freezer for at least one hour.

YUMMY VEGAN BAKED GOODS!

ARK II welcomes you to Panacea (588 Bloor Street West, Toronto, just west of Bathurst Subway station) for a surprise vegan bake sale.

On Sunday, March 13, we will be promoting and selling vegan goodies between 2pm - 5pm.

We hope to see you there!

If you'd like to contribute some of your favourite vegan baked goods, please do so. All support is welcome.

Thank-you,

ARK II

Location
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Hey! Thought I'd share a rather simple recipe as my first post!

 Base
2/3 C self-raising flour
1/2 C brown sugar, tightly packed
2/3 C desiccated coconut
1/3 C margarine, melted

Caramel centre
1/8 C margarine
2 Tbsp golden syrup
Can of vegan condensed milk
3 Tbsp cornstarch

Topping
200-250g dark chocolate

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C.

Grease a 20cm square tin and line with baking paper.
To make the base, sift flour in a medium bowl before adding the brown sugar, coconut and 1/3 of a cup of melted margarine. Mix well until combined. Press into the tin and bake for ten minutes or until base has risen and is slightly browned. Allow to cool while making the caramel.

To make the caramel, melt margarine and the golden syrup in a medium saucepan. Add the condensed soy milk mixture and cook over low heat for 8-10 minutes. Place two tablespoons of the cornstarch in a small bowl, add a few spoon-fulls of the caramel mixture and mix until cornstarch is dissolved. Return to the saucepan and heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens (be careful to scrape the bottom of the saucepan as the mixture will stick). The mixture should be thick. If it hasn't thickened, repeat the procedure with another tablespoon of cornstarch. Pour caramel over the base and bake for another 10-12 minutes, until the rim of the caramel is slightly browned. Let the slice cool to room temperature.

Once slice has fully cooled, melt the chocolate using a double boiler (pot 1/3 filled with boiling water and a metal bowl sitting inside) or microwave. Pour evenly over the slice and place in the fridge to set for at least an hour. When the chocolate is still soft but cool enough to keep its shape, run a knife through the chocolate layer in the sizes that you would like your slices to be. This will prevent the chocolate from cracking when cutting later. Once firm cut the slice and store in a tightly sealed container in the fridge.


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Lemon Cornmeal Cake

I really like the way this cake turned out. I increased the lemon zest because nothing is ever lemony enough for me (yum), but otherwise baked this as written.

I am not so fond of the simple glaze (lemon juice and sugar stirred together) and am going to try different glazes in the future. If anyone has any simple favorites that do not involve powdered sugar, I'd love to hear them.

I have served this with a blueberry coulis, and also strawberry shortcake style. It's delicious either way, or on its own.

( recipe copy/paste under here )

Crossposted to bakebakebake

Here are some sugar cookies that I made today. :]





Recipe:

2 cups sugar
1 cup veganaise
4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1 1/2 cup very vanilla soy milk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

bowl one : mix sugar, veganaise, vv soy milk and vanilla

bowl two : mix flour, baking soda, baking powder

after both the bowls have been mixed completely, mix them together and chill the dough in your refrigerator for an hour.

preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

You can roll the dough out for cookie cutters or just roll it into balls and press it down with a fork/flat something.

10-15 minutes [use your judgement depending on if you like soft cookies or crunchy cookies].

Enjoy :]

Baked donuts!

posted to food_porn, vegancooking, veganfoodpics, thesweetvegan and my own blog, the hardcore herbivore -- please follow! :]



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I had my kids'-party-themed 21st at the weeekend, and I spent two days baking for it. Here was the result. I'm too lazy to track down recipes now, but I'll provide them on request! Enjoy. :)


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( Raspberry and lime muffins, vanilla cupcakes with lemon icing, gummy sweets, chocolate-peanut butter pillows, choc chip cookies and Mexican chocolate snickerdoodles. )

hey folks,


I hope somebody here has an idea.

I planned to make some cupcakes for a friend's birthday in about two weeks. I decided to do a 'test run' with the mexican hot chocolate (I think that was their name but my book's in the kitchen right now and I'm lazy/frustrated) cupcakes from VCTOTW.

I've done cupcakes from the book a couple of times now and I usually really, really love them. but not this time. don't get me wrong, they're tasty...

concidering they died on me. they didn't bake up, or rather shrink back and 'fell' in the middle (I'm pretty sure there's an actual term for that)... also, they were really hard on the outside but soft on the inside. so soft it was still almost wet. ugh. ugly.

I guess it's got something to do with the heat, but I don't really know why, especially since this was the first time this happened to me. I feel like crying right now :/