Veg for Life

I like to give the kids a good snack and sometimes muffins just fit the mood.  These are sure to please and I hope you will like them as much as we do. So if you're feeling funky, put the lime in the coconut:) Lime and Coconut Muffins yields 12 muffins 1 cup All Purpose Flour 2/3 cup Spelt Flour 1/3 cup Coconut Flour 1 tbsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Salt 1/2 cup Unsweetened Shredded Coconut 1/3 cup Tofutti Sour Cream Substitute or Plain Non Dairy Yogurt 2/3-3/4 cup So Delicious Coconut Milk (until it is the right consistency) 2/3 Demerara sugar 1/2 cup Extra Light Olive Oil 1/3 cup Lime Juice 1 tsp Vanilla Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line 12 muffin tin cups with paper liners. Combine flours, baking powder, salt and coconut in a large bowl, using a whisk to blend together. In a medium bowl, whisk together the sour cream substitute, coconut milk, sugar, oil, lime juice and vanilla. Pour into the bowl with the flour mixture and stir until just combined. Divide the batt...

Teff Flour Tortillas Tortillas.  I vary my recipe depending on what flour I have on hand.  This time I had run out of spelt and forgotten to add it to the grocery list.  I did have Teff flour.  Dare I try it? :) You know me,  I had to.  My kids and husband loved them and wanted another batch the next day. 1 cup Unbleached All Purpose Flour 1 cup Teff Flour 3/4 tsp. Salt 1/4 tsp. Baking Powder 1/4 cup Nonhydrogenated Vegetable Shortening 2/3 cup Warm Water In a large mixing bowl stir together flours, salt, and baking powder. Add shortening and cut in with a pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles sand.  Pour in water and stir together with fingers to form a stiff dough.  Knead for a minute to form a smooth ball. Divide dough into 8 pieces, roll into balls, and let rest for 10 minutes.  Dust counter with flour and roll out the dough into very thin circles with a rolling pin. Heat cast iron griddle over me...

Cherry Muffins this morning. I had been wanting to experiment with creating a vegan muffin recipe, it was a win = win scenario. I worried that they wouldn't be perfect especially when we got the phone call that my father-in-law was coming over to see the kids as I was stirring in the cherries, just before putting the muffin batter in the muffin tin.  What would I do if they flopped?  :)  Luckily, the muffins came out beautifully.  More importantly both VegBoy and VegGirl voiced their approval.  So, before I forget the measurements I am posting the recipe. Cherry Muffins 1/2 cup Frozen Pitted Cherries (cut into quarters and leave in a colander while you prep the other ingredients) 1 cup Unbleached All Purpose Flour 2/3 cup Spelt Flour 1/3 cup Coconut Flour 1 Tbsp. Baking Powder 1/2 tsp. Salt 1 cup Non Dairy Milk 1/4 cup Non Dairy Sour Cream substitute or Non Dairy Plain Yogurt 1/4 cup Canola Oil 1/3 cup Demerara Sugar 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract P...

My son wants the orange cake with blueberry frosting for his birthday party.  It was very tasty and I will probably try using cranberry juice, cherry juice, pomegranate juice, pineapple juice, etc. in future cakes.  It should be just as tasty.

VegBoy wanted me to make an orange cake with Blueberry Frosting. I adapted the frosting by using Earth Balance instead of butter and organic vegan powdered sugar instead of regular powdered sugar.  The cake I made as follows. Orange Cake 1 & 3/4 cups  Unbleached All Purpose Flour 1 & 1/4 cup Spelt Flour 1/2 cup Coconut Flour 2 tsp Baking Soda 1 tsp Salt 2 cup Orange Juice 2 cup Demerara Sugar 2/3 cup Canola Oil 2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar 1 tsp Lemon Juice Grease and flour 9x13 pan.  Preheat oven to 350 F.  Whisk together flours, baking soda, and salt.  In separate bowl stir together demerara sugar, orange juice, oil, vinegar, and lemon juice.  Add wet ingredients to dry and whisk to combine.  Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes.

It didn't have enough coffee flavor in my opinion.  I do plan to test steaming coffee beans in the coconut milk then straining out the beans leaving the coffee infused coconut milk to add with the coffee to give it more flavor and if you want to try it that way, let me know if that solves the problem. :)  I will be posting a Chai Oatmeal cake recipe tomorrow or the next day.  Coffee Flavored Cupcakes  1/2 tsp Salt 1 tsp Baking Soda 3/4 cup Unbleached All Purpose Flour 1/2 cup Spelt Flour 1/4 cup Coconut Flour 1 cup Demerara Sugar 1/2 cup Coffee 1/2 cup So Delicious Coconut Milk 1/2 tsp Vanilla 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar 1/3 cup Canola Oil Preheat oven to 350F.  Grease muffin or canoe tins; or Grease and Flour 8 inch square pan.  Sift together dry ingredients.  Stir sugar in to wet ingredients.  Add wet to dry and stir until combined.  Spoon into muffin tin or pour into cake pan.  Bake cupcakes 15 minutes or until toothpick ...

He is wanting a new and different cake.  I will be posting at least two possibly three cake recipes in the next week.  Anyone feeling the need to try them with us and give feedback will be appreciated.  I will have to make enough on party day to feed about 20-30 adults and kids.  Most of these guests will be non-vegans forced or encouraged to eat vegan at the party.  I am disallowing them from bringing non-vegan food as I feel it would be cruel to make him watch them eat things that he can't have on his birthday.  For those who are thinking I should give him a break and let him have whatever he wants on his special day, he has seizures that are much more severe and frequent when he is exposed to even tiny amounts of animal proteins.  For whatever reason, his body can't process them at all.  VegBoy has requested my vegan nacho casserole for his birthday meal, I will use homemade seitan instead of the TVP since my younger sister is allergic to soy...