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Cinnamon Rolls and Chocolate Rolls

Samantha — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:09:06 +0000

A few days ago when I was going through all of my old recipe posts and tagging each with the appropriate ingredients, I soon realized that there was a little bit of a trend going on that I had not really noticed before. I have thought for most of my life that I am not a big one for sweets, but after tagging many of my recipes with the ingredient “sugar”, I realized that I do indeed have a sweet tooth. If anyone has this concept in their minds that a vegan diet is healthy, all they need to do is visit my blog and have a look at the “Browse by Ingredients” list. Sugar, vegan butter, salt... Now that we have that out of the way, let's jump in and take a look at my latest sweet success (which, dear reader, was made as a thank you to my husband for all of his hard work on helping to make this redesign even possible). Related posts:

Vegan Sugar Cookies

Samantha — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:46:04 +0000

Valentine's Day is probably one of my favorite holidays. Maybe it's because of all the girlie colors and hearts and flowers, or because of the shallow romance courtesy of department stores, but I just can't help but like it. Of course, I'm sure that I resented the holiday when I was single or forlorn over someone that wouldn't “Be Mine”. That's probably a given. Now Valentine's Day offers me an excuse to get into the kitchen and try to make something that has equal parts romance and flour and KitchenAid mixer. Related posts:

Vegan Chocolate Eclairs

Samantha — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:03:22 +0000

It's that time again - when hundreds of Daring Bakers bloggers are challenged to create a recipe and hope that the results are somewhat different yet unique at the same time. For vegan and other dietary lifestyles that don't include the standard ingredients that most of the bakers have no problem using, it's that much more of a challenge. If only you could read some of the conversations going on behind the scenes during each month. People feverishly trying to figure out good replacements for eggs or flour, or lamenting about their second or third try in the month because the first miserably failed. But I come to you here on my first try, and I lament that these chocolate eclairs are not really eclairs, but rather miniature cookies (I say this not because I tried to make them cookies, but more or less to comfort myself and live in denial.). In the words of my husband, who after his first bite made a face and exclaimed with irritation, "These aren't eclairs!" (Yet he managed to eat at least half or two-thirds of them.) Related posts:

Vegan Opera Cake

Samantha — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:32:04 +0000

As an average baker, it was a little overwhelming to see The Daring Bakers' latest challenge. As a vegan, it was absolutely frightening. Two words: Opera Cake. Don't know what an Opera Cake is? Well, essentially it is a lot of layers of cake and cream and sugar topped off with a glaze. If you're lucky it will take approximately four hours to construct, and if you're good it will look perfect when cut. And why was this frightening for me as a vegan? Well, aside from the necessary endurance factor, it had around 14 eggs in the original recipe (six of those are egg whites, so if you want to get really technical...). It was pretty clear that this cake depends heavily upon our fine feathered friends. But what is a challenge if it is not challenging?! Related posts:

The Brief History of the Dead – Vegan Waffles or Pancakes

Samantha — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:14:27 +0000

The blind man had found a jar of batter in the refrigerator and was pressing waffles into shape between the hinged metal pans of a waffle iron. Luka could see the batter sizzling and darkening as it spilled over the circumference of the pan.

-The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier When I was growing up my favorite breakfast was buttermilk waffles with just butter. Syrup was sometimes applied, but I often felt it wasn't needed. Now my tastes have changed somewhat, and my husband prefers savory more than sweet breakfasts, so I rarely make myself waffles any longer. The Brief History of the Dead gave me a good excuse to have them this past weekend. As you can see though, I wound up with pancakes instead.

Vegan Dinner Rolls

Samantha — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:26:42 +0000

I have always enjoyed dinner rolls. They are light, fluffy, and taste delicious - especially when warm and slathered with butter. I don't have them very often, though. They are usually high in calories, and not terribly healthy if made solely with white flour. I indulged this Christmas, however, and tried a vegan recipe for dinner rolls that I found on VegWeb.