Showing posts with label joy of vegan baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joy of vegan baking. Show all posts

Friday, October 17, 2008

VeganMoFo day #17 - Bake Sale for Giving Campaign

I made some stuff for the bake sale at Andy's work.

First up: Ginger gems cookies from Vegetarian Times. They are really tasty because they have walnuts (chopped really fine), crystalized ginger and a lime glaze. Typically I drizzle it and make cool designs, but not today. I press them very flat before baking. They keep their shape well, so would be good w/ cutters. A very good holiday cookie.

I used 1/2 whole wheat flour instead of all whole wheat. I also burned 1/2 of them --- woohoo!


I also made mini blueberry scones using the Classic Currant Scones recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking. I made a thick glaze made of powdered sugar and lemon juice. They needed it because the blueberries weren't sweet enough. Next time I will use some dried sweetened blueberries so I won't need glaze.


Bringing vegan items to the sale would have been pseudo successful if the vegans out there didn't know they were vegan, so I made tags for them that had the ingredients listed. I had Andy send an email to the veg alias letting them know about the jack-o-lantern secret code on the tag so they could easily spot them.

Friday, October 10, 2008

VeganMofo day #10 - Scones slathered in kiwi jam ectoplasm

Day # 10 in Vmofoville and I have to say I was getting a bit tired and afraid that I wasn't going to figure out what to make next. Not that I don't have a huge shelf filled with cookbooks that are underutilized - Hey, I know I'm not the only one in that situation.

Then for some reason I got energized. I'm sure it wasn't from picking up dog poo outside. Was it these super delicious easy to make Classic Currant Scones from The Joy of Vegan Baking? I totally think so. It made around 10 decently sized scones. I used the rest of the Trader Joe's dried fruit mix (cran, blueberry, golden raisin) instead of currants. The goo you see next to the scone is kiwi jam that I made from a VT recipe last month. I like the jam even w/ the issues I had w/ the recipe (totally my fault).



I think dinner will be tacos again because the avocado is ripe and I love tacos.

I also had a long chat w/ my mother on the phone today. She gave me some ideas of what to do to fix my bread making issues. I guess I will give it one more try. sigh. I also got some info on some of my lineage. I'm so clueless w/ all that.