The Vegan Apron
Burninatin' Your Tastebuds
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Nipples of venus chocolate truffles
Some delicious holiday fare - my family are being spoilt this year.
Easy peasy recipe too!
Ingredients:
500 g icing sugar
2 cups of cocoa
70 g of melted copha/vegetable fat
1 generous tablespoon of vanilla essence
1 cup of cool water mixed with 2 tablespoons of eggbinder and allowed to sit for ten minutes and whisked to froth
extra cocoa for rolling
a smidgin of vegan marg (like a teaspoon)
another 4 tablespoons icing sugar
a tablespoon of cool water
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Sift and combine cocoa and icing sugar, pour in egg-binder/water mixture and combine well. Add copha and combine. Consistency should be of a dough/fondant type mix.
Turn out onto a surface dusted with icing sugar. Knead for five minutes, dusting more if it sticks. Dust surface with cocoa and roll into small balls (about a teaspoon each).
Place on plate and allow to harden in fridge. Combine marg, extra icing sugar, vanilla and water to make a paste. Shovel into the corner of a small glad-bag/zip-lock sammich bag, and cut off a tiny bit of the tip of the corner (about a matchstick head's worth). You have an icing bag! Now squeeze 'nipples' onto each truffle, cover again (making sure not to smoosh your nips) and refrigerate overnight.
Easy peasy recipe too!
Ingredients:
500 g icing sugar
2 cups of cocoa
70 g of melted copha/vegetable fat
1 generous tablespoon of vanilla essence
1 cup of cool water mixed with 2 tablespoons of eggbinder and allowed to sit for ten minutes and whisked to froth
extra cocoa for rolling
a smidgin of vegan marg (like a teaspoon)
another 4 tablespoons icing sugar
a tablespoon of cool water
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Sift and combine cocoa and icing sugar, pour in egg-binder/water mixture and combine well. Add copha and combine. Consistency should be of a dough/fondant type mix.
Turn out onto a surface dusted with icing sugar. Knead for five minutes, dusting more if it sticks. Dust surface with cocoa and roll into small balls (about a teaspoon each).
Place on plate and allow to harden in fridge. Combine marg, extra icing sugar, vanilla and water to make a paste. Shovel into the corner of a small glad-bag/zip-lock sammich bag, and cut off a tiny bit of the tip of the corner (about a matchstick head's worth). You have an icing bag! Now squeeze 'nipples' onto each truffle, cover again (making sure not to smoosh your nips) and refrigerate overnight.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
cover of bite
Announcing our upcoming cookbook - here's a taste of the cover!
Stay tuned. It will either be an e-book or it will be sold through Lulu. Half of all proceeds will be going to an animal welfare group.
Stay tuned. It will either be an e-book or it will be sold through Lulu. Half of all proceeds will be going to an animal welfare group.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Food snaps to make you fat just by looking at them
No recipes (comment if you'd like one), but here's a taste of what can be done with some funky vegan skillz in the kitchen. You don't need those cholesterol raising animal products to have a Bacchanalian feast!
Chocolate and Coconut Cake
Moist and decadent, yet (compared to other cakes) refreshingly healthy!
Curried pumpkin pastries
Hearty, pretty and delicious by even the most hardened omni's standards!
Chocolate and Coconut Cake
Moist and decadent, yet (compared to other cakes) refreshingly healthy!
Curried pumpkin pastries
Hearty, pretty and delicious by even the most hardened omni's standards!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
New fresh delicious recipes, your way cometh
Well, after a protracted hiatus (due to work and study keeping us well-in-hand), we're back!
We're sorry for the length of the radio silence; but we promise to start bringing you fresh, vegan goodies once more.
World Vegan Day is coming up on Nov 1st, so we're planning to unleash a new feast then. There'll be an entree, main AND a dessert. Voting on the ingredients will open very soon, so keep stopping by here to look out for that.
To whet your appetites, we'll be posting pictures and/or recipes of some of the tongue tingling things that have been happening in our kitchen. Here's a recipe for some banana walnut muffins I made this morning - with only five key ingredients, what could be simpler?
Big vegan love to you all!
- The Vegan Apron
Banana Walnut Muffins
Great as a breakfast, mid-morning or afternoon snack, these banana muffins are dead-set certs in the "winning friends and influencing people" recipe stakes.
Ingredients
4 mashed, large, uber-gooey ripe bananas
1 cup of bashed up california walnuts
3/4 of a cup of raw sugar (a lot of refined sugar isn't vegan)
2 tablespoons of macadamia oil/vegetable oil
2 cups of organic whole-meal self raising flour (I reckon organic flour tastes better)
**optional - this will brown them slightly**
1 level tspn of bicarb
1 tblspn of apple cider vinegar
Method
This couldn't be easier! Combine mashed bananas with oil and sugar and mix well. Add flour and walnuts and give the whole lot a good stir. If adding the optional ingredients, do so at this stage.
Dollop out into about 12 muffin cases and bake in a pre-heated oven at 190 degrees celsius for 20- 25 minutes.
Try to wait for them to cool before eating. Hot walnuts HURT. Alternately, for the kamikaze eaters among us, spread with butter and go for it.
We're sorry for the length of the radio silence; but we promise to start bringing you fresh, vegan goodies once more.
World Vegan Day is coming up on Nov 1st, so we're planning to unleash a new feast then. There'll be an entree, main AND a dessert. Voting on the ingredients will open very soon, so keep stopping by here to look out for that.
To whet your appetites, we'll be posting pictures and/or recipes of some of the tongue tingling things that have been happening in our kitchen. Here's a recipe for some banana walnut muffins I made this morning - with only five key ingredients, what could be simpler?
Big vegan love to you all!
- The Vegan Apron
Banana Walnut Muffins
Great as a breakfast, mid-morning or afternoon snack, these banana muffins are dead-set certs in the "winning friends and influencing people" recipe stakes.
Ingredients
4 mashed, large, uber-gooey ripe bananas
1 cup of bashed up california walnuts
3/4 of a cup of raw sugar (a lot of refined sugar isn't vegan)
2 tablespoons of macadamia oil/vegetable oil
2 cups of organic whole-meal self raising flour (I reckon organic flour tastes better)
**optional - this will brown them slightly**
1 level tspn of bicarb
1 tblspn of apple cider vinegar
Method
This couldn't be easier! Combine mashed bananas with oil and sugar and mix well. Add flour and walnuts and give the whole lot a good stir. If adding the optional ingredients, do so at this stage.
Dollop out into about 12 muffin cases and bake in a pre-heated oven at 190 degrees celsius for 20- 25 minutes.
Try to wait for them to cool before eating. Hot walnuts HURT. Alternately, for the kamikaze eaters among us, spread with butter and go for it.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Challenge 3: The letter 'C'
Please vote for your favourite ingredient that starts with the letter 'C'! The ingredient with the most votes will star in the weekend cookup.
Voting closes every Friday, 5pm EST.
This week's list of challenge ingredients is as follows:
* Chocolate
* Cauliflower
* Chokoes (we have an over-productive vine out the back of our house!)
* Cinnamon
In the interest of fairness, try and keep it to one vote per person. (This means - recruit listeners for us and voters for you!!) You may split your vote by giving .5 to an ingredient and the rest to another. This is great for the indecisive among you - I know I am! However, you can't split to quarters or thirds. My brain will reduce to the consistency of agave nectar.
Voting closes every Friday, 5pm EST.
This week's list of challenge ingredients is as follows:
* Chocolate
* Cauliflower
* Chokoes (we have an over-productive vine out the back of our house!)
* Cinnamon
In the interest of fairness, try and keep it to one vote per person. (This means - recruit listeners for us and voters for you!!) You may split your vote by giving .5 to an ingredient and the rest to another. This is great for the indecisive among you - I know I am! However, you can't split to quarters or thirds. My brain will reduce to the consistency of agave nectar.
Challenge 2 now closed: Blueberries wins!
Thanks to everyone who voted! Challenge two is now closed and blueberries were the clear winner. Apparently you guys are nuts over those little anti-oxidant rich orbs of delight.
We're going to make you a scrumptious dessert with blueberries which should go up tomorrow. Until then, you can prick your brains with some uber-facts about blueberries from World's Healthiest Foods.
"With flavors that range from mildly sweet to tart and tangy, blueberries are nutritional stars bursting with nutrition and flavor while being very low in calories..."
We're going to make you a scrumptious dessert with blueberries which should go up tomorrow. Until then, you can prick your brains with some uber-facts about blueberries from World's Healthiest Foods.
"With flavors that range from mildly sweet to tart and tangy, blueberries are nutritional stars bursting with nutrition and flavor while being very low in calories..."
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