06/12/2009

Vegan Mince Pies

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The halls are decked with bells and holly, the Christmas Cake has been baked and is being fed copious amounts of brandy until it's ready for decorating and the first batch of mince pies have been baked.
It's CHRIST-MAAAAAAAAS!

Vegan Mince Pie Recipe
makes 12

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups (175 grams) all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
1/2 cup (113 grams) vegan margarine
a bit more than 1/8 cup ice water but not quite a 1/4 cup (40 ml)
1 jar of vegan mincemeat

Method
Sieve the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl and add the margarine. Rub the margarine into the flour until it resemble fine breadcrumbs. Add the water and gather together to form a dough. Cover with clingfilm and chill for half an hour (you AND the dough hee hee hee).

Set oven to 205 degrees centigrade (400 Fahrenheit).

Grease a 12 mini muffin pan with margarine and dust with flour. Tap the excess flour off (do this over the sink).
Divide the dough in half and lightly flour a work surface. Roll one half of the dough until about 1/8 inch thick and cut into 12 rounds that are slightly bigger than the muffin tins. Place the rounds in the muffin tin and put about a teaspoon of mincemeat in each round. Roll out the second half of dough as before and cut out your star shapes.
With a pastry brush gently dab some water on each of the star points and place over each pie - pressing the points down gently. Brush with soya milk and dust with sugar and bake in the oven for 15-20 mins.
Take out of pan and cool.

Try saving one for Santa!

GO VEGAN!

20/11/2009

Oh oh oh it's magic!

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I have made it my end of year resolution to make all my friends birthday cakes from now on.

The first one up was my friend Wayne Blane a.k.a Mr Magic man.
He's one of my bestest bestest friends and he's a super awesome magician to boot. The theme for his cake was pretty easy.

Alakazam!

This was two layers of the Jelly Doughnut Cupcake recipe from Veganomicon. Slathered in the middle was Raspberry Jam and then topped with rolled icing. The cards were made with the same rolled icing and then decorated using food colouring and a very steady hand.
Wayne LOVED it (he had three slices!) and I have to say I was pretty impressed too.
I'm really looking forward to making all my friends cakes - I have some super awesome ideas already!

GO VEGAN!


29/10/2009

Vegan MoFo 2009 Day #29: Hallow-vegan Cake

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Totally inspired by River's awesome little cakes was I.
There are two layers of the Fauxstess Cupcake recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance, layered between that is vegan buttercream. The same buttercream is spread round 3 sides of the cake and then I dragged a fork around the three sides to make the pages. The top and spine of the book is made using
Ginger's Chocolate Ganache recipe.
I had a little buttercream left over so I chucked this in too.
This should keep the ghouls happy this Halloween!!

GO VEGAN!
GO MoFo!!

28/10/2009

Vegan MoFo 2009 Day #27: Do you ever get that sinking feeling? (or not as the case might be)

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These are not the Jelly Donut Cakes from Veganomicon that went wrong because my jam didn't sink.
Nope.
These are "A zombie sucked out my eyeball" cakes.

(incidentally - if anyone can shed any light on the reason why my jam didn't sink I would appreciate it. I followed the ingredients EXACTLY except I used sunflower oil instead of canola because I can't buy canola or rapeseed oil anywhere). Anyhoo - they taste AMAZING!
I've had four already.
BURP!

GO VEGAN!
GO MoFo!

26/10/2009

Vegan MoFo 2009 Day #26: Lost in translation

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Bought in my local Todo Todo which is the equivalent of a pound shop/dollar store. Makes me laugh every time I read it.
Not really a MoFo entry and I think to pose as one would be lamest of the lame. But I am making a roast dinner tonight and you've all seen me do that before!
Lots and lots and lots and lots of times.
And you all know what we'll be having for dinner tomorrow too.
But never-the-less - I know how you all like pornz, so here ya go.


GO VEGAN!
GO MoFo!!

25/10/2009

Vegan MoFo 2009 Day #25: Market goodies

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It's not often this lazy MoFo'er can drag herself out of bed on a Sunday morning, but the clocks going back an hour meant that time really was on my side today and I took full advantage of it.

This bounty came to 11 euros!!
That's 10 quid or 16 us dollars or 17 Australian dollars.
Pretty cool huh.
I'm going to make a real effort to go every Sunday from now on.
I also bought my favourite olives ever.


That's an olive stuffed with a whole clove of garlic. Just so as you can appreciate the size of these here's another photo.

No, I don't have small hands they are BIG olives man

I made the most simple and delicious salad for my lunch

see

It was just lettuce, olives, chickpeas and tomatoes with a mahoosive dollop of Plamils Mayo. It was so so yuumy.

GO VEGAN!
GO MoFo!!

24/10/2009

Vegan MoFo 2009 Day #24: Bread take two

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TADAA!
I've done it - I have made good tasty bread in my new bread machine. WooHooo!
The recipe is from Allinson Bread booklet and is as thus:

White Bread
1 1/8 cups of water

2 1/4 Tablespoons Sugar

1 1/4 teaspoons Salt
2 1/2 Tablespoons Sunflower Oil

3 cups strong white bread flour

1 1/4 teaspoons Allinson Easybake Yeast

Put everything in the bread machine in the order given and set on "Basic".

How easy peasy is that. I had some for my lunch spread with Tartex - it is super delicious. This has given my confidence a real boost and I can't wait to go to the supermarket and get some special ingredients and start making some fancy bread.

GO VEGAN!
GO MoFo!!