Sunday is for late night baking!

Vegan MoFo is only on its 4th day and I am already way overwhelmed. Phew!

On Sundays I will pull out neglected cook books and bake a late night sweet treat. I like baking late at night in my quiet kitchen best, with the balcony door open. Since today was spent with napping and having pizza from across the street and hanging out with a friend, I started the Sunday MoFo baking with an old favourite. Whenever I am craving something sweet and need to have it stat! I end up baking The PPK’s chocolate chip cookies. I couldn’t find a single chip of the chocolate kind in my kitchen or pantry, so I chopped up a bar of hazelnut chocolate: yummy result!

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lovely cookies

My one and a half week vacation is starting tomorrow and will be filled with meeting new vegans and future friends, great food and hopefully time to read and cook and bake.

Oh, and ice cream!

hazelnut stracciatella

August has been filled with baked goods!

… hope the trend continues!

I made cupcakes for Stevo’s birthday: simple vanilla and agave cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World with a Manner wafers “butter”cream frosting. YUM!

vegan coconut lime cupcakes w/ lemon whipped cream frosting made for MY birthday (08-08) by lovely  Miss C.

and finally some delicious Black- & Blueberry Muffins (a Vegan Brunch recipe).

sunday baking: pudding topped tartlets

sunday afternoons are perfect for baking. but you knew that already, didn’t you?

vegan baking: cookies!

i haven’t baked chocolate chip cookies in a long time. so when i saw this great and easy recipe on the PPK-blog i simply had to change that fact. these cookies are really soft and chewy on the inside and slightly crispy on the edges and bottom. there really is no excuse to not make them right now.

and since these delicious cookies only take 8 - 9 minutes to bake, i went ahead and made some Chewy Chocolate-Raspberry Cookies from Veganomicon.

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Golden Vanilla Cupcakes, a cupcakes take over the world-recipe.

weekend baking: banana chocolate chip cake

here is the recipe, it even comes with a little video. baking doesn’t get any easier than this. 

vegan baking: Banana Bread Squares

and once again i found myself with way too many overripe bananas, once again i poked around the internets and once again i found a great recipe that uses up 5 (five) ripe bananas and is easy and so delicious.

Banana Bread Squares, a PPK recipe

pre-slicing.

do yourselves a favour and try this recipe now. i had a big piece of this for breakfast. 

vegan baking: Marmorkuchen

rainy summer days were invented for baking, i swear.

i decided to finally make a Marmorkuchen (marble cake), an old childhood favourite of mine.

the recipe was found on the interwebs and was easy enough, eventhough i almost sliced the top of a finger off when mixing the margarine with the sugar. don’t ask, it’s a long embarrassing story, and nothing a band aid couldn’t fix happened.

WHAT

200 g margarine

200 g sugar

1 pack vanilla sugar

3 tablespoons soy flour

400 g flour

1 pack baking powder

1/2 - 1 cup water

2 tablespoons cacao

HOW

mix together margarine, sugar and vanilla sugar

mix in soy flour, flour, baking powder and water and stir well.

put 2/3 of the batter into a well greased pan

add cacao to rest of the batter, then add on top of light batter and mix in dark batter w/ a fork.

bake at 175 Celsius for 50-60 minutes. pre-heat the oven, of course!

let the cake fully cool off before you cut it, ok? enjoy with a cup of coffee.