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Upside down plum cake

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

As I’ve told you before, we’re slowly veganizing our life. It’s going well! I’d say that about 90% of all the foods we consume at home are vegan and we’re trying our best when eating out as well. My friends are catching on and are trying to feed me vegan food when we see each other. A couple of days ago two friends and I had dinner together to discuss life, men and our upcoming trip to a theme park. They made the main course and I made the dessert.

Everywhere I look now people are making upside down cakes. I didn’t want to be any worse than them (and also I still have loads and loads of plums) so I made us an upside down plum cake. It was delicious! We ate it with ice cream (not vegan) and everyone agreed that I am a baking genius (goooooo me!). The recipe is adapted from one a found here.

Upside down plum cakeUpside down plum cake with ice cream

Upside down plum cake:

  • 10-20 plums (depending on the size, you want to cover the bottom of your cake tin)
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 250 ml (1 cup) flour
  • 3 tbsp soy flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 160 ml (2/3 cup) soy milk
  • orgran no egg replacer 2 whites (2 tsp egg replacer and 2 tbsp water)
  • 80 ml (1/3 cup) golden syrup
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract (or if you’re Swedish, you use the powdered version and put it in with the dry ingredients)

Heat the oven to 175C (350F). Rinse the plums, cut them in halves and remove the pith. Cover the bottom of a cake tin (one with removable sides)  (22cm/9in)  with plums. Take them out again and sprinkle them with brown sugar. Let sit for a while. Spray the cake tin with non stick oil.

Combine flour, soy flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and stir them. In another bowl whisk together the soymilk and the sugar for a few minutes, until the sugar has partly dissolved. Add the other liquid ingredients and stir together. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet and stir together.

Put the plums into the cake tin, cover them with the batter and out into the oven for 35-40 minutes. When the cake is done loosen it immediately and invert it onto a plate. Serves a small bunch of hungry people!

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Greetings! Also, cookies!

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

So, before I get into writing the actual cooking element of this post, I should introduce myself and mention what’s up. I’m Alex, Emmie’s boyfriend, and after some discussion Emmie and I decided that I’d help out more with the site (Up until now I’ve just done the coding, maintenance and provided the hosting for the site). I’m not a great cook like Emmie, but I try what I can, and so every so often I’ll be putting in an update or two. So, hello!

Now, to the food! I found a cookie recipe online months ago (click here!), and have wanted to make some ever since, but we’ve not had the ingredients, or the time, or some other reason. I decided a few days ago (and it was the thing that sparked the idea of me updating) to make them. The icing recipe is slightly modified, so I’ll be posting our version here. For the cookies themselves, there’s no point completely copying the recipe from John and Kristie, so I’ll leave it on their site so they get the credit they deserve. They’re completely vegan – The food colouring is E122 rather than E120, which we smartly bought in England as it’s not available anywhere in Sweden.

sugary cookies

Vegan Icing:

  • 480ml (2 cups) confectioner’s sugar (Unfortunately we didn’t have enough, so we food processed some normal sugar, and evidently not enough as our icing was a little grainy)
  • 6 tsp soy milk
  • 4 tsp syrup (preferably corn or golden) – (We made “mock” corn syrup by boiling water and sugar – not so sure if it worked well, next time we’ll be using golden syrup, I’ll let you know how that works)
  • ½ tsp strawberry flavouring
  • Food colouring
  1. If you’re making mock corn syrup, take 5 tbsp water and 10 tbsp sugar, mix them together and then boil over a medium heat until all the sugar is dissolved – Then use as syrup.
  2. In a bowl, stir the sugar and soy milk until it’s smooth.
  3. Beat in the syrup and strawberry flavouring until the icing is smooth and glossy. Add more syrup as needed to prevent the icing from being too thick.
  4. Add food colouring, and leave to dry overnight.

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Scones for breakfast!

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Breakfast; I have it everyday and it’s by far my favourite meal, when I have time to do it properly. Swedish breakfast is usually nothing fancy. We have smoothies, or porridge with fresh fruit and coffee/tea, or yoghurt with muesli/granola and orange juice or just bread with butter and cheese with some tea/coffee. I like this kind of breakfast a lot, on workdays I don’t have time for anything fancy and to be honest I don’t really like cooked food in the morning. Something I do have sometimes is scones, or pancakes. In the weekend when there’s plenty of time for long breakfasts with some cat cuddling and man hugging we bake scones, cook nice tea, bring out the marmalade and spend an hour just talking, eating and enjoying life.

When I was a kid we had scones for breakfast on birthdays, special occasions and when we were really really lucky.It’s always been very special to me. SO nowadays I’m a scones fascist who won’t let anyone eat scones improperly!

Here’s how we did it this morning.

Do you have a special breakfast you just love?

Scones and tea

Scones: Serves 4

  • 8dl (3,33 cups!) wheat flour
  • 1½ tbsp baking powder
  • 1tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 100 gr (3½ oz) vegan margarine
  • 4 dl (1,66 cups) soymilk
  • (yeah I’m sorry, but it really does require thirds of cups here)

Turn the oven on to 225°C (440°F). Mix together the dry ingredients. Add the margarine and work that mix with your hands (you could put it in the food processor) until the margarine is mixed in evenly and the mixture is kind of grainy. Add the milk and stir together. You don’t want to work the dough very long, just mix it together quickly. Divide the dough into four pieces and make a round cake of each one (I usually just grab a fourth from the bowl with floury hands, but you could put it on a flat surface and do it properly). Put the four round cakes on a baking tray with baking paper. Cut each cake in two, but not all the way through and ‘fork it’ a bit (pierce each round with a fork a few times to help it bake evenly and also because that’s how I’ve always done it!). Bake in the oven for about 12-15 minutes until they are golden and have risen quite a bit. break the rounds apart and cut each half in half! Serve warm with butter and marmalade/jam and some nice tea to go with it.

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A random post with burgers, burgers, burgers and other fast food!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

There hasn’t really been much cooking lately. No REAL cooking atleast. No meal planning either. SO basically for the last two weeks (with few but delicious exceptions) we’ve been eating pizza, burgers, more burgers, a pizza and soydogs. Or sandwiches. Or burgers at McDonalds (and before you jump me and beat me senseless let me just tell you that in SWEDEN, tha land of the viking, we have a vegan beanburger on the menu. McBean! So there, you don’t have to murder me, I was hungry!) I don’t know why, but I know how to break it. So I’ve made a little list on what I want to be eating this week and what ingredients we need for that (not only is meal planning a sure way to get myself to make new things it is also the BEST way to save money) and now all I need to do is carry it out and eat delicious healthy food. So, we’ll be having some tofu, some soup, a casserole, a bean stew… the list goes on.

To make this post less useless, have a few photos of food we’ve eaten!

Bean burgers with bought dark bread.. FIBRES! ..and home made fries!
mmmm.., burgers

Burritos are awesome, and take no time at all.
burritos!!

And then I spent almost all day baking hambugerbuns and making burgers. Mmm, burgers!
lentil burger and homemade bread

French toast, because it tastes good! I tofu’d it, which means I’m turning in to a good non egg eater!
french toast tofu

Yesterday I made a fantastic walnut fig bread. When I say awesome awesome. Pics to come, but now I’m off to work!

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Beetroot pie

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

This Saturday me and Alex went into town to check out the flea market and to see what fruit and vegetables were available at the market. It was raining horribly so the flea market was empty. We had a nice breakfast at a nearby café and then went to the market to see what we could find. I found some really nice organic beetroots and onions. There were also lots of different kinds of Swedish grown tomatoes. They looked so amazing I had to buy a few. There were lovely artichokes and aspargus to buy but the price was way too high for us to afford right now. It was a nice day despite not getting to buy any junk at the flea market.

Now, I’m not a vegan, but reading all of your lovely blogs about food certainly makes me want to try out new things. I decided to make a beetroot and lentil pie but instead of using a mixture of eggs, milk and cheese for it I used soymilk, cornflour and some nutritional yeast. Was this a good idea? It tasted great and the colour was amazing. What do you normally use for your pies?

Beetroot and lentil pie

I also used the beetroot to make some nice pink tofu balls! PINK TOFU! They tasted great and looked silly :)

Pink tofu balls

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Stolen Sushi Cupcakes

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

I shamelessly stole the idea for these cupcake decorations (when I say shamelessly I actually mean I COPIED them) I’m not proud in the way you’d be proud if you made something amazing and original, but I am proud in the way you are when something turns out really nice. I saw it posted on the Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World blog and the original picture is here. Sushi cupcakes? You are my hero!

One of my very best friends is coming over for a sushi dinner here tomorrow. I figured I needed some dessert and that the cupcakes I had ‘starred’ on my google reader would be just perfect for this. So I made some incredibly fattening coconut muffins and put some cream cheese and sugar cream on them. Decorated with marzipan, coconut and vegetarian fishies.

Come into my tummy oh so very yummy

I am doing so much cooking and kitchen stuff these days it seems like I’m attached to the kitchen with a chain. I love it though and thanks to my lovely man I don’t have to do the dishes. Imagine that! Making a hell of a mess and then not cleaning it up yourself. He gets benefits though, like getting to eat lots of lovely food and being ‘forced’ to try out cupcakes and whatnot.

Tomorrow will be a lovely day consisting of cleaning, preparing sushi, making veggie pasties and talking talking talking with my dear friend. I can hardly wait!

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From Russia* with LOVE ✮

Monday, March 5th, 2007

*Russia being Sweden

I love you cupcake

These are the lovely cupcakes me and my man made yesterday. I’m on a diet, and I’m so very dangerous to myself. I’m my greatest enemy. Who can blame me though, everything I make is just SO good!

They’re far from vegan. There’s both egg, margarine and milk in them and the cream on top is cream cheese with caster sugar, lemon peel and vanilla. There’s some awesome melted dark chocolate in them and if I had had some white chocolate buttons I would have added them too. They’re chocolatey enough but not too rich. Sometimes you want a chocolate coma and sometimes you’re happy with just a bit of chocolate and sugar.

Double Chocolate Cupcakes:

  • 175g (6 oz) dark chocolate
  • 50g (2 oz) melted butter
  • 1 egg
  • 350ml (12 fl oz) milk
  • 375g (12 oz) flour
  • 1,5 tbsp baking powder
  • 50g (2 oz) cocoa powder
  • 100g (3½ oz) caster sugar
  • (white chocolate buttons 75g (3oz), or better yet, crushed daim, or smarties or SOMETHING)

Heat the oven to 200ºC (400ºF). Melt the chocolate, either in the microwave (my method of choice) or do it the old fashioned way in a bowl over simmering water. Melt the butter and stir it in with the melted chocolate. Take it off the heat.

Beat the egg and the milk togheter and then beat that mix into the chocolate mix, slowly.

Mix sugar, flour, baking powder and cocoa powder in a bowl and then add the chocolate mix. (Add chocolate buttons or whatever you choose here!). Fold together until combined.

Put the mixture in 12 paper cups and bake in the oven for about 20-25 minutes. Let cool and put frosting on.

Cream cheese frosting with vanilla and lemon:

  • 200g (7 oz) of cream cheese
  • 75ml (2½ fl oz or about 4 tbsp) confectioners sugar
  • peel of half a lemon
  • 1 tsp vanilla powder

Mix togheter (and taste it to see if you like it or if you should add more of something, some people want it really sweet and some want more lemon). Put in the fridge and let it cool. Frost cupcakes! ENJOY!

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