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Chewy chocolate cookies

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I’m getting married in just over a week! So now everything is about baking, cooking and making sure everything will work out. We’re having a nice small dinner with just our closest friends and family and I’m really looking forward to it all.

Today I went shopping for food with my mother. I bought most things we need for the food, except for vegetables, and then bought extra things. How can I say no to an apple mint plant for the garden? Or a wild strawberry plant? I simply couldn’t! In about a week we’re going out again to get fresh vegetables and the last few things we need and then we’re set to go.

The afternoon was spent baking two types of cookies. For dessert we’re thinking a little buffet with cookies, cake, a nut tart and cinnamon buns. Coffee and tea to go with it.

I posted the recipe for the jam cookies here. The other recipe is not my own, but it already exists on the net so I figured a translation into English would be fine.

Chewy chocolate cookies: Makes 30-40 cookies.

100 grams (3.5 oz) baking margarine
100 ml (1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) caster sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup (I guess corn syrup or maple would be fine too, although maple would be tastier!!)
1 tsp vanilla essence
200 ml (1/2 cup + 1/3 cup) flour + possibly 2 tbsp extra
2 tbsp cocoa powder, sifted
1/2 tsp baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C (350F). Cream together margarine, sugar, syrup and vanilla essence. Sift in flour, cocoa powder and baking soda and quickly work together to a dough. Put parchment paper on a baking/cookie tray. Divide the dough into two pieces and make two rolls about the length of your cookie tray. Put rolls on the tray and flatten them a bit with your hands. Use a fork to make nice grooves and to flatten more. Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes. Don’t overbake them! Let them cool on tray for just a minute or two and then cut them diagonally into about 2 cm/about 1 inch strips while still warm. If you cool before cutting you’ll end up with cookie crumbles. Leave on tray until completely cool.

Recipe in Swedish can be found here.

Tags: baking, cookies, sweet
Posted in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »

Strawberry lime pie

Friday, February 15th, 2008

We didn’t do anything special for valentines day, it’s not a big day for me. I did get a few gifts from Alex however, an awesome black apron with the text ‘My kitchen is a mess but I’m not’ (which is entirely true!), some chocolate, a cool card and some flowers. Oh, and some shower gel, because apparently I stink?

We didn’t have anything awesome baked yesterday, but we did today! A no-bake strawberry lime pie which was just amazing. I spotted the recipe over at Tofu for two and knew right away I wanted to make it. Even if you’re not interested in pie (which is TOTALLY blasphemous btw) you should still visit their blog, it’s full of awesome tasty recipes, and the photos are great.

My mum and sister came over for fika (coffee and something small and sweet) and both really liked it. I will definitely make it again,and maybe change things around. I’m already imagining lots and lots of blueberries…
Enough talking, have some pictures! Behold the glory of the strawberry lime pie!

Recipe found here.

Tags: lime, no-bake, pie, strawberry, sweet, vegan
Posted in Uncategorized | 18 Comments »

Vegan Toffee Popcorn

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Everyone needs something sweet every once in a while. These are golden, slightly sticky delicious toffee popcorn. It might just be the best thing ever invented! Alex and I were looking online yesterday to try and find things we want Alex’s mother to send us. We’ve run out of nutritional yeast (and the Swedish bjäst tastes nothing like as good as the English yeast), we have no vanilla extract left.. life has been boring lately. Anyway, I told Alex that we needed to make sure his mum sent us some toffee popcorn… and then it hit me: I CAN MAKE MY OWN!. So I did and here are the tasty tasty results.

Sticky toffee popcorn:

1 liter (4 cups) popcorn (I make mine the old fashioned way, with oil in a big pot)
3 tbsps vegan margarine
3 tbsps brown sugar
2 tbsps golden syrup

Melt the margarine in a pan. Add sugar and syrup and stir together. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 minutes. Pour the hot toffee over the popcorn, cover with a lid and shake like crazy. Stir through to make sure there’s toffee everywhere. Leave to cool and harden. Eat! Stuff yourself! Be happy and do the happy dance!

Tags: popcorn, sweet, toffee
Posted in UNhealthy, gluten free, quick, sweet | 21 Comments »

Food porn and something is wrong with me, I dont’ like brownies!

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

I’m too tired lately to actually cook anything REAL. So we’re having simple tried and tested stuff that doesn’t require any thinking. I’m probably ill. I made the awesomest vegan brownies in the universe and I usually love them, today I couldn’t’ finish my piece, it was disgusting. Alex reassured me that it was damn tasty so clearly I’m the problem. GAH! Ok, so this post doesn’t have any recipes, just some random pictures because I need to post them somewhere. Actually, when I say tried and tested i’m not completely truthful, we did make some things we’ve never made before. Like the Apple oat pancakes from Vive le Vegan!

Tomorrow we’re going to the Swedish migrations board to get some things sorted out with Alex’s staying in Sweden. It’s always such a pain going there, there’s hundreds of people and everyone is angry and stressed. I’m going to bring my best smile and try to get through the day with a minimal amount of pain.

Ok, on to the food.

The tastiest tofuballs in history with a zucchini tomato sauce and some whole wheat pasta. It’s goooood!

And tasty tasty pancakes! This might sound a little weird, but I loved these because they remind me of oatmeal porridge with apples, but fried in a pan. I told you it was weird, normal people just don’t’ want fried up oatmeal. We both loved this so much.

‘Trifle’! When we were in England this summer we bought lots and lots of vegan jelly/jello. Alex has told me about his mum’s ‘trifle’ many times and this summer I could finally try it. I liked it! It’s basically spongecake pieces in jelly, but it’s delicious. I realise it’s not quite like normal trifle, but it’s good nonetheless.

Vegan lamingtons, because we had spongecake left over from making Alex’s mum’s ‘trifle’ and we really wanted more sweet things.We love our sweets!

Tags: baked, jelly, lamingtons, sponge cake, sweet, trifle
Posted in Other things, baked goods, breakfast | 9 Comments »

Coconut banana bread

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I was given a lot of bananas yesterday that I had no idea what to do with. So today, after spending the entire morning slaving (we had to get out of bed at 5am to go to the flea market and sell all our stuff) and most of the afternoon slaving (cooking!) I decided to try to make some banana bread. I don’t think I’ve ever had banana bread ever although the word is funny, just like banana hammock, but it sounded good enough. So I googled and here’s what I found, Isa’s recipe on the ppk. I modified it a bit and it came out totally delicious! Served warm with some soy ice cream and the very last of our non vegan caramel sauce. Tomorrow I’ll be having friends over for dinner and I’m going to make some of my own caramel sauce. it’s all going to be totally fab!

Also: I TOTALLY had no idea that quiche isn’t pie! Or well. I was googling for pies (savoury/salty) but I couldn’t find anything but sweet pies. No wonder, apparently you Americans call it quiche! Alex swears it’s not an English thing ‘it has to be American’ but I don’t know. You should have told me!

Coconut banana bread:

½ cup brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1/4 cup margarine
1/4 cup apple sauce
1/4 cup desiccated coconut
3 very ripe bananas, mashed well
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup soy milk, mixed with 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1 tsp vanilla flavour
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt

Directions
Preheat oven to 175C (350F). Grease up a bread pan and coat with desiccated coconut. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Cream together the margarine, apple sauce and sugars. Mash up the bananas and add to the margarine mix. Pour the apple cider vinegar into the soy milk and stir. Add to bananas. Add in the coconut. Mix together the wet ingredients with the dry. Mix well and pour into the bread pan. Bake in the oven for about an hour. It’s delicious!

Tags: baked, banana, coconut, sweet
Posted in baked goods, vegan | 8 Comments »

Almond plum pie

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

When was the last time your awesome mother baked you a delicious vegan plum pie? I bet she’s not as awesome as my mother, she made one a couple of days ago! It was in one of those weekly magazines with recipes, crossword puzzles, true stories from people’s lives and random jibberish. She veganized it (which was really easy) and then got baking. It was totally fab!

There’s also been a lot of bad things happening lately, I haven’t slept much and I’m beginning to feel autumn coming (in terms of how I feel mentally) so things aren’t awesome right now. That’s why there’s been such a lack of updates. Hopefully I’ll get some much needed sleep soon and wake up feeling tip-top. Tonight there’s dinner at a friends house though, so yay!

Almond plum pie:

Pie crust
4 dl (1 and 2/3 cups) flour
3 tbsp sugar
150 gr (5 1/3 oz) vegan margarine
2 tbsp cold water

Filling
700 gr (1,5 lbs) ripe plums
½ dl (3,5 tbsp) sugar
1 tbsp flour
1 tsp ground cardamom
1 tsp cinnamon
1 dl (1/3 cup + 1tbsp) finely chopped almonds
2 tbsp vegan margarine

Glaze
½ dl (3,5 tbsp) apricot marmalade
1 tbsp water

Pie crust: In a food processor, blend the flour, sugar and margarine together until it looks like a coarse meal. Add in the water and mix until it forms a ball of dough. Roll out to a big circle, about 30 cm across. Put in a springform pan, about 22 cm across, don’t bother with smoothing out the dough around the edges, it looks much more rustic if you don’t. Put in the fridge for about 30 mins to let it cool. Turn the oven on to 200C.

Cut the plums in half and deseed them. Put them in the piecrust.

Mix all the dry ingredients for the filling and sprinkle over the plums, turn them around a little bit so that the mixture is evenly spread over the fruit. Cube the margarine and put on top of fruit.

The ends of the dough (you should have some extra sticking out over the pan) you now fold over the fruit filling. It won’t cover the pie completely and it’s not supposed to. Put in the oven and leave for about 40 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix the water and the apricot marmalade together in a pot and bring to a boil. The marmalade should melt. When the plum pie is ready and comes out of the oven use a pastry brush and brush the pie generously with your marmaldae mix.

Tastes LOVELY with some vanilla sauce or some soy ice cream.

Tags: almond, baked, pie, plums, sweet
Posted in baked goods, fruit, vegan | 7 Comments »

Swedish jamfilled thumbprint cookies

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Yesterday was a lovely day. Alex and I went to Malmö with a very good friend to eat at the festival, spend money on nice jewellery and to shop and hang out at Aphuset. We got to meet Björn from Vegankrubb and tried some fake salmon with two different sauces. Maria and I agreed that vegans are sexy (in a totally platonic way of course). The fake salmon was absolutely delicious and we ended up buying some to make at home. My friend Maria was amazed at the store, it’s kind of like a supermarket but with vegetarian, vegan and organic food, and she ended up buying a bunch of stuff. We bought some of the things we normally do plus some really tasty sweets.

Anyway, the day was great with good food. I had a very tasty vegan lemon masala burger (the malmö festival is like manna from heaven for us veggies!)

Now, on to what this post was REALLY supposed to be about. Vegan thumbprint cookies, Sweden style. I’ve always been a lover of cookies and going vegan isn’t going to change that. Luckily, many of the classic Swedish cookies use no egg and so the other non vegan stuff is really easy to replace. This is a recipe that’s incredibly simple and veganizing it is so easy.peasy you don’t even have to think. I’ve looked at a couple of vegan thumbprint cookie recipes online, but most of them are nothing like these ones (for one, they have at least 10 ingredients, this one has only 5, they also have loads of complicated and hard to find stuff in them). These cookies are quite possibly my favourite of the ones from my childhood. they’re sweet, they melt in your mouth and they look good too. Plus, they’re easy to make.

Swedish jam thumbprint cookies:

450 ml (just under two cups) flour
100 ml (just under ½ cup) sugar
200gr (7 oz) vegan margarine
1 tsp vanilla extract
raspberry jam

Turn oven to 175 C or 350F. Cream sugar, margarine and vanilla extract together. Mix in the flour and work into a dough ball. Fridge the dough for about 20 minutes. Roll the dough into about 30 little balls about 2 cm in diameter (or about an inch), flatten them a little and put on parchment paper on a baking tray. Make a little thumbprint in them (make the print bigger for more jam!) and fill them with some jam. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes until they’ve turned just a little bit golden. Enjoy with some coffee in the company of good friends. Makes about 30.

Tags: baked, cookies, jam, swedish, sweet
Posted in UNhealthy, baked goods, vegan | 16 Comments »

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 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!

Tags: baked, cake, plums, sweet
Posted in baked goods, fruit, vegan | 7 Comments »

Plums: jam, marmalade and in syrup!

Friday, August 10th, 2007

It’s summer! Lovely fabulous summer. Despite being ill (and also somewhat crazy) I decided a couple of days ago that I needed someone to give me plums. Ask and ye shall receieve; I have enough plums to feed a small country. One of my mothers friends has a plum tree and he was kind enough to give us a small part of his harvest. I also have plenty of tasty Swedish apples bought in the apple orchards of south Sweden, some apricots (for that marmalade I made a few days ago that my mother just loved) and a very big summer squash of some sort (maybe crockneck, I don’t know)

I have spent the entire day in the heat of the kitchen, making jam, marmalade and plums in vanilla syrup. It’s horrendously hot and humid and I’m ill so maybe this wasn’t the best decision I’ve ever made, but it’s a very delicious one.

I still have more than two thirds of the plums to go. I think I’ll make some more jam, and some marmalade maybe.

1. Plums in vanilla syrup, 2. white rose, 3. An abundance of fresh produce, 4. Plums in vanilla syrup

Plums in vanilla syrup:

1 kg (2 lbs) plums
1 stick of vanilla
8 dl (3 cups) water
6 dl/500 gr (1 lb) sugar

Cut the vanilla stick in half, lenghtwise. Put in a pot together with water and sugar. bring to a boil and let boil for ten minutes. Cut the plums in half and deseed them. Put in the sugar syrup and let simmer for about 2 minutes. After simmering put the plums in a clean heat resistant glass jar and pour some syrup on top so that they’re all covered. Put lid on, let cool. Keeps in the fridge for about a week and tastes lovely with some soy icecream or in a cake.

Tags: plums, sweet, vanilla
Posted in condiments, fruit, vegan | 2 Comments »

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