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Berry Cake

 March 30, 2009 • No Comments

This is the Berry Cake from today (E and F block): Strawberry Snack Cake

I made the following changes to the recipe:

Topping:
- used a mix of strawberries and blackberries
- added some lemon juice to enhance the flavours
- toasted some slivered almonds and sprinkled those over the cake

Cake:
- I made a double batch (i.e. doubling everything), using 1.5 cups whole wheat flour, 2 cups white flour.
- I had no soy yoghurt, so I used soymilk + 1/2 tbsp of vinegar (which makes it curdle). I also decided to use only half the amount of soymilk, and use apple sauce for the other half (both can be used instead of fat in cakes).
- I threw in some ground cardamon because I wanted something ‘distinct’. Ideally, I would have used something like rose jam, which goes well with strawberries, but, alas, I had none.

Chocolate Orange Brownies

 March 14, 2009 • No Comments

Remember the chocolate brownies with chocolate and orange icing? These were an adaptation from a recipe for a chocolate-orange cake. I doubled the recipe, used a square baking pan (I don’t have a Bundt form) and cut the cake into brownie-style squares. One other change was adding a pinch of tumeric (an Indian spice) to the orange icing, which gave it a yellow-orangey colour. Tumeric is readily available in bigger supermarkets (Automercado carries it), but you could also substitute with saffron.

Coconut Chai Breakfast Cake

 March 14, 2009 • No Comments

This recipe wasn’t an original creation, but I got it from this Vegan Blog. Dipping it into chocolate (I just semi-sweet couverture) was, of course, my addition to make those goodies more luscious!

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Chocolate Matcha Heaven

 March 14, 2009 • No Comments

Upon popular request, I will start posting recipes of goodies I share with you. Of course, this also to demonstrate that vegans don’t only eat carrots and celery sticks… (-:

Chocolate Matcha Heaven: The recipe is for muffins, but I just made marble-cake style brownies. I did a double batch. I don’t know if you can get matcha in Costa Rica. It is Japanese green tea that comes in powder form and is quite expensive as it is rather exquisite. It is used for tea, in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony (click here for part 2 of the video). You can also find it in sweets. Green tea ice cream (and here is a vegan verison of it for me) is common and sometimes daifuku (mochi dumplings) are filled with green tea (though red bean paste is more common). I have also had green tea candy and this amazing green tea chocolate made by Zotter, an Austrian chocolatier.