Vegetation

Yesterday I had the honour of babysitting this beautiful girl. She is seriously the sweetest, most lovely doggie you could ever meet and my whole family are in love with her! Anyway first up I just had to share her woeful stare :D

Today was my birthday (sigh, another year older). I decided to make something I hadn't made before. I've conquered cupcakes and killed cakes so I decided to try my hand at baking brownies (could I get any cornier!?!!?). Because it was for my birthday I didn't worry about nutritional content whatsoever so as much as I want to try those black bean brownies that have been doing the rounds I put them aside for next time and made these totally junk food best ever vegan brownies after finding a link to them on Veganista's blog (my hips won't thank you for that link Veganista!)

Anyway, I followed ALL the links until I got to here and then I pretty much kept to the destructions except I ran out of Maple Syrup so added about 2 Tbsp Agave Nectar to make up the difference and I also used half Oil half Applesauce (okay, so there was a little bit of healthifying!). Oh and I also used my Hazelnut Milk instead of Rice.

Then I wasted time making marzipan roses just because I could :P
I'm not a big fan of nuts in baking but if you like them add away!
Best Ever Vegan Chocolate Brownies

1/2 cup Canola oil (or 1/4 cup plus 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce)
1/2 cup Maple Syrup
1/4 cup Hazelnut, Rice, Soy or other non dairy Milk
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 cup unbleached White Flour
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
6 Tbsp Sugar
1/4 cup Sucanat (I used Molasses Sugar)
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 cup semi/sweet Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 176C. Lightly oil an 8 inch square pan.

Put the oil, maple syrup, milk and vanilla in a medium bowl and whisk to combine.

In a separate bowl sift together the flour, cocoa, sugar, sucanat , baking powder and salt.

Fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture with a rubber spatula. Don’t overmix.

Fold in the chocolate chips.

Put the batter in the pan and spread it out evenly. Bake for 35 minutes (mine only took 25).

Do not over bake.

Cool before cutting.

Next time I might add the teensiest bit more liquid.

I also made the pudding from my last post with carob instead of cocoa powder for Veggiegirl. It was yummy but you can taste the tahini more with carob so you might need to add a bit of extra powder...or do what I did and add a tsp of peanut butter to the mix. Mmmmmmm PB carob pudding!
Here are the flowers Mr Un-Veg got me for my birthday because he ran out of time to go present shopping (well and he got sick too):
And he got me ice cream to go with my brownies (YUM!)

Dinner, we got take away from a local Italian Restaurant. I didn't bother with photo's. We got home and discovered they'd forgotten hubby's salad and put in the pine nuts I'd asked them to leave out of my dinner. His was also overcooked :( Never mind, next birthday I'll cook! (lol).

Posted by Vegetation at 1:33 PM |    

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