Vegan Cookie Recipes

Just stumbled upon this blog - and wanted to share with those who are interested!   Enjoy!!

The Unintentional Vegan - Cookie Recipes

Tastebook

I spent today updating my family recipe cookbook!!  You can see & order it here:  Jodi's Family Recipe Cookbook

Let me know in the comments if you sign up for Tastebook & if you order a cookbook!

Baked Brie Cheese with Apricot Preserves

1/3 cup apricot preserves

1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)

1 sheet puff pastry (from 17.3-oz package), thawed (Pillsbury crescent rolls works nicely)

olive oil or vegan “butter” spread

1 round (8 oz) Brie cheese, cut horizontally in half

Heat oven to 400°F. Line cookie sheet with foil or cooking parchment paper; lightly spray foil or paper with cooking spray. In small bowl, mix preserves, pecans and onion; set aside.

On lightly floured surface, roll pastry into 10x14-inch rectangle. Using the round of cheese as a pattern, cut a pastry circle 3 to 4 inches larger than the cheese. Set aside excess pastry.

Spread half of the preserves mixture in center of pastry circle, leaving 3-inch edge. Place 1 cheese round (in rind) on preserves. Spoon remaining preserves over cheese. Top with remaining cheese round.

Gently fold edges of pastry up and over cheese to cover, folding and pinching edges to seal. Place seam side down on cookie sheet. Cut out decorative pieces from excess pastry. Brush pastry with oil or margarine; place pastry cutouts on top. 5 Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Oma's Lasagne

This is my Mum's lasagne recipe.  I remember her making it when I was a little girl.  She made it for a dormitory of girls when we lived in Princeton, NJ.  And she also made this when she was a chef in Princeton at a restaurant, and for various restaurants in Northern Virginia when she lived there too.  She's also made it for me on special occasions.  I see her about once every decade (I'm not joking - we never see each other) - and so my mum makes her lasagne for me approx once every 10 years.  I've had it about 4 times in my life. Now, I have the recipe, and it turns out I've gone vegan.  But hopefully others will enjoy!!

Oma’s Lasagna

Meaty sauce layer

Sauce

1 Pkg of ground meat

1 lg can crushed tomatoes

2 T or more oregano

2 T basil

salt & pepper

1 Lg chopped onion

1 T minced garlic

1/2 cup red wine (rinse out the tomato can) with it

chopped mushrooms if you like

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Cheese layer & noodles

1 container ricotta cheese

2 large eggs beat into the ricotta to make a paste

grated Parmesan, Romano and shredded mozzarella

2 pkg ready to use no boiling first lasagna noodles

In a large pot, brown the meat first. Add all the rest of the ingredients and cook on low heat for 45 minutes stirring often so it doesn’t burn.

In a lasagna pan, put a layer of sauce first then the noodles then the ricotta and cheeses. Continue layering until almost full. Finish with mozzarella cheese. Cover through first 1/2 of baking with a sheet of foil sprayed with cooking spray so it doesn’t stick to the cheese.

Uncover through last 1/2 of cooking. Total time will be about an hour at 350.

Let sit a good 1/2 hour or 45 minutes so cutting will be good.

Easy Vegan Wheat Bread

2 1/2 cups warm water
1 T molasses
2 yeast packets
3 cups whole wheat flour

Mix water, yeast and molasses in a large bowl.  Pour in the 3 cups of wheat flour and mix well.  Cover the bowl with a towel and place in a dry place.  Let sit for 20 minutes to a full day.

1/2 cup minus 1 T molasses
1/4 C vegetable oil
1/4 C soy milk
3-4 C unbleached white flour
1 t salt

Pour in the molasses, oil, soy, milk and salt.  Mix.

Add white flour a 1/2 C at a time.  After about 3 cups, the mix will get pretty dense.  Begin to knead.  It will still be sticky.  Add another 1/2 - 1 C flour and knead the bread.  Knead it for 5-10 minutes until it is smooth and elastic.

If making loaves of bread:
Cut into 2 equal parts.  Shape into loaves and put into 2 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 greased bread pans.

If making 24 rolls:
drop blops of dough onto a cookie sheet

You can also make 1 loaf of bread and 12 rolls

Cover the pans with the towel - put in warm place.  Let dough double in size.  It takes 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

Bake:
Loaves of bread at 350 degrees F for 35-40 minutes.
Rolls at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes.

Vegan Chocolate Cake

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CAKE
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 heaping tbs cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
6 tbs oil
1 tbs white or rice vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup cold water

Mix dry ingredients. Mix wet ingredients, add dry and beat well. Bake at 350° for 35 to 40 minutes. For a layer cake, double the ingredients.

I just ordered my first cookbook that I made from TasteBook.com 
I'm so excited!  it took me 3 years to compile!  It's made up of all of my Christmas cookie recipes; and also other holiday cooking things.  most of the recipes are on this blog; but when I'm cooking, I'm not sitting at the computer in front of a blog.  So now I will have my recipes in a cookbook!  I'm so excited!!  A family tradition has been put into a binder & will be arriving at my house in about 2 weeks!


The book is called:  

Beatty Family Holiday Cooking

Vegan Easter / Roasted Vegetables

I've roasted my first ever set of vegetables!!  I'm so excited!!  This is my first ever vegan holiday meal.  Yum!!!

VEGAN

Dear blog readers:

I read a book "A new Kind of Christianity" by Brian Mclaren.  I also watched a show on Oprah Winfrey (the first show of hers I've watched in over a decade I think!) on becoming vegan.  And then I ordered the book, "Veganist" and a vegan ice cream recipe book.  And I decided to explore becoming vegan.  And I haven't looked back.

I'm not the most perfect vegan out there.  I'm sure I'm not doing things 100% vegan; but I'm getting better every week.  And my kids have turned mostly vegetarian.  At dinnertime, we're all vegan.

The recipes on here ... the ones that have been here for a while - will stay here.  I will be adding on vegan recipies from here on out.

Does anyone have a good punch recipe they'd like to share?  Maybe one with some lime juice in it?  I need to bring a big bowl of punch to an event on Friday...

-Jodi

Spiced Chocolate Coffee

A recipe from Bethenny Frankle's Valentines 2011 newsletter.

Makes 7 cups
Ingredients:

•     10 tablespoons ground coffee
•     1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•     1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
•     6 cups water
•     1/2 cup steamed soy milk
•     3 tablespoons agave nectar
•     1/8 teaspoon cocoa powder

Preparation:
Combine coffee, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a coffee filter. Brew with 6 cups of water in a coffeemaker, according to coffeemaker’s instructions.

Mix steamed soymilk, agave nectar, and cocoa.
Pour coffee into mugs, and top with steamed soymilk mixture.