Thursday, 8 December 2011

vegan coffee cake and me

I do love coffee and walnuts cake with nice strong mug of (decaf) coffee. Since I cut down on sugar I haven't really had much coffee cake. And, usually when I eat they are either staled, dry or doesn't taste coffee enough for me anyway. So, of course I prefer making my own coffee cake. Last week, I had coffee cake cravings when I got back from work, so I made some. I used hemp flour and gluten free flour(half and half), made crumbs with coconut butter, mixed with tofu mix(tofu and oat milk or soya milk blitzed), 5-6 heaped strong coffee(I made strong liquid),maple syrup, vanilla, flaxeed mills to make cake mix. then spooned into muffin cups. I baked about 20mins or so. And there were delicious! Of course, they went really quickly. I made another batch. But this time I made sugar free coffee chocolate topping! And even better! I made choco topping with coconut butter, really small chopped cacao nibs, and sugar free coffee chocolate. I loved the topping! I don't really have recipe, I make up as I go. But I do use my old recipes from my restaurant days, and adapt them into healthier options. I think any recipes in magazines or cooking books are easy to adapt to your own taste or healthy foods. I stopped buying cooking books long time ago. I do like flicking through them when I see some books which are interesting or strange vegan cooking books. They are fun. I haven't seen vegan cup cake book yet! Oh, I might treat myself for my Christmas present from me to me! I do that every year( just an excuse for retail therapy. I bought i-pod touch off Tony last year!). My expense this month and last month were more than what usually goes out, so I needed to earn extra cash selling my stuffs on eBay. And, next month too. I need to pay my course fee..... anyway, I always go to my favo supermarket on Thu and Fri arvo for reduced products. I've been on budget for a while, I just love finding bargains. Salad with some tofu, rice noodles with (reduced packet of mixed vegetable) steam fry vegetables, I do sprouts some beans and alfalfa(which saves me a bit of money), juicing, rice salad etc, and actually not bad so far, I got some foods in my cupboard too, so I just need to eat that too.  I must be careful not to eat same foods every day, I don't really wanna develop food allergy..... That's another thing, if I like something, I eat same thing almost every day till I get board. Luckily, I get board really quickly, that's one of reasons why my cupboards are full of foods!( I'm not sure if it's good thing or not) Anyway, these are what I made.


These were my savoury carrot cake I made when I had a day off last week. I fancied some savoury muffins, but I didn't have lots of ingredients to make any fancy cake. So I grated some carrots, add some seeds, seaweed, vegan pesto and avocado to make cake mix. Actually, taste wasn't too bad. They didn't last long though, lasted about 3 days. By 4th day, started to go off. I think first a couple of days were the best with some nice green soup.

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