I found a recipe for non-vegan cheesecake brownies through tastespotting, and it didn’t take me long to veganize it. I used my trusted brownie recipe and added a topping made with silken tofu, oat cream, and agave syrup, and the end result was really just deliciously decadent. The topping is more like a creamy custard [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged agave syrup, baking, brownies, chocolate, custard, dessert, oat cream, recipe, silken tofu, vanilla custard, vegan, vegetarian
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November 25, 2008 – 21:59
Walnuts, vanilla and raw brown sugar melted into nice caramel flavor in these cookies. These nutty treats are rather soft and a little crisp on the bottom right after baking, perfect with a cup of tea and snow falling silently outside our window. Helsinki has tons of snow right now, but the weather forecasts say [...]
November 17, 2008 – 23:48
This soup has typical Finnish fall produce and North African spices. We thought that the earthy and sweet rutabaga combined really well with the rich and complex flavors of ras-el-hanout, the fava beans providing a mild backdrop to it all. Our soup’s enchanting fragrance complemented its taste in an elegant manner.
Soup ingredients:
olive oil for frying
2 [...]
By Heikki
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Also tagged carrot, chili, fava bean, garlic, harissa, main course, onion, ras el hanout, recipe, rice wine vinegar, rutabaga, soup, vegan, vegetarian
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September 18, 2008 – 22:20
My ultimate team celebrated its fifth year with a late summer potluck picnic about a month ago. We made these muffins in the morning of the day of the picnic. Most of my teammates are omnivores, so in order to promote veganism I aimed at maximizing the decadence of the muffins. They are based on [...]
We got to pick a few containers of fresh raspberries last Sunday, and I wanted to bake something pretty with them. I decided to use up our stock of hazelnuts for the crust, and whipped up a light mousse filling with soy yogurt and agar agar powder. Delicious and relatively easy to make, these were [...]
I love thin and crispy chips – potato, corn, or apple, they’re sure to disappear in no time at our house. I don’t like deep-frying things because it’s just a little bit scary, but I baked these beetroot chips in the oven. They came out very crispy indeed, and the earthy flavor of beets paired [...]
I’ve made my version of the Key lime pie several times and it has always been a success: it’s quite easy to make, and the silky soy whip filling is just heavenly. This recipe is just one of many versions – I’ve used soy cream cheese instead of the soy whip and added more yogurt, [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged dessert, graham cracker crust, lime, lime pie, no-bake, pie, recipe, soy whip, vegan, vegan key lime pie, vegetarian
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This gentle custard filling would have been even better made with fresh mango fruit, but since those aren’t a staple around here, I resorted to the puréed variety from our Asian grocery. The color isn’t as vibrant as the real deal, but most of the mango taste is still there! We both loved the texture [...]
Pasha is a lovely Easter dessert that has traveled to Finland from Russia. It’s a rich and flavorful concotion seasoned with almond, vanilla, orange peel, and dried fruit, traditionally prepared for the celebrations at the end of Lent by the Eastern Orthodox Christians. For pagans like me and Heikki pasha is a perfect way to [...]
I had never tasted a brownie in my life before baking these, so I’m not completely qualified to assess how brownie-like they were. Well, I did adapt the recipe from an American blog Don’t Eat Off the Sidewalk and I’m sure that Katie knows what a brownie is. These were like moist and delicate pieces [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged baking, brownie, cardamom, chilli, chocolate, cinnamon, marianne, mint, mint chocolate brownies, recipe, spicy brownies, vegan, vegan brownies, vegetarian
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February 24, 2008 – 16:42
This recipe is a variation on my recipe for Olive Tomato Bread, I just made a few alterations to the ingredients. I love this bread – it’s very satisfying and packed with flavor. Spelt flour and walnuts gave the bread a very nice texture, and I developed a topping that really makes sunflower seeds stick [...]
February 14, 2008 – 16:10
When I created the recipe for this mint chocolate cake, I thought it wouldn’t rise very much during baking, and I’d end up with a small amount of cake. Well, it did rise, I had to cut it in two layers, and we ended up with five mini-cakes instead of the two I’d planned to [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged baking, cake, cashew, chocolate, dessert, mint, mint chocolate cake, mint chocolate frosting, recipe, tofu, vegan, vegan mint chocolate cake, vegan mint chocolate frosting, vegetarian
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Today is the day of the Finnish national poet, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and a great number of these little cakes are enjoyed all over the country. They were baked by Johan Ludvig’s wife Fredrika in the 19th century, and there’s a story that the poet enjoyed them with his morning Punsch. He probably wasn’t the [...]
I occasionally get serious apple cravings, but because of my allergies, I can’t have raw apples. That’s when I have to start baking, and these muffins definitely satisfied my apple tooth: they are both filled and topped with yummy apple cubes. Walnuts, cinnamon, and a hint of ginger added a wintery spiciness to these soft [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged apple, apple pie muffins, baking, cinnamon, dessert, ginger, muffin, recipe, spelt, spelt apple muffins, spelt flour, vegan, vegan apple muffins, vegetarian, walnut
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This cake was our dessert on Christmas eve, along with a refreshing citrus fuit salad. The fragrance that came from the oven during baking was intoxicating, and the cake itself didn’t let us down; it was sweet and moist and delicious, with just enough spice and a decadent accent of cognac from the [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged baking, cake, cardamom, christmas, cinnamon, date, dessert, plum, recipe, vegan, vegetarian
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December 10, 2007 – 08:49
We had this curry for dinner with basmati rice and cooling soy yogurt sauce. It was delicious, one of the best curries I’ve ever made. Toasting the spices and mixing my own curry paste must have been the secret of its taste.
Curry paste:
2 tablespoons grated coconut
1 teaspoon each: mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds, [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged basmati, chana dal, cilantro, curry, curry paste, eggplant, lemon, main course, mint, onion, raita, recipe, split chick pea, vegan, vegetarian
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This is a green dip we had as a Friday night snack with some carrots, rutabaga (Swedish turnip), and corn chips. Arugula dip is great with any kind of chips and veggies, and we also serve this as a sauce with potatoes, or in a bun with a veggie burger.
Ingredients:
1,5 dl plain (Alpro) soy yogurt
1 [...]
