Chocolatepeanutbuttermaplesyrupheaven.

Made the Vegan Zombie's Wacky Cake, just replaced the one tablespoon agave syrup with 2 tablespoons maple syrup, used hemp milk instead of water and had 2/3 cups of vegan margarine instead of the margarine/shortening mixture.
Best stuff! Try it yourself and listen to PLEASURE LEFTISTS while baking it.

 

Good things.

For obvious reasons I'm totally not interested in christmas or any christmas related things. But I am interested in super sweet presents and if friends have an Astrid-Lindgren-kinda-christmas-fever I am totally down with it. 
The loveable Hannah made some chocolate crossie-thingies (the jar is wrapped with psychedelic cats!) and diy teabags, everything came with some star shaped paper clip-magnet-things and a postcard. Everything in this so perfect.

Pretty cakes.

Last sunday I put on a matinée show with DRAMAMINE and NOEM which both are on a small tour together right now. I think 5pm on a Sunday is quite the right time for a show but believe it or not, some people didn't come as they thought it was too early for them. So what.

Fabulous Felix, Hanni and me made some cakes for the show. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of Hanni's chocolate muffins and his lemon cake was already gone before any visitors showed up. Cakes, coffee and two good bands were an awesome combination and I demand more Sundays like that.

Pear-Hazelnut-Cake

Nougat-Cream-Cake

Cinnamon-Cherry-Cake-Pops

Donauwelle (Chocolate-Cherry-Vanilla-Cake)

Raspberry-Chocolate-Cake

Peanut Butter Blondies PPK

Yesterday I made Post Punk Kitchen's Peanut Butter Blondies  for a bake sale. They turned out superdecadentdelicious, try them! I used soy-rice-milk instead of almond milk and sunflower oil instead of canola oil. Couldn't resist to use a bit chocolate icing. They're fudgy and chewy and the slight hint of salt from the peanutbutter fits perfectly to the heavy sweetness.

Coffee-Pecan-Brownies.

Coffee, chocolate, nuts. Great combination.

- 2 cups flour

- 1 1/2 cups sugar

- 3/4 cup cocoa

- 1 teaspoon baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon salt 

- 250g margarine

- 3/4 cup soymilk

- 1 espresso (still hot)

Mix dry ingredients well, than add margarine. If these are really good mixed first add the still warm espresso and than soymilk.

Spread the dough on a baking sheet, and put one pecan nut for every brownie onto the dough. Bake for 20-25 minutes, gas mark 3.
Let them cool for  at least 10 minutes before cut into pieces. Store in an airtight container and be patient: they're waaaay better the next day and as luscious as brownies have to be.

Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I have different recipes, most of them with egg-replacer (which I hate, they're a waste of money and totally needless) and other things, so I mixed a few together and made this. It is one of the easiest doughs you can think of! The cookies went crispy but still chewy and I think they're perfect. I had about 75g chocolate chips or so, but you can use up to 100g or leave them out and use something else instead. White chocolate chips, nougat chunks, nuts, cinnamon,...but here is the classic way:

- 1 cup sugar (I used raw cane sugar, very caramelish)

- 0,5 cup margarine

- 1,5 flour

- 0,5 teaspoon cream of tartar

- chocolate chips

Mix together sugar and margarine until very soft. Mix flour with cream of tartar* then add it to the sugar-margarine-mix. Mix very quick, add chocolate chips or whatever you wanna use and then chill the dough for about 1h in the fridge. It has to be very cold and firm, otherwise your cookies will melt into one big ugly megacookie, which is not a good option. This happend to me before and no, it is not tasty at all.

When it's chilled, preheat your oven while putting the cookies onto a baking sheet. I used about 1 big table spoon of dough per cookie. Just roll a ball out of the dough and flatten it only a little bit with your hand, put on sheet. They will spread a little while baking, so don't make them to flat. You can also flatten them with a fork to have patterns on it.

Then put them into the preheated oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes on gas mark 6. When golden brown remove from oven and let sit for a minute before you move them onto a plate or something.

*I always use cream of tartar instead of usual baking powder. You can use a lot of it in a dough without tasting it.

Right now: chocolate ice cream.

Tofutti chocolate ice cream, hmmm. Although I miss sometimes fancy varies of vegan ice cream (like different kinds of ice cream swirled together with caramelized nuts and so on), chocolate ice cream is the best anyway. So what.