Brownie Bites!

After getting my cupcakes and not satiating my chocolate craving I decided to try out a Babycakes recipe I found on a Food & Wine website. The results were deeeeelicious! The result was more of a crossbreed between a brownie and a cupcake, but I think that made it all the better! I highly recommend trying out this recipe shown below, you will not be disappointed!

Brownie Bites

• Recipe by Erin McKenna

• ACTIVE: 15 MIN
• TOTAL TIME: 30 MIN
• SERVINGS: makes 2 dozen 2-bite brownies

• Healthy
• Make-Ahead

Ingredients

1. Vegetable oil spray
2. 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons Bob's Red Mill gluten-free, all-purpose baking flour
3. 1/2 cup sugar
4. 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
5. 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
6. 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
7. 1/2 teaspoon salt
8. 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
9. 1/2 cup applesauce
10. 1/4 cup canola oil
11. 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
12. 1/2 cup dairy-free mini chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325°. Spray 2 mini muffin pans with vegetable oil spray. In a bowl, whisk the baking flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and xanthan gum. In another bowl, whisk the applesauce, oil and vanilla; stir into the dry ingredients. Stir in the chocolate chips. Spoon the batter into the muffin pans, filling them three-quarters full. Bake for 15 minutes, or until set. Let the brownies cool in the pans for 15 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

Notes

One Brownie 69 cal, 4 gm fat, 0.8 gm sat fat, 10 gm carb, 0.8 gm fiber.

Babycakes Delivery

Last week I decided to order some cupcakes and sticky buns that I've been reading great reviews about from Babycakes in NYC. They finally came the other day and I was soooo thrilled to try them!




Highly anticipated delivery from Babycakes Bakery from NYC . . .



The only bad thing was that the sticky buns were delicious as was the cupcake icing, but the cupcakes themselves were dry and flavorless. :-( I called Babycakes and let them know about the cupcakes and that this was very disappointing since I spent so much money on them and read such good reviews about their cupcakes. They couldn't give me a refund, but apologize profusely and are sending me a giftcard, which is still good. So when it comes I'm going to order something other than cupcakes and see how they taste. It figures it must've been some sort of fluke, but it had to happen to me! Oh well, whenever I get the chance to visit the bakery in NYC I'll be curious to see how much different the cupcakes taste in person than by delivery.

First blog . . .

This is my first blog post . . . I have been wanting to do this for some time as I enjoy reading other people's blogs. I especially enjoy vegan blogs showing pictures of food and giving new recipes for me to try out!

This first blog post will be about my lasagna cooking experience with teese (shown on the right). Up until this point I have been using Follow Your Heart cheese and finally found teese when my fiance, Brian and I went to D.C. last Tuesday. We made a trip to Sticky Fingers Bakery and they just so happened to sell teese in their cooler section. So of course I had to buy it and find a recipe to use it in. I have to say the result was very tasty and Brian and I had a midnight snack of it later the same night! Brian is an omnivore, but is slowly becoming closer toward being a vegan as I cook new and yummy recipes! Cross your fingers that he crosses over completely into veganism. As I read in a book somewhere some people are turkeys and some are wieners . . . in other words some people can quit things cold turkey and some have to wean themselves off of something. The book said that it's better to quit something cold turkey because if you try weaning yourself off of something you will crave it more and it will be harder to quit. Anyway, just a little food for thought . . . back to the lasagna . . . I found a great recipe to try out my teese on at What the Hell Does a Vegan Eat Anyway? The result was this deliciousness below:





Mmmm! Delish! That's all for now . . . more to come later!