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The Everything Vegan Baking Cookbook: Includes Chocolate-Peppermint Bundt Cake, Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes, Southwest Green Chile Corn Muffins, ... Oatmeal Bars, and hundreds more!
By Lorena Novak Bull
Adams Media - 2012
Cream Cheeze Frosting : page 244
This only has three ingredients and is a snap to whip up. It appears that every recipe in the book calls for half of this, so I'm unclear why the recipe writer wouldn't just present the halved version of the recipe in the first place (at least it's very simple to cut in half.)
Vegan cream cheese is a work in progress. I used Tofutti, which works but has a bit of a cardboard aftertaste. The icing tasted better after it had been refrigerated; regardless though, the aftertaste wasn't noticeable after the icing was schmeared on a dessert.
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Red Velvet Cupcakes : page 207
These were excellent. Super moist, held together well, tasted exactly like red velvet. I think what took it over the top was that instead of using red dye or a plant alternative, I used a red velvet bakery emulsion I got at a specialty shop.
The recipe has a few lacunal hiccups. It instructs you to mix the wet and dry ingredients, then skips to bake time with no instructions to combine them first. Another oddity is the yield was supposed to be 14 cupcakes. My muffin tin is a 12 cup, and from looking on Amazon, that seems to be the standard.
The book includes a recipe for cream "cheeze" frosting, made with vegan cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar. The frosting on its own had a bit of a cardboard aftertaste-you'll never be able to trick anyone into thinking Tofutti is the real deal-but spread on the cupcakes you couldn't tell at all.
(I Googled vegan cream cheese reviews, and from the sample that I read Tofutti was the clear winner. Which worked out just as well as that's all the closest supermarket had.)
Equipment needed: muffin tin, hand mixer, cooling rack
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Whoopie Pies : page 197
These look involved, but there aren't that many ingredients and are a snap to assemble. The few ingredients that are used shine: you can really taste the small amount of cinnamon. Be aware that since these are sandwich cookies, the yield will only be around 12 pies (although the recipe promised 10, so I did come out ahead.)
The filling is the cream cheeze frosting in the toppings section of the book.
Equipment needed: one large cookie sheet or two smaller ones, whisk, hand mixer
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