Blueberry Wheat Muffins
1 cup flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups blueberries
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Combine the dry
ingredients together in a bowl and stir. Into another bowl, stir
together the eggs, milk vanilla with the oil. Add to the dry
ingredients and stir until well moistened. Fold in the blueberries.
Spoon the batter into the greased muffin cups. Bake at 425 °F
for 15 to 20 minutes or until deep golden brown. Let the muffins
stand 5 minutes before removing from pans.~6Muffins
Blueberry Corn Muffins
1 cup flour ( I use white spelt for this)
3/4 cup corn meal
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp fine sea salt
2/3 cup almond or other milk
1/3 cup olive or coconut oil
1 tab vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
2/3 cup maple syrup I use less though as I don't like things
so sweet
grated rind of 1 lemon
1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries
.
sift dry, whisk all wet ingredients and add to dry. Add blueberries
gently and spoon into muffin tin.
375 20 min ~elainie gagne
Vegan Apple Crumb Muffins
2cups flour (I used half white spelt and half whole spelt)
1 apple peeled and diced
1/3 cup coconut butter ( I use omega nutrition or carotecs)
1/3 cup rapadura sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. fine ground sea salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup milk (I used homemade almond milk)
1 tab. vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
Cream coconut
butter with rapadura sugar. Add vanilla and maple syrup. Sift
dry together. Add this to wet mixture and mix. Add almond milk
and vinegar and mix. Fold in apples.
Topping
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 heaping cups flour ( I used the combo again)
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 1/8 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 tsp nutmeg
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/3 cup hazelnut oil (I use a cold pressed organic one)
Combine topping
mixture by rubbing it with your fingers to form crumbs. Mixture
should not be greasy but more floury so if you need to add more
flour to it.
Spoon batter into a oiled 12 muffin tin.
With your hands put heaping amounts of topping on top of batter.
Bake at 375 for 20 - 25 min.~elainie gagne
Vegan Cookies
I have tons but here's one thats simple.
2 cups flour - I use a half white spelt half whole spelt combo
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup rice syrup
1/2 cup combo of melted coconut butter/olive oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 tab water
2/3 cup chocolate or carob chips
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.
In a blender blend all wet ingredients. Add wet to dry and mix
well.
Drop by tab. on 2 oiled cookie sheets. Flatten them with the
palm of your hand to a 1/4 inch thickness. Bake at 375 for about
15 min.~elainie gagne
Vegan Scones
2 cups all purpose
flour
1/2 cup old fashioned oats
1/2 cup packed browns ugar
2 Tablespoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup coconut oil
2/3 cup almond milk
2 teaspoons sugar (for topping)
Preheat oven
to 425 degrees F.
Mix flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder and salt in a large
bowl.
Using fingerips, rub in coconut oil until mixture resembles coarse
meal. Add almond milk; stir until dough forms.
Pat into a circle, about 3/4" high, and sprinkle 2 teaspoons
of sugar on top.
Bake until golden and tester inserted in biscuit comes out clean,
about 20 minutes.
These make divine
scones--I've yet to try this recipe with whole meal flour or
succanat, but I'm thinking of experimenting.
mochamama
Honey Molasses Granola
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup wheat germ
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 Tbsp. seasame seeds
1/2 cup honey
3Tbsp. molasses
1 Cup raisins
Preheat oven to 300. Combine all ingredients except raisins,
mix well, and spread into a roasting pan.Bake 40 min until goldenbrown,
stirring several times. Add raisins after you remove it from
the oven.~ springmamma
Tom Brokaw's
Homemade Granola
4 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup sesame seeds
1 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup safflower oil
1/2 cup honey
3 cups mixed nuts
2-3 cups dried fruits, diced
Preheat oven
to 400 degrees.
Combine oats, coconut, sesame seeds, and wheat germ in a large
heatproof bowl. In a medium saucepan warm oil and honey until
bubbly.
Pour honey mixture into oat mixture and stir to coat. Add nuts.
Spread the entire mixture over shallow baking pans. Bake, stirring
frequently, for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown.
Remove from oven and let cool.
Stir in dried fruit.
Of course, the
fun is to play with it -- adding or deleting ingredients. ~writermama
Holiday
Gingerbread
from "Healthy
Cooking for Kids- Building Blocks for a Lifetime of Good Nutrition"
by Shelly Null
1 1/4 cups whole
wheat pastry flour
3/4 cup unbleached white flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp groun ginger
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp ground mace
1/4 tsp ground allspice
3/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/2 cup well-mashed ripe banana
1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup molasses
2 tsp pure vanilla flavor
1/4 tsp grated orange zest
1 tbsp maple sugar (optional)
1. Preheat oven
the 350F. Lightly oil and flour a 10 1/2 inch cast iron skillet.
Set aside.
2. In a large
mixing bowl, sift together the flours, baking powder, ginger,
baking soda, cinnamon, salt, mace, and allspice. Whisk together
until well combined. Set aside.
3. In a 4-cup
capacity liquid measuring pitcher, whisk together teh maple syrup,
banana, oil, molasses, vanilla, and orange zest until well blended.
4. Witha handheld
electric mixer on low speed, gradually add the wet ingredients
to the dry, making sure they are well blended before each addition.
When the ingredients are fully incorporated, increase the mixer
speed to high, and beat for 20 seconds to aerate. Scrape off
any excess batter from the sides of the bowl. Pour the batter
into prepared skillet and distribute evenly with spatula. Evenly
sprinkle on maple sugar.
5. Bake on the
middle level of the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes. For uniformity
in baking, rotate the skillet from front to back halfway through
the baking period.
6. The gingerbread
is done when the center springs back when touched, or a tester
inserted in the center comes out clean. It will be golden brown.
Remove gingerbread from the oven and let cool in the pan for
20 minutes. Loosen the edges with a sharp knife and slice into
6-8 equal wedges.
Notes:
*For Orange Gingerbread, add an additional 3/4 tsp grated orange
zest.
*For those sensitive to wheat, equal measuers of spelt or Lundberg
brand brown rice flour can be used to replace the whole-wheat
pastry and unbleached white flours.
*For special occasions I often make individual gingerbreads using
sixteen 3-inch oval molds. Please note: These will require less
baking time.
(Let me know
if you try it and how it comes out!)
Happy baking! ~ mamabearlisa
Gingerbread
1 cup sorghum or molasses
1/2 cup melted margarine or oil
2 tsp ginger
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda in 1 cup hot water
Beat together
molasses and margarine, then beat in flour, ginger and salt.
Beat in soda water about 1/3 cup at a time, til mixture is smooth.
In 8x8" pan, bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes ~ chelle15
Granola Bars
1/2 c soft butter or margarine
3/4 c brown sugar
1/3 c corn syrup
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 & 1/2 c quick oatmeal
1 c chocolate chips
Heat oven to
350 degrees. Grease a 9x13" pan. Beat butter, sugar, and
syrup until light and fluffy. Blend in egg and vanilla. Add and
mix oats and chips. Press firmly intp pan. Bake 20 to 23 minutes.
Cool. Cut.
This is the only
one I could find. I'm sure you could substitute some of the ing.
(sugar for honey, etc.). ~chelle15
"The Best Chocolate Cake"
This is from
the book Quick Vegetarian Pleasures.
Cake
2-1/4 cups unbleached white flour
1-1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 8 inch
layer pans and set aside (I just use a 9 by 13 sheet cake pan,
and adjust time time).
Thoroughly combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt
in a bowl.
Pour in water, oil, vanilla and vinegar and stir until combined.
Pour into prepared pans. Bake 30 minutes, or until a knife comes
out clean. Cool on a wire rack 30 minutes, then remove teh cakes
from the pans and cook completely. (I skip that part since I
just make a sheet cake usually).
This recipe comes with a "buttercream icing", which
I usually have made with margarine, but now don't do that anymore.
If you can think of a healthier way to make this, again, let
me know.
~mochamama
Apple Granola
This is from
"Battling the MSG Myth, A survival guide and Cookbook"
Mix:
20 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix the following and pour over the oatmeal:
3 cups unsweetened appplesauce
2/3 cup oil
1 teaspoon pure vanilla
Toss mixture
well with 2 large spoons. Bake at 300 degrees up to 1 hour, stirring
often until dry and toasted. Add 2 cups any kind chopped nuts,
1/2 cup sunflower seeds, and 1/4 cup sesame seeds the last ten
minutes of roasting. Store in tight container. Dried fruit may
be added after baking.
Eat with milk and fruit for breakfast (I like it hot), or use
in cookies or to make granola bars.
This is a very
versatile recipe, you can leave out the oil, and use honey instead
of the sugar, and put any dried fruits or nuts that you want.
It makes a ton though, and I usually only make half at a time.
Easy and Inexpensive Granola
Ingredients:
4 cups oats
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup buckwheat groats
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup pumpkin seeds (optional)
1/4 cup any available chopped nuts
2 T wheat germ (optional)
1/2 cup or more any dried fruit that you like, cut in small pieces
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup sweetener (maple syrup, brown sugar, honey, whatever)
1/2 t cinnamon
1/8 t salt
Directions:
This recipe is
infinitely variable according to whatever you have on hand. Preheat
oven to 300 degrees. In large shallow baking pan, combine all
of the grain and seed ingredients. Combine sweetener and oil
in small pan, heat until it it is smooth and hot. Pour over the
seed mixture and stir. Add spices, put the whole thing in the
oven and bake for about 30 minutes. Stir after about 15 minutes.
Let cool, add dried fruits; mix will keep almost forever in air-tight
container. Delicious as a cold cereal with soy milk, or add soy
milk and fresh fruit and heat until slightly boiling (about a
minute in microwave) for a quick and delicious porridge.
Serves: 8.
Preparation time:
5 minutes to make, 30 minutes to bake.
Nutrition Information:
This is chock full of those whole grains and seeds that are so
important to our diet. For vegans, the sesame seeds have lots
of calcium too.
If you are watching
fat and sugar intake, I make mine without the oil and sweetener,
and it is still yummy -- especially with the lite soy milk as
opposed to cow milk because soy milk has a sweet taste. Compare
the price of making this to buying store granola -- it is amazing..
~2tiredmommy
Granola
Ingredients:
3 cups oats
1 cup unsweetened corn flakes
1/2 cup toasted wheat germ
1/4 cup chopped almonds
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup thawed apple juice concentrate
1/2 cup molasses
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups dried fruit(apples, apricots, bananas, etc.),chopped
Directions:
Preheat oven
to 300. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray. Place oats in
colander and sprinkle with enough water to dampen. Transfer to
bowl and add cereal, wheat germ, almonds, cinnamon, nutmeg and
salt. In small bowl combine concentrate, molasses and vanilla.
Pour over oat mix until evenly coated. Spread ganola mix onto
baking sheets. Bake until golden brown, about 30 to 35 min.,
turning overy 10 min. so that it browns evenly. Remove from oven,
stir in fruit and bake 5 min more. Let cool and store in airtight
container.
Preparation time:
45min ~2tiredmommy
Granola Bars
This is the recipe I use it's really sweet so you may need to
cut down sugar.
1 c. bisquick ( I use my own made with half wheat flour)
1 c. quick oats
1 stick butter or whatever you use
1 c. brown sugar 1/2 is probably more like it
1/2 c. chocolate chips, nuts or raisins.
Mix together and pat in large glass baking dish. Bake 350 F for
about 15 min. until brown. cut,cool and eat~CLLadd
Three Sisters
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Topping:
4 tbsp soy margarine
1/2-1 cup your favorite sweetener
4-5 slices fresh or canned pineapple
1/2 cup whole pecans
Melt the margarine
and sweetener very slowly together in the bottom of a 10-inch
cast-iron skillet. When this has melted, arrange the pineapple
slices and pecans in the skillet, making sure this looks good,
as it will the top of the finished cake.
Batter:
1/4 cup soy margarine
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp sweetener
1 egg or egg replacer
1 1/2 cups unbleached white or whole wheat flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup evaporated milk mixed with 1/4 cup water, or 1/2 cup
of the juice from the canned pinapple.
1/2 tsp vanilla
Preheat the oven
to 350. Cream the margarine and the sweetener, then add the egg.
Stir the dry ingredients together, and add alternately to the
creamed ingredients with the milk mixture or juice. Stir in the
vanilla. Pour the batter carefully over the fruit in the skillet,
and bake for about 45 mintues or until it tests done in the middle.
Use a pretty
plate to show it off, and run a knife around the edge of the
skillet to separate it from the cake. Now, place the dish directly
on top of it, face down. Grip the handle of the skillet. With
one hand on the plate, flip the whole thing over in one big motion.~mamabearlisa
Jumble
Cookies
* 3 large ripe
bananas, smashed
* 2 cups rolled
oats
* 1 cup chopped
dates or raisins
* 1/3 cup oil
* dash of salt
* 1 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven
to 350 degrees. Mix all of the ingredients together, and let
mixture sit for about 15 minutes so that the flavors have time
to mix and the batter kind of sets up. Drop spoonfuls of batter
onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool on
a rack. Enjoy!! ~ erinandclover
Snickerdoodles
1 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugarSucanat or unbleached sugar (Florida Crystals).
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
for rolling cookies
in:
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
Mix together
shortening, sugar, eggs. Stir in flour, cream of tartar, soda
and salt. Chill dough. Roll in balls the size of walnuts. Roll
in mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased
cookie sheets. Bake 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees.~ BumbleBee70
EnergyBalls
maple syrup/honey/sucanat
almond/peanut butter
a little vegetable oil
Bring to a boil, and simmer for 2-3 minutes
Then, remove
from heat and add
carob/cocoa powder
crispy brown rice cereal
rolled oats
coconut/chopped nuts/sunflower seeds/pumpkin seeds/raisins/other
chopped dried fruit
Shape into balls,
and refridgerate until cool/set.
these are soooo
yummy! Sure to be gone the day you make them (even if you're
the only one that eats them!!)
Here's a recipe
that I posted on an earlier thread for healthy cookie cutter
cookies:
MIX
1/6 cup vegetable oil (I used canola)
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup concentrated grape juice (you can use all concentrated
grape juice if you don't do honey, or if you just want them more
healthy.)
ADD
Approximately (I made up the recipe, and didn't measure!)
2+ cups flour (add 2 cups first, then add more to get the right
non-sticky consistency. You can do this in an electric kitchen
mixer. I used mostly white spelt flour, with a little whole spelt
flour)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
pinch of salt
you can also add beet root powder/spinach powder if you'd like
to colour them.
I chilled my
dough for about an hour. Not sure if this was neccesary, but
we weren't ready to make them for about an hour, so it seemed
like the thing to do!!
Roll on floured
table (about 1/16th-1/8th of an inch thick), cut into cute shapes.
Place on a greased cookie sheets into preheated oven @ 375 F,
and bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool on racks. Enjoy! Jenna (our 3
year old) ate at least half of our first batch in one sitting!!~suezq
ljkb
Banana Muffins
In a bowl mix:
*2 c flour
*1+1/2 tsp baking powder
*1/2 tsp baking soda
In another bowl, cream:
*1/3 c margarine (or you could mix seedless jam and oil together
to get a margarine like consistency)
*3/4 c dry sugar, sucanat or maple syrup (my fave!)
maple may reqiure a little extra flour or something
Beat into the wet sugar mix:
*2 mushed bananas (I have substituted applesauce for bananas
before. 1/2 c = 1 banana)
*maybe some vanilla
Add liquid stuff to dry stuff. Stir as little as possible, folding
in nuts or raisins if you want. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or
until the toothpick comes out clean.
A rough custom
recipe that will need adjustments but is fun:
*3/4 c liquid (soy or rice milk, juice, water, cooled herbal
tea)
*1/2 c fruit (can include zucchini, carrot, squash, pumpkin,
etc. in addition to banana, apple, berries etc. even jam or jelly)
*1/3 c oil (could use margarine)
*1/4 c iquid sweetener (sorghum, maple, honey, molasses, sugar
mixed w/ water)
*2 c flour (pastry flour produces the best muffins and can be
purchased in the ww variety. rice flour makes sweet muffins.)
*1/2 c nuts or dried fruit or seeds
*1 t or T something special (vanilla or almond ectract, cinnamon,
nutmeg, citrus zest, ginger, whatever)
*1 t baking powder
*1 t baking soda
*1/2 t sea salt
Mix the dry,
mix the wet, mix em together with as few strokes as possible.
Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.~mirandarae
Muffins
In a blender:
1 1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup apple juice concetrate
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup dates
1/2 cup veg oil
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
In mixing bowl:
1 1/2 cups ww flour
1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour (oat or barley flour)
2 tbsp. Ener-G foods baking powder
Pour blender
mix into flour mix and mix together quickly. Spoon into muffin
tins until almost full and bake in 350 degree oven for 30-40
minutes.
makes 18 muffins
You could probably
add things like blueberrries or bananas I would think.~Cathy
Vegan Chocolate Mousse/ Mousse Cake
this cake is so awesome.
the cake part
is just like erin's recipe except instead of water i use coffee
(or whatever coffee substitute you like), and instead of vanilla
i use almond extract. i make two layers, and then the icicng
& filling is this:
2 blocks of mori-nu
x-tra firm silken tofu (25 oz.)
2 cups sunspire choc. chips melted
1T. vanilla extract
3T. maple syrup
blend the tofu
in a food processor (or a blender if that's all you've got available)
until smooth. add the rest and blend until totally smooth. chill
until set (a few hours at least).
at this point
it is chocolate mousse (and so good), but i use it for filling
and icing chocolate cake. then i take toasted almond slivers
or toasted coconut and press it around the sides. be careful,
it is way decadent.
also, you can
substitute any flavor extract for the vanilla in the mousse.
frontier makes some great extracts. some of my favs with this
recipe are raspberry, orange, butterscotch, almond, and coffee.~carina
nicole
Yummy Chocolate Cake
This is my Aunt Kathi's recipe for chocolate cake. I thought
I'd share because it is awesome. I replaced the sugar with maple
syrup and you can use apple sauce in place of the oil if you
like (believe it or not, cinnamon apple sauce is really good).
3 C flour (try
to use a smooth flour or the cake is too heavy)
3/4 cup maple syrup
6 T cocoa
1 t salt
2 t baking soda
2 t vanilla
2 T vinegar
2/3 C oil
2 C water
You can mix everything
together right in the pan, but I usually do it in a bowl first
so I don't end up with lumps. Pour into a 9 x 13 inch ungreased
pan and bake for 40 minutes at 350. Cool. Frost if you wish.
Mmmm!
Note:
2 cups of water. I made it the other night and it did seem pretty
runny as a batter. I actually used a bit less than the two cups
of water (maybe 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 or so). The original recipe used
sugar instead of maple syrup, so there was less liquid in it.
Even though it is a runny batter, it still bakes just fine. It
is a very yummy cake. Hope it turns out well for you! ~purplemama
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