The Garden of Vegan..... Sarah Kramer. I have all three of her books but it always seems to be this book I find so many things in. So Sugar Cookies I know easy right. Well when you are use to baking with eggs. Everything isn't that easy. But I am learning. Just to make sure I get this stuff right I check in my cook books to compare what I'm using. In a lot of my recipes not all. Anyways these Vegan Sugar Cookies were very "buttery" and good. I made some small cookies and made one big cookie like the store bought kind. They all turned out really good. I also had a lot of left over frosting in the fridge from VcCtotW. I used the Vanilla w/ peanut butter added and put some on the sugar cookies. That was really yummy too. I think next time I go out I am going to buy some different flavor extracts to make different frosting flavors for the 4th of July. I am thinking about selling cookies in my town. Every year the town has a big celebration, food, singing, fireworks, contests, games for the kids, etc. Who knows. I will post it if I do. But the sugar cookies are awesome... 
Kind looks like corn bread but its a big sugar cookie. I did cook it a little to long though. oops...
All the ingredients gathered.... 
All ingredients mixed and formed ready to put in foil and oven.
After 90 mins of baking... It busted through the foil and so if I lay it down it actually looks like a triangle..
Barbecue sauce added... and baked.. The seitan turned out ok. But I don't like the Cinnamon in it and I added smoked Liquid. Next time I am going to change the recipe to make it taste more smoked and no Cinnamon. Probably change a couple other things too. It was good though. Cheaper then buying soy meat at the store..
Cupcakes again. I made the same chocolate cupcakes from VcCtotW. I also used the Vanilla Butter cream frosting recipe with peanut butter added. "J" Love peanut butter frosting. They turned out really good. I also like to add a layer of bananas when I make peanut butter frosting but I didn't have a chance to do it to the cupcakes.
Here she is eating the left over batter. Since its vegan its all gone to eat raw... "J" & I had some of the batter as well. It is really good. But the cookies are too...
I have tons and tons of spices and a small kitchen. So cabinet space and no space to hang a traditional rack. So a few months ago I bought some wood at Lowe's and my "J" hang it up for me. Very simple & it used up some formerly unusable wall space. I love it.. Thank you "J"!!!!! Very Very Much... now he needs to expand it some more though. I haven't figured out how I want him to do that yet. But I am working on it.
Nothing really baked or anything that takes more then 5 min to cook. So we have a veggie ham sandwich.
Morningstar Bacon (BLT), No mayo, just mustard...
"C" and I made our Daddy a fathers day cake today. She helped me make the cake its self. I measured and she dumped it in the bowl. She really loves to help in the kitchen. She was even really clean about it today. Although I made a few messes. I used the basic chocolate cup cake recipe from VcCtotW and doubled it. I also used the Butter cream recipe from the same book. The chocolate & vanilla versions. I even used what I had left over from last night. So good for me.. No wasting all that frosting. I love these frosting recipes they turn out perfect every time. I know frosting isn't that hard to make but every time I tried the other recipes I had found they always turned out wrong. So I am so glad to have found a basic frosting recipe that works in so many different ways. "C" had to have the "XO" put on the cake for her daddy. That was the first thing that came out of her mouth when I told her we were going to make a cake for him. Well I hope her likes it. HAPPY FATHERS DAY DADDY and ALL THE OTHER FATHERS OUT THERE....!
I love going in the mall and being freshly made pretzels except well 1 they have eggs on them and 2 you really don't know exactly whats in the dough that your eating. I know call me paranoid. But at least at home I know whats in them and what there nutritional values are. This is the first time I took this short cut to make them using frozen dough. I made 3 pretzels that were actually shaped like pretzels. The rest were pretzel rods. When they were done I used some smart "butter" and some course salt. They turned out really good. "J" Put some powdered cheese on them. (So much for his being vegan.) But they did turn out really good. 
I tried my first recipe out of this book today. Mocha Cupcakes with chocolate/ lightly mocha flavored "butter cream" icing. I have been missing out. They were awesome. I made one recipe of the cupcakes and it made 11. (There are only 2 left) :) and I made 1 full butter cream recipe. Next time I will cut the Butter cream recipe in half because it was way to much and I hate wasting stuff. So it is now in my fridge and I don't know what to do with it. It is not good for me to make cup cakes when I am watching what I eat because I like cupcakes. I am sad to say that I had 2 and the best cupcakes ever today. I had one when it was still warm and 1 after it cooled. They were a lot better after they cooled and I could taste the subtle mocha flavor. When they were warm I really couldn't taste the mocha. I might add just a little more next time. "J" thought they they turned out really good. He doesn't like coffee and was hesitant at first but he had 2 as well. (So the must have been pretty good). He was complaining because he wanted some more and he is trying to watch what he eats too so. O well.. I will watch it... I will watch every last crumb go in my mouth and by savoured like there is no tomorrow.. Like I said they were awesome.
