Farmers Market: Trial and Error & Yard Sale

Today was the 3rd Farmers market in our small town and I finally made it to this one. I baked ... ALOT! yesterday... and I shouldn't have baked quite so much.... But it was an ok turn out and I will probably do it again later on this summer... But I am going to wait till they get more venders I think. Chey came with, and sold some yummy lemonade to go with all the vegan baked goods. Hope everyone loved them. When it was over I went around and gave some away to the other venders and the guy who runs it swapped me for a loaf of his bread. So that was really nice...

Our Little table. The signs on the table had the prices of everything..
They were cute but cumbersome! and even thou the prices were right there..
Everyone still asked... 

Spent the day before making these chalk boards. With an old closet shelf cut into. Then I used chalk board paint I bought at Lowes for 14.98 a pint or a quart.... I have to go look later.... But I put three coats on these to get a nice even coat. They turned out really nice.. Just wish my boards were a little smoother... But if you use a wet paper towel everything comes off really nicely!

Plus they were really cute.. Think I am going to make one for my kitchen.

Chey sitting in the sun. After these were taken we got some umbrellas to sit under to keep from burning up!

After the farmers market I went to a small town yardsale that was benefiting our new food pantry. I bought 3 games: In a Pickle, Cranium WOW, and Cranium Cadoo. I also bought a group of 4  Pyrex mixing bowls. Some were woodland some golden butterfly. Chey bout the Pictinary man game... They had really good prices! Think in the near future I will collect some info from them and then buy some food to donate.... Vegan food only of course! :) Pictures of the bowls when I get the chance...

Whats Cookin' Latley: Waffles, Cupcakes, Muffins

Been trying out different recipes for the farmers market that I plan on setting up a table at very soon...

The Joy of Vegan Baking- Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These turned out really yummy but I will not be adding the chocolate
When I sell them they will just have nuts... I think more people will
be likely to buy them that way and they will be less expensive.

The Joy of Vegan Baking- Chocolate Peanutbutter Cupcakes
I made these a a Cakewalk Fund Raising for my Little sisters 3rd grade spring festival.
I will also be making these for the Farmers market

French Toast Muffins- 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes

The Best Banana Bread Recipe- 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes
I have become quite  a fan of banana bread and have tried several different recipes. Not because I didn't like it... Just because I like to try new ones... The only thing I changed in this recipe is that I added walnuts. I have never put nuts in our bread but to put some more nutrients into it I decided it would be a good Idea. I also doubled the recipe so I could freeze one for future use. They cooked up in 43 minutes and came out very pretty.

I will also be making these recipes at the first farmers market I go to....

The Joy of Vegan Baking

Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Chocolate chip Cookies

Peanutbutter Cookies

German Apple cake

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Caramel Popcorn ( With added chocolate)

Vegan With a Vengeance

Blueberry Cornmeal Muffins

Vegan Celebration

Sweet Southern Cornbread

Other Recipes

Rhubarb Bread

Banana Bread

No Bake Cookies

Haystack ( Cornflake Cookies)

Later on I will be adding more recipes and switching them out and in as the summer goes on. I am excited and can't wait to go to my first... I have already missed the first 2 and will probably miss this weekends as well. But After that if all goes well I will be selling VEGAN baked goods at my local farmers market!!! Yay

I have also made some other new recipes from some of my fave cookbooks that I still haven't worked my way through.

Igors pasta from Vegan Vittles is one of those recipes that I return to over and over .. One of my faves! Made it twice last week!

This week though I have made:

Crispy Banana-Cinnamon Waffles from Vegan Diner. this is the first recipe I have tried from this book. But I will say with all the flour in the recipe I had to double the milk to get it to mix up. Then I had to double everything else but the flour to get the right flavor... So I am not sure exactly how I screwed up or if the measurements are just wrong in the book.... Who knows... But they did turn out really yummy! And are going to my freezer...

I had to set the waffle iron on its highest setting to get these completely done , brown, and crispy. They are so yummy once I got the right setting. They do take a while to cook even on high!

This made about 24 individual waffles that I am going to freeze some of. That is after the quick fix to the recipe.

Lemon Waffles from Vegan w/a Vengeance . They are crispy and so good. I wish I had everything to make the blueberry sauce! I can just imagine how great it would taste on them! I had to add 3 or 4 tbsp of flour to thicken it up because every '/time I would cook 1 it would crisp up and over cook very quickly. So I also had to turn down my waffle iron that doesn't get very hot to begin with. It is trial and error right now trying to get them done but not overly so. also freezing what I have left of these after all the cooking problems. Hope they freeze well.

These are sweet and lemony and so good once you get the batter & temp just right. I really loved these
and wish I had the blueberry sauce to eat with them.

Ready to go into the freezer.

The first 3 that I really messed up... The batter was to thin and the iron was to hot!

I also added my first flowers to a cake... on 5/29/2011.. Jess's mom put the icing on the cake and then asked me to write and add some decorations.. I Don't normally do flowers or sheet cakes... so it wasn't the best job but I love that I learned something new like the sweet pea flowers...