Review: Pear Galettes with a Belgian Chocolate Sauce
We found these beautiful, tasty goodies at Waitrose. The are very easy to vegainize by leaving out the honey and using vegan, pure chocolate.
I used 1 sheet of puff pastry for each person. Using a small saucer, cut the puff pastry into a circle. Then 1 extra psheet of pufff pastry sliced in thin strips [...]
Sweets for My Sweetie – Chocolate Walnut Date Tarts
These pretty pastries are very easy to make. They are quite sweet, so not much is needed other than a bit of chocolate as a drizzle or decoration.
Serving Size: 2
Ingredients:
2 sheets puff pastry, thawed
1/2 vegan dark chocolate bar
1 tablespoon vegan margarine
12 dates, de-seeded and chopped
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
Directions:
De-seed [...]
Homemade Chocolate Vinegar
We have the “Pièce de résistance” or “creme de la creme” or Chocolate Balsamic Vinegar for you.
Yes, a very special gift for you to make for your very best friends. We bought some of the “expensive stuff” as a tester and have a few recipes to give you to choose from, with some ideas to [...]
Banana peanut-butter crepes drizzled with chocolate
This is a quick and easy treat to enjoy at anytime of the day or night.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
for the crepes
1 cup gram (chick pea) flour
1 cup white AP flour
3&1/4 cups water
2 Tbs. vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbs. sugar
for the filling and sauce
2 bananas, sliced in rounds
2 Tbs. peanut butter
1 vegan dark chocolate candy bar, broken [...]
Chocolate rice pudding with rhubarb coulis
This is so easy to make and very tasty.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
200 g pure vegan chocolate, broken into pieces
1 liter soy milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 capful vanilla
1 cup risotto rice
for the rhubarb coulis:
1 cup rhubarb pieces
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup water
Directions:
Heat the soy milk in [...]
Chocolate and rhubarb self-saucing pudding cake
The combination of sour rhubarb and sweet chocolate is quite tasty.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
For the pudding
125 grams flour
pinch of salt
60 grams castor sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup rhubarb, chopped and cleaned
1/2 cup milk
40 grams soy margarine, melted
1 egg replacement
few drops vanilla
For the [...]
Chocolate whisky cake with raspberries
Chocolate and whisky are so lovely together and with the perky taste of raspberries it becomes heaven.
Serving Size: 8
Ingredients:
For the cake:
1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup whisky
3/4 cup chilled coffee
2 [...]
Red, white and brownies
Brownie with soy mascarpone and rhubarb sauce.
Sweet, tart and creamy smooth, all combined in a very special dessert.
Serving Size: 6
Ingredients:
2 cups rhubarb pieces, fresh or frozen
3-4 Tbs. sugar
1/4 cup water
splash lemon juice
for the soy mascarpone
1 container (500 grams) about 1&1/2 cups plain soy yogurt
2 Tbs. raw cashew nut [...]
Apricot tarts with chocolate sauce
These pretty tarts are very nice and light, especially nice after a full meal. Using a heart shaped tart form makes them a perfect dessert for Valentine’s Day.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
For the crust:
1 & 1/4 cups unbleached white flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup coconut [...]
Chocolate Chestnut Blackbottom Pie
I think these are the richest, most decadent things I’ve ever made. Very chocolaty in flavor and lovely and smooth in texture.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
350 grams (12.3 oz) sweetened chestnut puree
100 grams (3.5 oz) pure chocolate (dark chocolate bar)
12 vegan chocolate waffer cookies or vegan Oreos
2 Tbs. vegan margarine
2 Tbs. [...]
Raspberry chocolate verrine
A verrine is a layering of different complimentary textures, aromas and flavors. Vegans do verrines too! This elegant dessert is the sublime combination of raspberries with chocolate. Thank goodness it is made with tofu, but it’s so smooth, you’d never know it.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
150 grams chocolate, bittersweet, dairy-free
5/8 oz. [...]
Vegan Stracciatella
Stracciatella means vanilla with chocolate shavings. This is a very special treat that we won’t often have, but nice for a special occasion.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
100 grams pure chocolate candybar
1 tbs. powdered sugar
40 mill. cherry/chocolate or almond liquor
200 grams soyatoo or other soy whipping cream
optional cherries
Directions:
Whip the soyatoo [...]
Vegan Peace Of Cake
Originally a Boston cream pie, we will call it Vegan Peace Of Cake to celebrate the true meaning of Mother’s Day. The original Mother’s Day was not conceived to sell us stuff we don’t need, it was a day started by mothers to bring warfare to an end!
Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle [...]
Dalmatian pudding
Chocolate and coconut, what a great combination!
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
400 ml. coconut cream
1 cap full vanilla flavor
2 handfuls coconut
1 tsp. granulated sugar
2 tbs. powdered sugar
2 tsp. corn starch
100 grams pure chocolate (optionally handful chocolate chips)
Directions:
Empty the can of coconut cream into a saucepan.
Add the corn starch and [...]
Skewered Fruit with Chocolate Sauce
This is a very nice, light desert that gives the lightness of fresh fruit with the sweetness of the chocolate.
Serving Size: 2
Ingredients:
100 grams pure chocolate
90 ml. soy cream
2 bananas, cut in bite sized pieces
4 pineapple slices, cut in bite sized pieces
6 physalis, without the husks
8 wooden or metal skewers
optionally any fruit you [...]
Rice Balls with a Chocolate Heart
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
100 grams risotto rice
50 grams bitter-sweet chocolate bar, broken in pieces
vanilla
1 tbs. sugar
pinch salt
400 ml. (1&1/2 cups) water
bread crumbs
oil for frying
3 oranges
2 tsp. corn starch
1 tbs. sugar
Directions:
Put the rice in a sauce pan with a spoonful of oil.
Fry the rice a bit and then add the water and a pinch [...]
Awesome Chocolate Mousse
Warning:
This is extremely delicious! Prepare it at your own risk.
Ingredients:
150 grams chocolate, bitter-sweet, dairy-free
1 tbs. cocoa
5/8 oz. (100 gram) tofu
100 gram soya dairy free alternative to yogurt
6 oz. blackberry jam
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 cup maple or corn syrup
Directions:
Crumble the tofu into a bowl.
Add the soy yogurt, cocoa and the blackberry jam.
Alternatively you [...]
