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Cookies and brownies and cookies and beautiful coal tar poison
We have had a sweet-filled kitchen the last few days.
These are the oatmeal raisin cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar, which I am just going to call VCIYCJ because I am lazy. And also I think I might make all of these recipes and that is a lot of typing that stupid name. [...]
Making vegan cooking even more difficult
Last night I had my friends Erin and Liz over for dinner, and I am so impressed with myself because I made us all a dinner that everyone could eat. And it was yummy! Usually that is not too terribly difficult, there are lots of yummy vegan recipes to make, but Liz has the most [...]
FAIL
Well I finally got around to making a rainbow cake using my super-expensive non-coal-tar-derived natural food colorings.
It looked ok before baking. Kind of pastelly, but what can you expect from natural food coloring. I used the VCToTW yellow cake recipe. It is disturbing because you have to overmix the batter so much to get the [...]
things that are expensive and then tofu
Well leave it to Whole Foods to solve your natural food coloring dilemmas and it will only cost you approximately three times more than is reasonable.
I stood in front of these forever agonizing about the price ($16.99!!!) and having alternate flashbacks between my veterinary-bill-inflated credit card statement and the powerpoint slides from a seminar we [...]
a beautiful cake
How beautiful is this cake?
Look at it!
I want to make it but I am scared of artificial food colorings and how they are derived from coal tar and kill you by cancerizing your liver or something. How can I make this with natural food colorings? The only ones I can think of are beet juice [...]