VeganMoFo 2019 #25: W is for Whole Grain Vegan Baking (Recipe Round-Up)

Whole Grain Vegan Baking by Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes is a fun book full of lovely recipes using, you guessed it, whole grains. Some of the recipes obviously do require some fancy flours, but as a collector of fancy flours this at least gives me a chance to use some of them up. I haven't made a great deal from this book, and this is the first recipe round-up to appear on the blog. However, I have posted about a couple of individual recipes in other posts, and you can see them here. Although everything I have posted so far is sweet, it is worth mentioning that there are some cool savoury recipes in here as well.

Baked Speculoos Doughnuts: I made a half batch of these, and got six overstuffed doughnuts in my doughnut pan. It probably would have been better to split it into eight to get some smoother results. But regardless of how they look, they are very yummy. The batter has speculoos spread in it, and then they are topped with a chocolate ganache and crushed speculoos cookies. I made these for a bake sale, and they went fast!
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Blackberry Allspice Muffins: I also made these sweet treats for a bake sale. This recipe book offers both weight and volumes to work with, for this recipe I used weights. It seemed to be less than the volumes, but everything worked OK. I had to make a few changes, I only had sweetened applesauce, and I used brown sugar instead of sucanat. I used frozen berries in the mix, and added an extra one of top of each muffins.
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Peanut Butter Surprise Cookies: The surprise in these cookies is that they have sriracha in them. Spicy surprise! I was making these as a present for a spicy-loving friend, but I still halved the amount of sriracha in the recipe. Even so, they were a bit spicy for me, but my friend loved them and wanted the recipe. These also have peanut butter, chocolate chips, and my beloved five spice. This recipe uses a blend of whole wheat pastry, oat, and amaranth flours. It only uses 1 TBS of amaranth though, so I did some googling and subbed it with barley flour. I did need to bake these for a bit extra, which is not uncommon in my oven.
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Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



A bit of a sad kitty post today. This sweetie is Eve, one of our clinic cats. She is sleeping here in a bed we made for her in a sink in an unused bathroom. She loved sitting there because it got really nice sunshine during the day, and was a bit quieter than her bed on the kitchen bench. We had to say goodbye to this sweet girl on Tuesday. She had some nasty tumours, and wasn't feeling very well. Unlike our other clinic cat Jed, Eve didn't like people and spent her time upstairs out the back, keeping her own company. She will be missed.