March 27, 2016 – Three Year Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, March 27, 2016
VBC Meeting #37: Three Year Anniversary Celebration
Host of the Month: John
Location: Denton, TX
For our March 2016 meeting we celebrated three years of Vegan Bake Club meetings by sticking candles in some of the food and sort of getting dressed up.
Slynn had picked up trick candles which turned out to be a bit smoky, but all the more festive.
This is what we made:
Drew: Kale Salad
Drew made a salad featuring kale, radish, corn, bell pepper, carrot, and a miso tahini maple dressing based on this Simple Sweet Tahini Dressing recipe.
Billy: Selebration Samosas
Billy took some leftover homemade lentil and swiss chard soup, blended it with potatoes, wrapped it in dough, and deep fried to create these Selebration Samosas.
Lilly: Saffron Rice with Tahdig; Chocolate Saffron Bites
Being our big three year anniversary, Lilly went crazy with saffron. She cooked some white basmati rice that she seasoned with saffron, vegan butter, and salt. She topped off her pretty pot of rice with tahdig, also with saffron and fried a bit in vegetable oil.
For dessert, the saffron fairy melted some vegan Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips, that she combined with toasted coconut milk, unsweetened soy milk, and hand ground saffron. She dipped mini crackers in the chocolate mixture and dusted them with coconut before freezing them solid in preparation of a second layer of chocolate and coconut.
Priya: Fancy Schmancy Crackers
Priya made her fancy cracker appetizer by putting vegan cream cheese on crackers and topping them with a variety of orange marmalade, strawberry preserves, and pear with red pepper preserves. She finished them off with fresh mint leaves.
Ramon and Slynn: Strawberry Basil Mimosas; Vegan Chex Mix; Saffron Cardamom Cupcakes and Cake Balls
For this meeting, Slynn and Ramon combined their effort to make several goods. For a refreshing beverage course, they provided us with strawberry basil mimosas made with Topo Chico, strawberries, orange juice, fresh basil, agave nectar, and sparkling white wine.
Their snack mix course was vegan Chex mix. Recipe included below.
Vegan Chex Mix Recipe
4 cups Rice Chex
4 cups Corn Chex
1 1/2 cups cashews
1 1/2 cups pretzels
1/2 cup vegan butter
1 1/2 TBS brown sugar
1 TBS paprika
1 1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Preheat oven to 250°.
- Pour Chex, cashews, and pretzels into large bowl.
- Melt the vegan butter, and add the spices to it.
- Pour mixture over Chex. Stir well to coat.
- Spread Chex mix on a cookie sheet. Bake for 45 min.
- Cool completely. Store in airtight container.
For dessert, Slynn and Ramon made us saffron cupcakes with cardamom vanilla frosting (inspired by this recipe).
Their first batch of cupcakes, made with a new (to them) recipe, got very large in the oven then sunk down into an overly condensed form. Slynn suspects the problem may have been too much liquid. After the initial cupcake disappointment, they went to a recipe that Slynn has made several times, Golden Vanilla Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, which they topped with cardamom vanilla frosting and sprinkled with gold sugar. Not to be wasteful, they made cake balls with the first set of condensed cupcakes plus coconut, golden raisins, and more of their cardamom vanilla frosting.
Lauren: Fiesta Lasagna
Lauren made fiesta lasagna for this event mainly because it meant not going to the grocery store. She cooked some textured vegetable protein with black beans, Rotel tomatoes, corn, black olives, and onion. She layered the filling with a nutritional yeast based queso, and corn tortillas. She sprinkled the top with green onion and black olives.
John: VBC Favorite Orange Cake
In honor of three years of Vegan Bake Club, John baked the vegan orange cake that many of us have enjoyed baking and eating together over the years. He dressed up the simple cake with coconut whipped cream and sliced strawberries.
Yay three years!
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