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Not only have I just written the most honest blog post title yet, but I’ve also somehow made absolute MAGIC in the kitchen. And because I’m super generous (sui generis?), I’m sharing the recipe with you today. I really can’t get over how delicious these cashew butter cups are. Like I said, they have no business being so amazing, and while they also have no business being called ‘cashew butter cups’, it sounds a lot better and is easier to say that than ‘random protein powders and sneaky bean cups’ ewww I knowww but stay with me.
So yeah, these are sneaky aquafaba (no aquafaba used but I like saying aquafaba instead of ‘af’ because the latter looks like a typo and I am deliberate about my werds) healthy little treats. Sure, they are encased in chocolate and full of maple syrup but look at everything else! It’s basically oatmeal, and you can and should have these for breakfast. Start your day right! Who needs coffee?
obligatory fancy paper towel shot i’m so fance-ayy you don’t even knowww i don’t know the words
I was inspired to make these because of several things. First of all, I realized I hadn’t made my amazing homemade peanut butter cups in like a year, and that’s not right. Second of all, I have a very-many-kilo tub of cashew butter I got super cheap recently and need to use before we set off on our upcoming long-term travel (more on that next week!). Third, I like chocolate-y desserts and especially nut buttery cups, but I also like getting a shittonne of protein because I like working out and being stronger than all the non-vegans at my gym (ALL OF EM) and according to my husband my upper back is getting scary so we gotta maintain that (#SoSwole #VegansWhoSwole #WhatDoesSwoleMean). So, like Joey with his hot girls on one hand and jam on the other, we’re gonna put those hands together and make chocolate nut buttery cups that happen to be full of protein and oats and nut butters and generally every food necessary for sick gains bro.
I got the idea to mainly use cashews and to add in oats (god I love oats and thank goodness for that considering they will compose roughly 1/3 of my diet this summer #trainlife) from The Loopy Whisk blog. I was originally going to adhere more closely to her recipe, but as always I cannot be controlled in the kitchen and I went nuts with other ingredients and the powders and randomness that all turned out wonderfully. Chaos is yummy. And with this sort of thing, you can be super flexible about your measurements and anything you’d like to personally add (or subtract) and it’ll most likely turn out great, especially when you cuppify it in chocolate. I am still so shocked at how amazing this filling is, though. It really tastes like mildy cashew buttery cookie dough! This makes a lot a lot of filling, which I am happy about because I made some tiny balls (hehe balls) of just the filling and froze them, so I have these little ice cream-y cookie dough balls that are really nutritious and perfect for warm weather snacking, especially in a land that doesn’t believe in air conditioning. Who needs AC when you have frozen mini cookie dough balls! You can also just melt more chocolate and use all the filling up making cups and cups and endless cups, if you have that many cupcake liners/Silpat mats/time units. Or you can just halve the filling recipe like a CHUMP but there are no chumps reading this blog so enjoy the extra however you please.
I’m super obsessed with the little smooth hats the silicone mat creates
PROTEIN-PACKED CASHEW BUTTER CUPS
Ingredients
For the filling:
For the filling:
- 3/4 cup cashew butter
- 1/3 cup peanut butter
- 1 overflowing cup chickpeas (what other kind of cup of chickpeas IS there am I right)
- 2/3 cup oats
- 2/3 cup brown rice protein powder
- 1/3 cup pea protein powder
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk – be flexible with the amount if like me you have to use a blender (more on that below) and also you know what, if you have a sweetened and/or flavored milk, just go nuts and use it we are making a sweet thang after all you get down with your bad self!
For the chocolate:
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- Flaked sea salt for dusting if you roll like that and don’t have high blood presh
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Directions
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obligatory gorgeous inside blender shot you are welcome 
Step 3: the first chocolate layer 
Step 6! We’re getting there! |
i’m so neat
Yay we did it! Aren’t they soo good? I am so excited about these and I hope you like them. Enjoy!
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Three Count ’em THREE Fantastic Dessert Recipes & A Big Hello There!
Look I used a fancy pants flower muffin pan
Man alive, I haven’t posted in a while! And I haven’t posted about food in a longer while! My deepest apologies to all of you who have been sitting at the computer hitting refresh…refresh…refresh for the past month. I hope you took bathroom breaks.
I’ve been so busy because I have been planning a wedding! We have compressed the expected 10-12 month process into about 2 months, so I have been hella distracted. But there’s always time to bake because I read that the appropriate wedding diet is baked goods. So here are three (3!) recipes to make amends for the computer silence lately. From here on out, we should be posting regularly because I hired someone to yell at me every day until I write. (That part is true except for the hiring and paying.)
All three of these recipes were made out of NECESSITY. First, I found a sick sale on Dandies vegan marshmallows at Mom’s Organic Market, so you know I bought the entire shelf. That led to recipe #1. Then, I needed to use up browning bananas. Hence recipe #2. Finally, I found an old can of pumpkin pie mix in the back of my cupboard, and while it wasn’t necessarily going to go bad anytime soon, I sensed how wrong it was to have Thanksgiving food around in the summer. I felt the ghost of Squanto standing in the corner of my kitchen with his hands on his hips, arching his left eyebrow, and mouthing ‘For. Shame’. So that’s recipe #3.
Oh also all three of these recipes have chocolate chips. You can obviously omit or exchange them if you want but then wtf would be wrong with you?
CHOCOLATE CHIP MARSHMALLOW COOKIES
Dudes, before you say anything, I do realize that if I added pecans or almonds or some such, these would be properly called rocky road cookies, but as you well know, sometimes you feel like a nut
BUT SOMETIMES YOU DON’T.
Dudes, before you say anything, I do realize that if I added pecans or almonds or some such, these would be properly called rocky road cookies, but as you well know, sometimes you feel like a nut
BUT SOMETIMES YOU DON’T.
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Ingredients:
**Note: When I used Earth Balance, it produced more of a biscuit-y cookie. The oil made a chewier cookie that I greatly preferred, but some test subjects liked the biscuitness. Your call! Directions:
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The biscuity buttery batch
This is how it looks when it is mixed. Ta daaa
This is what the inside of an oven looks like.
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SOFT BANANA CAKE WITH SPECULOOS AND PEANUT BUTTER RIBBONS
That shit sounds goooood. This was definitely more like cake than regular banana bread. I think because I didn’t use wheat flour or flaxseed, which is usually in my banana bread. Or, it could be because I ate it straight from the oven…
That shit sounds goooood. This was definitely more like cake than regular banana bread. I think because I didn’t use wheat flour or flaxseed, which is usually in my banana bread. Or, it could be because I ate it straight from the oven…
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Ingredients:
For the ribbons:
Directions:
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VEGAN PSA THIS IS WHAT BANANAS LOOK LIKE
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PUMPKIN PIE MUFFINS
What’s better than pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins! So yummy and it shouldn’t just be relegated to November.
What’s better than pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins! So yummy and it shouldn’t just be relegated to November.
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Ingredients:
Directions:
Before. Raw food.
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VEGAN PSA THIS IS WHAT PUMPKIN FROM A CAN LOOKS LIKE
This is what milk on top of canned pumpkin looks like.
Seriously this flower muffin pan makes everything special.
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Ta daaaa! Enjoy! I hope you make all of these right now! They all use the same oven temperature and chocolate chips so it’s not that big of a deal. I’ll be back with lots more stuff soon! Yebop!
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Veganizing “Friends”: Joey’s (AND ONLY JOEY’S) Fried Clams
As we’ve studied the eating habits of the Friends over the past few weeks, what is the most important lesson we’ve learned? JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD. Correct! In “The One With The Birth Mother”, in one of my favorite Joey storylines, he dates a woman (Annie Parisse) who does silly things like order plain salads but mooch off of Joey’s dinner. I agree with Joey on this one: Order the food you want to eat! (As long as it’s vegan, obvs.) Anyway, Annie (let’s just call her Annie) doesn’t really understand that it’s weird to take food off of someone else’s plate, at least without asking first. The conflict comes to a hilarious climax with Joey’s seafood platter dinner. He thinks he’s successfully distracted her with extra fries (which he is willing to share), but no such luck:
HAHA Joey at the end of the above video is MY FAVORITE EVER. Anyway! So, as you heard, the following conversation occurred:
Annie: (looks over at Joey’s platter) Oh wow, are those stuffed clams?
Joey: Uhhh.. yes, they are my stuffed clams.
Now, you’re probably thinking, “Hold on, woman. It says ‘stuffed clams’, not ‘fried clams.'” A few points:
- See his seafood platter plate, with all those little fried somethings? They look clam-sized, not shrimp-sized. (I know you see the actual stuffed clam in the shell later, but he could have had clams a few ways!)
- What do you think Joey would like better, something stuffed, or something fried? Correct.
So, we’re going to make fried clams. Much better idea, right? Who has food-grade seashells lying around?
Nori is not the best idea here
I generally used the homemade seitan recipe from The PPK blog, because it’s great. I ripped the seitan pieces into long strips, and boiled it in broth with seaweed and dill thrown in. I didn’t have any kombu, so I used nori in the broth. If you have kombu, use that, because the nori isn’t meant for boiling and it disintegrated. Messy seaweed. You can see in the picture, it gets kind of weird. Kombu would impart a stronger flavor anyway. After the strips boiled, I breaded them and baked them. Let’s see!
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FIRST, MAKE SEITAN
INGREDIENTS:
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DIRECTIONS:
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How weird does this look with the disintegrating nori! Don’t do it!
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THEN, BREAD THE STRIPS
INGREDIENTS:
Coated strips, ready for cooking These turned out really well! They might not be salty enough for you, but that’s what sauces are for. You can make a vegan tartar sauce by blending vegan mayo, mustard, pickle relish, and capers, or you can just use ketchup. Really, any kind of sauce works here. An amazing thing I might do tomorrow with the leftovers is to mix vegan mayo with sriracha and a drop of Frank’s for a crazy spicy orange mayo like the type that comes with sushi rolls.
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DIRECTIONS:
It makes a lot! Dayum! |
Now, with your sauces ready, your strips crunchy and baked (or fried if you are awesome), you can enjoy them on a plate, as Joey did in this episode. ORRR, you can honor Mr. Joseph Francis Tribbiani even more, and make a sandwich! Because what is Joey’s favorite food? Say it with me: Sandwiches!!!
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Not bad for my first try |
In sandwich form, I’d definitely recommend tartar sauce and whatever else fried-clams-on-rolls are usually served with up in New England. So good! These were overall really easy to make, and they turned out well. You can play with the breading mixture and add spices as you desire, perhaps some cayenne pepper, curry powder, or, if you are like me, more nooch. Yum! And, let’s say it all together now:
Giveaway trivia!
- Joey’s favorite food is, of course, sandwiches. But what is his favorite kind of sandwich?
- In Monica and Chandler’s storyline, they meet a woman at the adoption center who likes them. What does this woman think M & C do for a living?
- Extra credit: What Pulitzer-prize winning show featured a fantastic Annie Parisse?
