Recipe: Creamy Vegan Mac

Its so chilly today! I like to eat warm, hearty, savory foods when its brisk outside,

so creamy mac 'n "cheez" was a total no-brainer today.

 

Creamy Vegan Mac

makes 1 hearty serving

 

Ingredients: 1/4 cup uncooked elbow macaroni, 1/4 cup non-dairy milk (I use almond milk), 1 Tbsp vegan butter or margarine, 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast, 1/2 Tbsp Tofutti cream cheese; optional: 1/4 tsp garlic powder, salt (to taste)

 

Cook the pasta in a small saucepan. Once its cooked, drain the pasta and return it to the pan, along with the margarine and milk. Reduce the cooktop heat to low, and return to the pot to the heat. Stir-in the nutritional yeast any salt and/or garlic powder, if you are using them (I do!). Finally, add the Tofutti cream cheese, stirring until it is thoroughly mixed.

 

Voila! Creamy, delicious vegan mac!

 

 

Serve immediately. Enjoy!

 

A Delicious Fall Treat!

I've been meaning to make some sort of pumpkin-spice cake or cookies for a few weeks now, and I finally got around to it today. It is absolutely heavenly, easy to make, and better yet, its vegan!

I didn't take step-by-step pictures because, well, I mostly made it up as I went along. So here's basically what I did.

Ingredients:

1 box of Spice Cake mix (if you're going for a vegan cake, just check the ingredients on the box. The one I used was Duncan Hines Moist-Deluxe)

1 can of pumpkin (instead of oil)

Ener-G egg replacer (equivalent of however many eggs your box of cake mix requires)

1 cup of chocolate chips (*optional; make sure they're vegan - I used Ghiradeli)

Directions:

Follow the directions on the box of cake mix, substituting Energ-G egg replacer for eggs and 1 can pumpkin (or applesauce, if you prefer it) for oil.

I stirred in 1 cup of chocolate chips for good measure (because isn't everything better with a little chocolate?).

Use baking times on the box - mine baked for about 30 minutes.

Let it cool completely before putting on icing.

The icing:

Ingredients:

1 block of silken tofu

3-4 tbsp. lemon juice (to taste)

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1/2 cup sugar

a pinch of salt (to taste)

Blend all the ingredients together (using a hand mixer) until creamy. Spread over the cake once its cool.

Eat up!