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chocolate glazed cupcakes

These are extra fun to make because of a surprise ingredient: avocado! From Vegetarian Times: Glazed Chocolate-Avocado Cupcakes. SUPER rich, shared with friends on Valentine’s Day – positive feedback from all.

Ingredients:

Cupcakes

1½ cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon. baking soda
1/4 teaspoon . salt
1 avocado, pitted and peeled
1 cup pure [...]

roasted radishes with cauliflower and chickpeas

I’ve been curious about roasting radishes, and noticing a little traffic coming to LRR via radish recipe searches, thought some experimentation might be in order. Since I had luck broiling chickpeas (and having just soaked/cooked some the day before), I thought it would be interesting to throw some radishes on the cookie sheet as well. [...]

cereal bars

Another tasty treat from VegNews. I have made these several times and they are crowd pleasers. Great to take along on a car ride or for a hike. Super easy to prepare, and I really like the flavor of the almond butter adds.

Ingredients:

2 cups rice cereal (I found Whole Foods bulk puffed rice cereal to [...]

chocolate pudding

I found this pudding while going through a back copy of VegNews (jan + feb 2008). I’ve made other vegan chocolate pudding before, but this is far quicker and the nut crust makes for a very nice contrast to the pudding. I make a third of the recipe, which fits into a 500 ml ramekin [...]

roasted chickpeas

These little guys are flavorful and hearty. Easy to prepare, and cute to boot. There are many, many recipes that vary on this theme (see here, and this is hilarious from Cheap Healthy Good) and vary widely in both time and oven temperature. I experimented with cooking them at different  lengths of time and temp [...]

hot artichoke spinach dip

I brought this to a New Year’s Eve party and somehow… failed to mention it was vegan. People who would not have sampled it if they’d known it was silken tofu based said they really liked it. Although, when pressed, said they could tell it was “lite” but appreciated it wasn’t as heavy as [...]

chocolate powdered pear

Let’s start simple.  I love chocolate.  This is a bare-bones “recipe”, but if a chocolate fix is needed, it is sweet and very satisfying.

Ingredients:

1 Asian pear
Unsweetened cocoa powder.

Directions:

Core and slice the pear. Arrange on a plate and sprinkle generously with cocoa powder. Serve.