Saturday, May 25, 2013

Marzipan cake

Heres the cake i made for the norwegian national day 17th of may.

I used more or less the same recipe as last year that i found on vegetarbloggen, but i did some adjustments, so this years cake tasted better =p

Ingredients i used:
400 g flour
2.5 dl sugar
25 g grounded almonds
2 ts baking powder
2 ts vanilla sugar
Some salt
4.5 dl plantmilk
1.5 dl vegetable oil
Some drops of vanilla and almond essence to taste

Mix together dry ingredients, then add wet ingredients and mix together. Divide dough into two buttered and floured 20-24 cm diameter round cake forms and bake in oven on 185°C for 20 minutes. Let it cool.

For me, one of the cakes was bit bigger than the other one. In the original recipe, both are supposed to be sliced in half, but i only did the bigger one in half. Then i did the unsliced cake in the middle.

But ye, back to the assembling. Heres what i used:
Juice (i used tropical juice)
Jam (i used strawberry, but others are fine too)
2 bananas
Vegan whipped cream (i used 2 boxes of GoGreen Visp (2 dl each box), but would be smart to have an extra just in case of need)
Vanilla cream/pudding (i used Freia vaniljesaus mixed with 2.5 dl milk, but alpro vanilla pudding or other vanilla puddings would work too)
Marzipan
Fresh berries for decoration

I had 3 cakepieces so this is what i did:
First i took one of the cut cakepieces and poured over it with juice until it was pretty wet. Then i added the jam, then bananas in pieces, and then whipped cream. Then i added the uncut cakepiece and poured juice over that one too so it got wet. Then i had a layer of jam followed by a layer of vanilla pudding. Then i added the 3rd cakepiece and poured juice over that one too. Then i did whipped cream all around the cake, and on the sides too. Then i rolled out marzipan and covered the cake with it. Then i decorated with berries and some leftover whipped cream.

Heres the result



Friday, May 17, 2013

Tofu scramble

Today is the 17th of may which is the norwegian national day, so then all the norwegians are celebrating =p Ofc i join in with some yummy food =D But other than that, i'll just stay at home and be lazy =p Many people wear the norwegian national costume (called bunad) and are in town, but i dont wear it unless i have to xD

I kinda wanted to have a bit the same as the rest of my family had for breakfast, and they had scrambled eggs, so i had scrambled tofu =D This time i added some (vegan) sausage in it too for extra coolness =p

Heres what i used, and sorry for not more specific amounts, i kinda did a splash of each xd
About 85 g tofu
Water (maybe 0.5 dl? more if needed)
Turmeric (to make it yellow =D)
Paprika powder (dunno why i added this, so it's optional)
Coriander (also dunno why i added this, so it's also optional)
Black salt (for eggy taste)
Nutritional yeast (makes it even more yummy!)
1 vegan sausage in pieces (i used Taifun Tofu-Wiener) optional
Pepper
Chives (optional)

First i squeezed some of the water out of the tofu (mine had been frozen btw). Then i ripped it into little pieces and put it in a pan and put on medium high heat. In a cup i mixed some water with turmeric, paprika powder, coriander, black salt, and nutritional yeast, then i added the mixture to the tofupieces and mixed it nicely while tasted if i needed more of some spices (where i needed more black salt, nutritional yeast and water xD). Then later when it was warm, i added the sausage pieces and let it heat up some more. Then i did fresh grinded black pepper on top and mixed in some fresh chives.