Thursday, April 26, 2012

Double Choc Peanut Butter ANZACs

Yesterday I made 3 batches of Anzac bikkies for Anzac day.

Two batches were my ever popular traditional recipe

And the other....?



Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Anzacs! What doesn't a bit of chocolate and PB make better? Best idea ever right? Well to be fair, a few people still preferred the traditional version. But that's probably cos they're damn good too.

Okay, this isn't exactly one of my most healthy recipes, but you can definitely adapt it using my healthy version in the above link, using dates and coconut oil.

Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Anzacs

Vegan

1)
1 Cup rolled Oats
1 Cup Coconut
1/3 Cup Cocoa
3/4 Cup flour
1/2 C brown sugar

2)
125g Peanut butter
2 TBS syrup of your choice
30g vegan butter
2 TBS water (or more as need*)

1 tsp Bi-carb

1/3 C choc chips

Mix together first lot of ingredients in a large bowl.
Melt second lot of ingredients (PB to water) in a saucepan. Take off heat once melted and stir in bicarb.
Add wet to the dry mix, stir well.
Stir in choc chips.

Bake in 160c oven for around 10 mins or until just lightly browned. Cool on rack, store in airtight container.

*your dough wetness will vary on the type of peanut butter that you use as some are more oily than others. Basically you want your dough to just come together.

Yum!
I love messing around with recipes, seeing how I can make them my own. I don't think I've made a recipe to the letter for a long time.
How about everyone else? Do you prefer to stick to the recipe to ensure success or like to mix it up a bit and risk failure?

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Eats ~ Possible Recipes

I haven't made any "recipes" for quite some time; I'm having too much fun playing around with new food combinations and trying recipes from "Thrive" (Brendan Brazier- Basically the best book ever written)




A thrive style pizza made with popped quinoa and lentils





Vegie Scaps Dinner: Cauliflower, apple and raisin rice with mixed veggies on a roast mushie


Thrive Inspired Curried Carrot  and Oat Balls With Salad, Dressed with avocado mashed with soy milk and nooch
Thrive Burger in roast big mushies

Praties Kale Sweet Potato with Avocado Sauce
Resulting soup from farmer's market veggies- simply and tasty

Lovin' the Farmer's market finds 


Experiments with Agar: Peanut Butter Pie


Experiments with Agar: Lemon Slice

Raspberry Silken Tofu Parfait

Chocolate Silken Tofu Parfait


Healthy "Rocky Road" Raw Energy Bars
I've been trying to focus on cutting out sugars entirely, as well each and  component in each recipe having a positive health value. I'm still making breakfast cookies nearly every second day!

I have kept basic outlines of most of these so if anyone's interested, I'll work on making the recipe perfect enough to post :)