Dun-Well Doughnuts FTW!

Vegan donuts, oh how I love thee,

let me count the ways...

1. I love how no animals were harmed in making you...

2. I love how you still taste just as good, if not better!...

3. I love how you play hard to get, so I enjoy you even more when I find you...

4. I love how good you look in that icing...

5. I love how I don't care how fattening you are, because you are oh so worth it...

6. I love how you are spelled donuts and doughnuts...

7. I love you because you are a donut, and that's reason enough!

If you read my post yesterday, you know that I recently visited New York for the first time (if not, you can find my post here), and finally got to go to a vegan fast food style restaurant. After I left there, I hoped my happy butt back on subway like a real New Yorker (well not really, I'm far to excited about riding the subway to be confused with a real New Yorker), and went across town to Dun-Well Doughnuts. They have over 200 flavors of vegan donuts, so it was kinda a bummer that they only had 3 in stock when I visited. I chose to try two of them, a raspberry glazed and a vanilla glazed with chocolate sprinkles. I'm happy to say that I approve them both, unlike this years presidential candidates... 

 

Donuts as big as your hand!!!  

Wait a minute... ice cream?

Yep, they have vegan ice cream too. I got the cherry vanilla, because apparently fast food and donuts weren't enough! When in Rome Brooklyn, am I right?...

Happy Vegan Mofo!

When life gives you 20 lbs of blueberries, make EVERYTHING!

In my last post I talked about my 3 day blueberry picking extravaganza, where I picked a total of 20 pounds (let me be fair... Loukas picked 3 of the 20 pounds) of mouth watering blueberries... That's ALLOT of berries!  And even though I do enjoy eating fresh blueberries by the handfuls, I also enjoy playing with recipes, so here are a few blueberry inspired things I whipped up this past week. :)

Fluffy Lemon Blueberry Cookies!

I used my friends awesome recipe for Fluffy Lemon Cookies,

but added a handful of blueberries to the batter. :)

They were SUPER awesome. You definitely should try out her recipe!

Mini Blueberry Donuts!

For this recipe, I adapted Lauren Ulm's donut recipe from her awesome book,

Vegan Yum Yum, for which I am a proud owner of.

If you don't have the book, you can find her recipe here.

I basically followed her recipe with the exception of halving it (so I could make sure it would actually work with the blueberries), adding about 1/4 cup of purred fresh blueberries to the batter (i pureed them in my magic bullet real fast like), added a bit more sugar and baking powder, omitted the nutmeg and cinnamon, and added more flour until the consistency was right. I just kinda went with it.

For the icing I used a little bit of pureed blueberries mixed with powdered sugar and a dash of vanilla extract until it was smooth and not to runny. It dried and hardened up nicely.

I was a little bit more nervous with this recipe, not knowing what pureed blueberries would do to the batter. But SCORE! it was a win win for all involved.

Blueberry Pancakes!

When I asked the question, "What should I do with 20 pounds of blueberries?",

one person said i should make 40 pounds of pancakes!!!

I heard you, and I'm working on it! :)

For the pancakes, I used Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's recipe from her book, The Joy of Vegan Baking. It's my "go to" pancake recipe. I just added a handful of blueberries to the batter and some on the top after they were cooked. It's so freakin easy and they taste awesome, you will wonder why eggs were ever used in pancakes in the first place.

This is a great recipe to pass along to Omnivore friends. :)

That concludes one week of cooking with blueberries. But I'm not done yet!

I still have visions of blueberry ice cream and pie dancing in my head.

It's time for me to get off of this computer and make a big ol blueberry smoothie... YUM!

Thanks for stopping by!

~amber :)