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Seizing an opportunity to cook for others, I spent my whole morning one Friday cooking treats to bring to my coworkers. You see, all of my coworkers take turns bringing snacks for an end-of-the-week meeting. Traditionally, it has always been cake and wine. When I joined the team, I started bringing miscellaneous treats; sometimes cake, but also cookies or pie, soy milk or apple cider. So that’s kinda my thing.

This time I prepared three deserts. I baked cupcakes and cookies and made some peanut butter fudge. I started cooking at about 5:30am and finished at around 9:30am.

In weeks earlier, the main oven at my house had crapped out leaving me to use the out-dated oven that was left over from who knows when. I had no bearing on the thing, so I burnt the first batch of cookies (the cookies on bottom part of the picture). After burning the first batch, I became over cautious and the second batch came out a little undercooked. Hey, it’s cool. They were all eaten!

I’d actually made them before and they turned out much better. I passed them out at a hardcore show and they were very well received. It was awesome.

The Peanut Butter fudge was pretty good. I bought organic peanut butter to use in it, so I felt good about that. I felt super tricky being able to use a candy thermometer for the recipe. I had made a plain chocolate fudge before and this was unfortunately quite similar in that it was dry. I’d been thinking to try adding some butter. I suppose it’s worth a try.

The great success of the day was the cupcakes. I whipped together a basic yellow cake and slapped some vegan vanilla frosting on and topped it with a slice of fresh strawberry. I felt reaffirmed in my success when they were the first things to go at the end-of-the-week meeting. I’ve actually been craving more ever since I made them.

I got the recipes from various Sarah Kramer books. Sarah Kramer is a renowned vegan chef who has three vegan cookbooks to her name (two co-written with Tanya Barnard). I believe that the majority of the recipes I used this time came from “La Dolce Vegan!”.