Une Sage Femme
Move over, Reece.
I’ve had a few people ask for the recipe for these vegan peanut butter cups, and seeing as I sort of made a pastiche of other recipes I found I thought I’d do a post about it for posterity’s sake. These bad boys are the definition of effortlessly fancy.
Chocolate:
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 8 tbsp coconut oil
- 1/2 to 1 cup agave nectar (depends on how sweet you like your sweets)
- Pinch salt
Peanut butter filling:
- 3/4 cup peanut butter (I used smooth)
- 3/4 cup icing sugar
- 1 tbsp margarine
1. Combine the coconut oil and agave in a bowl. Add the cocoa powder and salt; stir until it resembles thick chocolate sauce.
2. In a separate bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the peanut butter filling.
3. Using a tea spoon, coat the bottoms and a bit of the sides of muffin wrappers with the chocolate sauce. Remember to reserve half of your bowl for the tops!
4. Pop the muffin pan in the freezer for a few minutes to harden the chocolate (it doesn’t take long).
5. Spoon the PB filling into the chocolate shells. I used a generous tablespoon in each cup.
6. Top your magical creations with the remaining chocolate sauce. Allow to set in the fridge until firm before eating.
I found that these had to be kept refrigerated as coconut oil gets soft at room temperature.
So look at that! No baking, only 2 bowls, and no whacky ingredients that the average vegan (or non vegan!) baker likely doesn’t have in their cupboard already. Enjoy!
Someone got a new guitar for Christmas, so here’s the ultimate lo-fi folk love song.
I have extreme performance anxiety that I’m vowing to deal with in 2012, so here goes!
Wow! Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter.
There’s a competition and you can help him out by voting here.
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Home births entail a definite small risk, of unknown magnitude. Hospital births entail a wider range of risks, whose magnitude is also unknown.
Uhh, so this is totally, unequivocally, impossibly BOSS. Cherry looks like she’s into amphetamines, but I won’t hold that against her.
Maybe 4th wave feminism will see women having respectful discussions about the decision to have children. If so, I can’t wait.
Today this man and I signed a lease on a place in the gay village. Look alive Toronto. (Taken with instagram)
I just read this in a textbook.
“Interval data has numbers in rank order with the same distance between each of the numbers. There is, however, no absolute zero, i.e. zero is allocated arbitrarily. For example, -5 degrees C is a valid temperature, whereas -5 babies is nonsense” [emphasis mine].
- Principles and Practice of Research in Midwifery
