Cinnamon bread / Süsses Brot

By Dieter

For the dough:
250ml warm water
50 ml sunflower oil
150gr flower type 405
100gr flower type 550
100gr Vital Wheat Gluten
1 pack of yeast
1 tablespoon sugar

For the filling:
1 tablespoon margarine
2 tablespoons brown sugar
vanilla
cinnamon
two handful raisins
one handful flaked almonds


Mix the yeast with the water and oil. Add the flour/gluten and the sugar, and knead a few minutes into a dough.

Cover with a wet cloth, put in a warm spot, and let the dough rise for about one hour.

Heat up the margarine till it melts, add the sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon and stir into a caramel coating.

Stretch out the dough on a surface covered in flour. Spread the filling, raisins, and almonds equally across. Roll up the dough. Cover a square oven pan with sunflower oil, and put the rolled up dough inside. Let it rise covered for another 30 minutes in a warm spot. Pre-heat the oven to 200C and include a container with water. Bake for 45 minutes.

Frosting

Chocolate buttercream frosting

Recipe from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolate_buttercream_11918
Modifications: instead of butter use vegan margarine, omit the milk

Vanilla buttercream frosting

by Dieter

50ml vanilla custard

100g margarine

200g icing sugar

1t vanilla extract

Seeds from 1 vanilla pod

Beat butter until soft, beat in icing sugar, beat in vanilla. 

Beat again before spreading on a room-temperature (or at least not hot) cake.

Vanilla lime frosting

by Corina 

Lots Powdered sugar
1/4C Margarine
1T Lime juice
1t Vanilla

Beat together until the right consistency and creamy

Fruity protein frosting

by Dieter

2 passionfruits 

3T rice protein powder

3T pea protein powder

4T maple syrup

Blend together

6T butter

Blend again

60g protein!

Vanillekipferl (German vanilla moon cookies)

By Lucia Lukas

When we lived in the UK, Luci used to make these and send them to us for Christmas. Now that we live in the US, we don't think they would get past customs so we learned how to make them ourselves!

150g Earth Balance salt-free vegan butter
50g Sugar
210g Flour
75g Ground almonds or hazelnuts
Powdered sugar
Vanilla

• mix butter, sugar, flour, and nuts
• put dough in fridge for 10 minutes
• make a roll, cut pieces, form them into crescent moons
• bake at 180 celsius for 8 minutes (check colour)
• coat in mixture of powdered sugar and vanilla (vanilla flavored sugar is better because the vanilla is already mixed in, but you can also pour vanilla into powdered sugar and mix it together)

Why Buy Ice Cream?

...when you can make it yourself! This is Corina and Dieter’s personal brand of ice cream

(Great recipe measurement converter at The Guardian)

Bouncing Bunny Surprise

50 g     Cocoa powder
200 g     Castor sugar
500 ml Oatley/Coconut cream
1t    Vanilla
1t    Salt

Boil, cool, blend, freeze.

Comango

125 ml Coconut milk
100 g    Castor sugar
1     Mango
1/2    Juice from fresh lemon

Boil, cool, blend, freeze.

Citrus

125 ml Water
100 g    Castor sugar
1     Mango
1    Juice from fresh lemon
1/2    Juice from fresh orange

Boil, cool, blend, freeze.

Vanilla

Vanilla bean pod
50ml coconut milk
1 can coconut cream - OR - replace this and the coconut milk with 750ml Oatly cream
200g sugar
2 T maple syrup

Cut open vanilla bean pod, scrape seeds out, put seeds and shell into coconut milk, boil at low heat, add sugar and coconut cream, boil, cool, take bean pod out, blend, freeze.

Cookies and Cream 

(suggested by Arne - what a great idea!!!)
Make vanilla ice cream
Crush 1 pack (or 1 row) of Oreos and mix in just before putting it in the freezer

Non-alcoholic mojito ice cream

Make vanilla ice cream (using Oatley cream), but exclude the vanilla and include 2/3 C lime juice (7 limes) and zest of 1 lime in the boiling.

Mix in 1/4 C finely chopped mint leaves while it is cooling. 

The ice cream will turn out layered with the lime more like a sorbet on the bottom and the mint in the ice cream on top.

Blackberry ice cream

200g blackberries / brombeeren
2 bananas / bananen
1/3 lime juice / saft von limette
50g sugar / zucker

Mix in blender, put in tupperware and place in freezer.

Salted Caramel

1 pack of Oatley cream (or coconut cream)
100gr of sugar
1 vanilla bean
salt

Salted Caramel sauce

Pour the cream into a pot, add the sugar and a bit of salt. Cut the vanilla bean ope, and scrape out the pods into the cream, before adding the whole bean. Heat up the cream to let it come to a small simmer, while stirring repeatedly. Turn off the heat, remove the vanilla bean, and pour into a container. Add about 2/3 of the Salted Caramel sauce, pouring it into all parts to get it well mixed. Put the container into a freezer till the ice-cream is ready. Add the remaining sauce while eating.