☆The Way Things Are☆

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Welcome, Lovelies ♥

First of all I have to apologize; I know I was kinda silent recently and although I didn't like this status either, I couldn't snatch up to write something. (._.)" I prepared some entries for later, but I was just too busy with myself to post them.
I don't want to write loads of entries and stuff about my private life, just that much; the past few weeks were quite challenging for me, culminating in kind of mentally breakdown two weeks ago. Due to this I had to say good bye to my two mice, because nobody was sure, if I could take the responsibillity for them any more. Things are still not really settled, but that's all I want to mention at this point.

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A bit more about what I did the last weeks, so that this entry is a bit more than whining and wailing. lol
I got this maybe a bit funny quirk that I have to prepare some food, if I don't feel that good with the world around me and although I'm still abandoning sweets I baked last weekend as I was at my parent's. (^_^) Wasn't that difficult to be honest, I didn't feel like eating, just wanted to 'creat' something, you know?
This time I tried a new self-created recipe and you can see below what I used:

Easy Lemon Cookies

♠ 100 gr margarine
♠120 gr sugar

♠60 gr soy flour

♠ some water

♠ 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

♠ 240 gr flour

♠ 1 organic lemon

Batter the margarine and the sugar & mix the soy flour with water, it's better if it has a more liquid consistency. Rub the citron and put the grated lemon rind in the bowl, too. Than squeeze the lemon and add the juice also. Now mix the flour with the baking powder and stir it all together.

Make little blobs (XD) on a baking plate and put it into the oven for about 25 min at 180°C but be aware that ovens differ - maybe your cookies need a bit more time or less. Check them every few minutes (^.^)

 They're looking a lil bit pale, in real they were delicious tanned (^.~)

 The other cookies I prepared aren't made from my own recipe, I just 'adjusted' it for my personal likes, like always. The original recipe is from 'Vegan Wondercakes' written by Kim Wonderland and all credits go to her! (^_^) I freaking adore her baking and decorating skills, check her out she's overtalented imho.

Macadamia-Choclatechip-Cookies

♠125 gr margarine

♠1 vanille pod

♠ 190 gr sugar

♠ 300 gr flour

♠ 100 gr soy flour

♠ some water

♠ 1 tsp baking powder

♠ 200 gr macadamia nuts

♠ chocolate chips (I used the ones from Dr.Oetker)

Same procedere as above; batter the margarine with the sugar, add the marrow of the vanille pod and a water-soy flour - mixture. Stir everything and add the flour & the baking powder, too. Than crash the nuts as they're too big if you use them on the whole and gently fold them with the chocolate chips in the dough.

Put some little blobs again on a baking plate and let them 12 min at 190° in the oven.

That's it (^_^)

Actually pretty simple, isn't it? But these cookies are so freaking delicious.... ♥

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Well, next post will be about university and stuff, the other about my gets and nails... and some more, so stay tuned lovelies and take care!♥

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☆christmas cookies☆

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Merry Christmas Lovelies ♥

I know that Christmas Eve's not arrived yet, but as it snowed some lonely snowflakes today I'm kind of ready for Christmas! (^o^) Due to that I decided to post one of the entries I really thought about a long time, because I wanted to do it right. Hopefully I'll do it! ♥

 I started baking vegan some months before I turend to veganism completely what's kind of funny I think, but due to that I've been aquired my baking skills for a couple of years now and if you believe my friends, I'm quite good at baking (^.^) Not that surprisingly as I'm practising everything I like to do come hell or high water. lol
Sadly I couldn't really enjoy baking before christmas this year as the ofen in my flat's too fucked up to even think about using it (-.-) I  had to bake all my christmas cookies during my two home-stays in december what wasn't really enough time but I managed getting through with everything ( like always....)

 I didn't manage to prepare my favourite cookies though. They're called 'Spitzbuben' and consist of two layers dough with strawberry jam in between ♥ In my opinion the most delicious cookies ever! (*.*)

Before I became vegan I baked christmas cookies only once - due to that I'm not into this non-vegan cookies baking and cannot say if it's really more difficult than preparing them with eggs and butter I'm sorry. In my opinion (and according to my mom who always observed my desperate tries to make them look cute and acurate) it is more difficult because the dough is drier and breaks easily. 
Nevertheless there are a few things that simplify it!

 First of all; the recipe. 
This year I finally managed to create a simply but tasty one! (^.^)v

 ♦ Light cookie dough ♦

225g flour

180g  margarine

70g sugar

1 vanille pod

3 Tables ground almonds

1,5 teas soy flour

 Cream the margarine together with the sugar and the marrow of the vanille pod. Mix the soyflour with some water to make it viscous. Add this mixture to the creamed margarine-sugar-whatever and stir it. Put the flour and the ground almonds bit by bit to the other ingredients and stir it untill you get a smoothy dough.
Put it into the fridge for at least one hour.
After that, outdo them like you're used and put them into the ofen at 200°C for about 10 minutes.

When outdoing your cookies, don't use flour to roll pastry but powdered sugar - it doesn't make the dough break as easily as flour does.

It's better if you don't use just the cookie cutter, but a knife and a spatula, too so that the soft cookies don't break.
Furthermore it's sometimes better, to not roll the pastry too thin, because the cookies could be hard after baking them. 
Last but not least; it's better to get the cookies a few minutes earlier out - they're going to dry out on their own but you won't ever get them soft again!

The possibilities to decorate the cookies are nearly uncountable and I think, you can imagine a lot of variations, don't you? (^.~) I for one tend to go for the 'Pikachu-version' in the last picture ♥

That's it for today - finally (^_^)

Wish you a pleasant night and sweet dreams♥

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