Vegan vanilla muffin base recipe / vegan chocolate chips muffins

This base can be used with any mix ins. Apples and cinnamon would be great.

1 + 1/4 Cup whole wheat flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup coconut sugar 
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp chia seeds (mixed with 1/4 cup of water, pureed in a blender or food processor)
2/3 cup water
1 1/3 cup So Delicious Dairy Free Vanilla Coconut Milk
1/4 cup Coconut Oil (warmed to liquify)
3 Tbsp Honey
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips (I use enjoy life)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine dry ingredients (Flour through salt) set aside
3. Make the chia seed mixture and set aside.
4. Add in remaining ingredients leaving out chocolate chips &; chia seed mixture.
5. Mix in reserved chia seed & water mixture.
6. Allow batter to rest for 15 minutes then mix in chocolate chips.
7. Line cupcake pan with silicon liners, or spray with cooking spray and use paper liners
8. Scoop the batter into each of the liners
9. Bake for 22-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. You may want to over cook these as they will be a little wet if you only cook them 22 minutes. These are best after being refrigerated over night. Straight out of the pan they can be a little moist. The next morning they are perfect. 

These  muffins will rise but they fall again once they have cooled.  You can fill them about 3/4 of the way full without having them bake over the top of the tin, and then they will settle at about 3/4 of the way full again. 

Granola Bars

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups Rice Krispies
2 cups oats
1 cup craisins
1/2 cup pecans

1/2 cup white chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray.

2. In a large pot melt the butter over low heat. Once melted, remove from the heat and stir in the sugar, honey, flour, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Then add the remaining ingredients and mix well.

3. Pour the mixture to the baking pan. Press the granola firmly into the pan, packing it to a flat and even thickness.

4. Bake for 20 minutes, until golden brown. Cool for an hour in the pan before cutting into bars.

Sandwich sushi

This week I finally decided to try out sandwich sushi. I saw a picture online and was so bored with Brandons lunches I figured why not. My first round I just did bread meat and cheese. Brandon doesn't like mayo so I couldn't use that. I used deli sliced white american cheese and turkey so it would roll up easier. Brandon came in and tasted it and said, "how about cream cheese," so the second time around I added some softened cream cheese. I for sure recommend using very fresh bread on this or it will crack when you roll it up. Brandon gave it two tiny thumbs up!