Archive for ‘agave’

April 26th, 2010

dairy free brownies made with agave syrup

340g of chocolate(1 bag vegan chocolate[found at most health food stores in canada, choices, capers, wholefoods])
1/2 cup butter(I used earth balance vegan marg)
3eggs
1 cup blue light agave syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup crushed graham crackers(or small graham crackers)
1/4 cup chopped walnuts(optional)

preheat oven 350F

*line 9×9 pan with foil. lightly oiled.

*melt chocolate and margarine in double boiler

*add chocolate melted to all the other ingredients in your mixing bowl.

*fold in the graham crackers.

*pour and spread evenly into the pan.

if you bake in a 9×9 pan bake 45-60 minutes

once it is cooled down, not totally cold necessarily but able to move, take the foil out of the pan and flatten the edges. let cool down to fairly cold, and cut into desired square sizes.

these brownies are not as dense as these they’re more cakey but just as tasty, maybe a little less sweet, but not a bad thing!

March 22nd, 2010

Vanilla Marshmallows(blue agave nectar)

marshmallows with agave nectar instead of corn syrup

3 packages unflavored gelatin
1 cup ice cold water
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup blue light agave nectar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
1/4 cup icing sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch

pour 1/2 cup of cold water in your mixing bowl with the gelatin

put the other 1/2 cup of water with the 1/2 cup sugar, and 3/4 cup agave nectar in a pot on the stove at a medium heat

in the mixing bowl put the salt and the vanilla bean paste as well.

place your candy thermometer in the pot on the stove.
once it has reached a temperature of 240F remove from heat.

pour slowly into the mixing bowl on a low mix speed. put the cover guard edges on your mixing bowl and crank up to high speed for 20 minutes. (it spits hot sugar all over the place if you don’t have the guard edges for your bowl.)

while that is mixing
mix the 1/4 cup icing sugar and 1/4 cup corn starch together in a container

cover your pan with cling wrap and oil it, and cover with sugar/corn starch mixture.

once the mallow is all whipped up
plop it into the cling wrap sugar dusted pan.

dust the top with the sugar/corn starch mix as well, and cover with cling wrap.
and put in the fridge over night!

slice up to whatever size you want, and roll sides in the leftover sugar/corn starch mix. store in an air tight container.