My sister and I are baking on Friday to make up gift baskets for parents, neighbors, etc. and I don't know what to bake. I'm making the pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes (in a mini bread pan) from Vegan Cupcakes take over the World, but I'd also like to make at least one other thing, possibly two.

I thought about fudge, but the recipe I have uses cream cheese and the vegan kind is pretty expensive.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Hey there, this is a great recipe for chocolate chip cookies (although they really don't need the chocolate chips, they're already really great). I've made it many times and its always really chewy and fudgey! The flax seed and milk make an emulsion to replace eggs. Just don't over bake them.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup canola oil
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 tablespoon flax seed, plus
• 1 teaspoon flax seed
• 1/2 cup soymilk
• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups semisweet vegan chocolate chips

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grind flax seeds in a blender until they become a fine powder, then add the soy milk and blend for about 30 seconds more and set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt.
• Cream the sugar and oil in a separate large bowl.
• Add the flax/soy milk mixture and mix well.
• Stir in the vanilla.
• Slowly mix in the dry ingredients (the original recipe does not call for a mixer, but you may want to use yours.).
• Mix in the chocolate chips.
• Roll dough into 1" balls and flatten into disks about 1 1/2" in diameter.
• Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 1" apart and bake for 10 minutes.
• Let rest on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes, then remove with a spatula to a cooling rack and cool completely.

Hi! I catered my friend's vegan party and this carrot cake went over like gangbusters, there was NONE LEFT! It does have a bit of veg cream cheese in it......actually if you live by a good Kosher market you could look for that kind of stuff there, I get it at a real good price at my local Glatt Kosher!

You can also make carrot cake cupcakes!!

http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6516.0

I went to a cookie exchange last week and made my version of snickerdoodles...used a recipe off the web. Subbed ener-g for the eggs, whole wheat flour for white flour, used earth balance for 1/2 the butter and applesauce for the other 1/2 of butter, and used half maltitol (I'm diabetic) for the sugar. They were yummy!

Next stop: the office potluck. I'm making Wheatballs in Cocktail Sauce (the kind with grape jelly and chili sauce) in a crockpot.

Thanks for the ideas! I think I've narrowed it down to either the chocolate chip cookies or snickerdoodles.

That cake looks good too! I may just make that for fun!

When ever I need any recipe ideas I go into www.vegweb.com they have pictures, and awesome recipes