vegan apple coffee cake

i bought a big bag of apples from the store, and the first one i bit into was mealy. i HATE mealy apples. i did some research online and found out that cooking the apples will sort of disregard the mealiness. so i sliced up the apples and cooked them down with some brown sugar, cinnamon and butter. THEN i thought about adding this apple mixture to a coffee cake.

i made this coffee cake as a combination of like, four other recipes, so i can't link you to one recipe (sorry). but that should be all the more motivation for you to make up recipes on your own! i wasn't 100% pleased with my results - it was really delicious, but i was missing the light, fluffy texture that usually comes with coffee cake. since i did a vegan version, i'm sure i lost something along the way that would have helped it rise. but it's ok, better luck next time.

vegan cinnamon rolls

scott had been bugging me for a while to make him cinnamon rolls from scratch. it took me a while to decide to make them because they're so time consuming - you have to make the dough, let the dough rise, then knead, then roll out, then make the cinnamon rolls, then let those rise, then finally bake, then ice...aye yi yi. so i promised him it would be the first thing i'd bake once i moved into my new condo.

i kept my word! i made these for him for a saturday morning, and i have to admit, i am really proud of these. they turned out so well, the dough was great, the cinnamon sugar was delicious, and the icing was perfect. there was no way in hell anyone could think these are vegan - i couldn't taste any sort of soy flavor. i'm sure all the cinnamon and sugar covered that up, anyway. i could easily sell these and make the big bucks....maybe one day.

anywho, here are some pictures, and here's a link to where i found a great recipe (you always have to make little adjustment though to make the end product uniquely yours).