Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous time wherever in the world you happen to be. And if you celebrate Christmas or any other holiday this time of year then I hope it was very merry!
Christmas here in the Land of Sand was definitely merry, filled with good food, good friends, good food, lots of great presents and did I mention the FOOD!?!?!
Christmas Eve kicked off the weekend with this gorgeous plate of YUM!
What you’ve got here is crescent rolls, roasted broccoli, a creamy pile of garlic scalloped potatoes from Vegan Food; More than Tofu n Sprouts, and an Herbed ‘Chicken’ Patty based off of this recipe from Happy Vegan Face. I switched up her basic meatless ball recipe with a lot of thyme and mixed green herbs and the gravy was very basic and filled with delicious tarragon. Scrumptious!
And dessert, oh dessert, I love you so much.
Sticky Toffee Pudding from the Sweet Utopia cookbook.
I was recently contacted by the very awesome Book Publishing Company and asked to review some of their cookbooks and I am SO glad that Sweet Utopia was one of them because this recipe alone has me convinced that the book is pure win. I will be doing a full review in an upcoming post, stay tuned!
About this cake….Epic. Honestly, this is one of the very best desserts I have ever had. There are seriously no words to describe the amazing toffee rich buttery moist luscious perfection of this cake. This kind of dessert, sharing the same deep, intense notes as my Sticky Finger Gingerbread, is my very favorite kind of dessert, rich and dark with a very complex flavor. My love for this kind of taste is rivaled only by my love of all things chocolate and peanut butter. I will be sharing the recipe for this cake soon, stay tuned!
After gorging ourselves silly on Christmas Eve we woke up Christmas Day to lots of fabulous presents and an all out snack fest.
Sausage and onion rolls and a Scallion Cheeseball with Crackers. Tasty and fun!
These were so fun and easy! I sauted an onion and garlic till they were golden and buttery, and then added 3 Amy’s burger patties, broke them up with my wooden spoon and cooked until crispy. Then I piled them into crescent roll dough (from a can!), wrapped them up and baked till golden brown and crispy. So good!
You’ll be happy to know the Scallion Cheeseball was just as delicious and simple! I combined Tofutti Cream Cheese with lots of chopped scallions, soy sauce, lemon juice, and liquid smoke, formed into a gigantic ball and allowed to firm up in the fridge for a few hours. I patted some smoked paprika on it and topped with more scallions. Addicting!
We opened all of our great presents and then took the dogs for a long walk and enjoyed a fun game of fetch and returned home for dessert!
OH MY GOD. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. Oh my god. Ooohhhh….I can’t even think straight when I try to describe this cake. BEST DESSERT EVER. (Tied with the previously mentioned Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake, of course.)
This cake is ALSO from the Sweet Utopia cookbook that I received from the incredibly generous people at Book Publishing Company. I can’t believe that the first two recipes I tried from that book were such a total success. Not only were they both exquisitlely delicious, they were also ridiculously easy to make and required only the most basic of ingredients. You are so lucky because I’ll be sharing this recipe with you soon, as well!
If you are a peanut butter/chocolate lover like me then you will be in heaven with one bite of this oh so amazing cake. The cake part is luscious, salty sweet peanut butter and the icing, oh the icing, I could eat bucket fulls. It is fudgey and chewy and rich and sweet, it tastes exactly like melted Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. HEAVEN.
Whew! That was quite a lot of amazing food, wasn’t it? I hope you are all having a wonderful day and enjoying some beautiful vegan food. Don’t forget to enter my Grand Opening Zukay Live Giveaway and stay tuned for some very special upcoming posts!
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SO awesome that you get to review cookbooks! YUM all of your food looks delicious, I’ve always wanted to try sticky toffee pudding…the closest i’ve come is having sticky toffee pudding ice cream, it was some special edition flavor at haagan daaz. LOL! Chocolate peanut butter cake? Now you’re talkin!
The sticky toffee pudding looks pretty sticky and amazing! Can’t wait for your next review! I copied your quick recipe for the sausage and onion rolls. Crescent roll dough is my old standby for appetizers, so when somebody comes up with something I haven’t thought of to put in them, I’m all over it! Your holiday food looks great!
I love all the adjectives you use! Epic is the best word to describe a dessert, seriously. Gorgeous pictures…
PS – how interesting that you live in Saudi Arabia! My uncle used to work for the Saudi Airlines and lived there for a really long time.
Your treats all look so wonderful (as does that cookbook)! Glad you had such a wonderful day!
Merry belated Christmas! Your meal looks FABULOUS, especially that toffee cake! I can’t wait for the recipe. Glad you are enjoying yourself during the holidays
Yummy! Merry Christmas, Tasha! I have got to try those sausage and onion rolls- maybe for new year’s eve!
The Sticky Toffee Pudding looks amazing. But the Choc PB CAKE??!!! OMG please, cannot wait for the recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You made out like a bandit it sounds like with the cookbook, cant wait to hear all about the recipes! I can only hope they are GF or can be adapted? A girl can hope, right?!!
Merry Xmas, Tasha!!!!!!!!!!!
Those desserts look mighty sweet…yum!
Glad you had a nice x-mas!
Enjoy!
yummm… looks amazzing!!!
I’m practically drooling over your delicious dessert recipes. That chocolate peanut butter cake looks amaaaaaazing!
Actually all your food looks amazing..
That’s wonderful that you had a great Christmas!
Merry Christmas darling Vegan friend! Sorry we never got to see each other before I left but I hope you had a lovely Christmas. See you next year
yay! our holiday has been most stellar, and i hope yours has been too, Tasha! it looks like you two had the most delicious christmas, indeed! i can’t wait for your review of Sweet Utopia – the sticky toffee pudding cake looks absolutely amazing – so does the chocolate peanut butter cake. mmmmmmmmmmmm! your sausage ‘n onion rolls sound downright delightful and i need to make one of those scallion cheeze balls. YUM!
I now want some a PB Choco cake! looks so good!!
That chocolate peanut butter cake looks amaaazing.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today!
I am SO looking forward to those cake recipes. Especially the sticky one – it looks so moist which is what makes a good cake in my book
Part of the recipe is to pour a melted butter/sugar sauce over the cooked cake so it can soak in. Moist doesn’t even begin to describe it! Luscious.
duuude those scallion balls look to die fawww! i would be all over those like white on rice haha. glad you had such a great holiday and thanks for checking out my bloggie
holy sticky toffee cake! that looks amazing – i will stay tuned for that recipe!
merry belated christmas!!!!
Wow! All your Xmas eats look delicious! I’m especially interested in that cheeseball. I’ve always wanted to veganize a cheese ball. I’m reviewing Sweet Utopia soon too, and I must make that toffee cake. OMG! I made the Utopia Granola to give out as Xmas gifts, and it was freakin’ amazing! Glad you had a great (and warm) Xmas.
What are you waiting for!?!? Veganize that cheeseball, you will not regret it!
oh my. oh my! best food porn I’ve seen in a long time. I should have been at your house!
That looks like the best Christmas food ever! I assume Christmas is not celebrated where you are but I still hope you had a merry one.
It’s not technically celebrated and definitely not in the open, but all of us that do celebrate make sure we have a festive good time!
OH MY..all those dishes look AMAZING! Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to you too!
Those desserts sound amazing! Toffee…drool. Glad you had a Merry Christmas. All the best for 2010!
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