Dinner, Part 3 (Dessert!)

[legalmoose]

Don't Stir it Fruit Cobbler

1/4 cup vegan margarine
3/4 cup Sucanat (plus some more for sprinkling over the fruit), or some other vegan sweetener
1 cup spelt flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup vanilla soy milk (or soy cream, if you can find it)
4 cups fresh or frozen berries (drained, if fresh - either works fine; do not used canned fruit)
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg

1. Preheat the oven to 350.
2. Melt the margarine in a baking dish (rectangular works well for this). Spread to coat the bottom.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the Sucanat, flour and baking powder. Whish int he soy milk to make a batter.
4. Pour the batter over the melted margarine. DO NOT STIR!
5. Top with the berries. Again, do not stir. Sprinkle a little Sucanat over the berries and then sprinkle the cinnamon and nutmeg. Once again, don't stir it.
6. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until the top is golden brown. The batter will rise through the berries and form a delicious crust (there may be berries sticking through - no big deal!). You can use the toothpick/knife test (when inserted, should come out clean) to make sure the batter cooked through.
7. Don't expect it to last very long, though it does make a nice breakfast the next day (if any is left!).

Reprinted/Adapted from Carol Adams' Living Among Meat Eaters, without permission.

Comments

[tracytracy.livejournal.com]

stupid comment - what is a vegan sweetner? Ie - why can't you use sugar? I understand not using honey... but didn't know that sugar was part of the list of things not eaten by vegans.

Sugar

[legalmoose]

White sugar is sometimes bleached by a process that uses bone char. It's usually remote enough in the processing that it's considered kosher pareve (no meat/dairy) in the Jewish faith, but some vegans prefer not to use sugar because of that particular process.

The recipe would work just as well with sugar. SuCaNat is a sugar cane sweetener (SUgar CAne NATural) that resembles brown sugar in texture (and, to be honest, it resembles kitty litter in color!) and is about as sweet as regular white table sugar.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I need to find someone out here like you to cook for me. ;)