Yep, we're pretty useless, and Oat & Coconut Chocolate Bombs

A lot has been happening in our lives and so while the vegan gourmet journey continues, we have been too lazy/busy/disorganised to document it much :)

However, among other things I have recently obtained a decent camera and ordered a 320-page uber cookbook for my darling husband, and so soon we will be posting some awesome things with decent quality pics. Ta-daa!

Anyway, here's the recipe:

Oat and Coconut Chocolate Bombs
(veganised from: Lekker Sonskyn Resepte, circa before I was born)

Ingredients
500ml sugar
750ml oats
100ml cocoa
a fair bit of dessicated coconut*
125ml soy milk
5ml vanilla essence
125ml vegan low fat spread (i.e. Olé or Cardin)

Method
Mix sugar, soy milk, low fat spread and cocoa. Bring to boil, add oats and cook for 5 mins. Add vanilla essence. *At this point you can follow the original recipe and add the coconut, mix and spoon onto a greased baking tray. I made this for a school bake sale late at night and forgot to add the coconut. So I spooned little blobs of the mixture onto a layer of coconut covering said tray, rolled the little balls (+-2cm diameter) in the coconut and left to harden. Vòilà, oat and coconut chocolate bombs! And it contains protein, fibre and potassium so there :P

Coconut ice

One of my favourite things ever, and one of the first things I ever made myself, coconut ice is just delicious. However, it is not normally vegan as it is usually made with condensed milk. Happily, my mom's ancient "Sonskyn Happies" recipe book yielded a cooked recipe which uses milk. Needless to say this was easily replaced with good quality soy milk. I made some for a koekverkoping at a school and took some to work and it was very popular :)

Ingredients (with apologies and thanks to the tannies who compiled Sonskyn Happies for the church or school or something)

4 cups sugar
1 cup soy milk (I used Bokomo So Fresh powdered soy milk)
2 tbsp syrup
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1 - 2 cups coconut
pink food colouring (optional)

Method
Mix sugar, milk, syrup and cream of tartar and boil for 10 minutes.
Let cool for about 5 minutes, stir in coconut and stir for a while.
Let the mixture stand for a few minutes (optional)
Pour into a greased baking tray or oven dish.
When it starts setting (about 30 minutes), cut into squares.

Makes 16-20 squares.

Delicious! Don't eat too much if you want to make it to middle age =)