...7.31...Friday Favorites...

...I know I've chatted with y'all before about this old green recipe box...

...it was a wedding gift from my sweet Mother-in-Law...who worked at the elementary school cafeteria...and she got all of her friends and relatives to put a recipe card into it...

...most of them are handwritten on index cards like this one...and...most of them have been veganized...and a lot of them have been posted here on the blog before too...

...a few were typed...look at that tiny font...remember typing class...and Royal manual typewriters...and Pica and Elite...this must have been Elite...haha...

...a few are written out on fancier recipe cards...

...this one gave me three different versions of the same Apple Stack Cake...

...this one for Pumpkin Cakes doesn't give me any directions...just ingredients...they may have overestimated my newlywed cooking capabilities...these are a type of pancake...

...and there are a few actual printed recipe cards in there as well...remember Tupperware parties...

...and at the back are some blank cards for me to write my own recipes on...

...and there are a few like this...where someone with access to a copier (which was still not all that common then) made photocopies of a recipe book and then pasted them onto a blank card...not sure about the copyright issues there...

...and that's why I got the recipe box out...I've made these vanilla wafers before and posted about it...

...vegan vanilla wafers are crazy difficult to find...

...these are really easy to make and always turn out perfectly...

...and of course I used them to make another favorite...Vegan Banana Pudding...I had gotten the only kind of vanilla pudding available at the grocery store...instant French Vanilla...the packet is vegan...I just mixed it with almond milk...I usually get the cook and serve kind...but for some reason they were out of it...

...banana pudding is one of my favorite desserts...how do you feel about it?...

VEGAN VANILLA WAFERS

¾ cup sugar
1 ½ (12 Tbls) vegan margarine, at room temperature
½ teaspoon salt
1/3 cup aqua faba
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cups cake flour – I measure out a cup of all purpose flour…and then take out 2 Tbls of flour and replace it with 2 Tbls of corn starch…

1. Preheat the oven to 375° F. Cover 2 large baking sheets with parchment.
2. Blend the sugar, butter, and salt in a bowl until just mixed. Gradually add in the aqua faba and incorporate well; add the vanilla. Sift in the cake flour (blending on low speed, if you use a mixer), and mix well.
3. Half-fill a pastry bag fitted with a plain ½ inch tube. Pipe flattened rounds about 1 ½ inches in diameter 2 inches apart on one of the prepared baking sheets; there should be about 28 cookies.
4. Bake for about 12 to 15 minutes, or until the cookies have a narrow brown rim and have turned a pale ivory.
5. While the cookies are baking, pipe the remaining half of the batter onto the second baking sheet. Remove the first batch from the oven and carefully transfer to a rack and let cool.
6. Bake the second batch and cool. Store airtight.

~Have a lovely day!