About Me
About Me
- Describe Yourself
- I'm a vegan baking freak and I work hard to make this site a place where like-minded people can compare notes and share eats. I have to do it. God told me to. I'm also into going on various running and cycling adventures (to burn off all of the calories, heh heh).
- Interests
- Baking and vegan food design (duh), rediscovering the lost art of food production by hand, camping, friends, beer, Italian reds, home brewing, being surrounded by nature, random adventures with random people, running Veganbaking.net.
- Favorite things to bake
- Pancakes, muffins, crusty artisinal hearth breads, pizza crust, ice cream, cake of any kind.
- Favorite baked items to eat
- Brownies, any kind of pie, any kind of cookies, french pastry, anything with chocolate.
- What types of vegan baking are you trying to master?
- Lately I've been super interested in making meringue-based things like angel food cake and macarons.
- Favorite Music
- Blaring punk rock, minimal techno and everything in between.
- Favorite Movies/TV Shows
- The Mighty Boosh, ALF, 30 Rock, Summer Heights High, The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Favorite Books
- On Food and Cooking, The Bread Baker's Apprentice, The Secrets of Baking, Wild Fermentation, Baking Illustrated, Joy of Vegan Baking, The Professional Pastry Chef, How Baking Works, Understanding Baking, Designing Great Beers, Chocolates & Confections, Vegan Fusion World Cuisine,
- City
- Brooklyn
- State
- NY
- Country
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United States
- Website
- http://www.veganbaking.net
- Twitter Username
- www.twitter.com/veganbaking
- Occupation
- Information Technology Monkey
- Birthday
- 15/05/1976
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Mattie
Thanks Hilda for submitting your amazing Vanilla and Almond Crescents recipe!
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- Member since
- Sunday, 20 April 2008 00:28
- Last online
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: Stevia/sugar conversion...Great question HayGurlHayCafe! I haven't baked with stevia before so I can only nudge you in the right direction. The rough substitution is to use 1 cup sugar per teaspoon of liquid or powdered stevia. But there are other variables: some stevia substitutes contain fillers such as maltodextrin that dilute the stevia which would affect the conversion...
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: Is the salty taste from so...I can't wait to try this! Thanks for sharing....
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: Is the salty taste from so...Hi kk1936! It's not the soy sauce that starts to get unhealthy when you consume to much- it's the salt, or sodium chloride content of the soy sauce. As humans we tend to prefer foods with about 0.5% salt by weight which is about what our body actually needs in order to function properly. Getting too much salt is just as bad as not getting e...
29 days ago
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Re your Vegan butter recipe. Before I begin please explain how you can make that amount of butter you came up with, with so little ingredients. Have I missed something. I'm ready to begin. Dayton
29 days ago
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: Where can I find informati...Hi JME! We think alike! I've made this quest to be my life's work. The lack of vegan baking food science information is precisely why I started Veganbaking.net. Traditional baking has a 200 year start and it's time to catch up! I too didn't feel like getting into debt at culinary school just to learn the ins and outs of food science. And I ...
33 days ago
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: vegan option for candy mel...Hi sweet witch! Chocolate solidification is extremely temperamental business. I haven't been lucky enough to try the Sweet William white chocolate yet but I did check out the ingredients. It does seem to have enough cocoa butter which is extremely important in order for chocolate to solidify correctly. The most important variable in making ...
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: My first vegan passover!...Hi lsparer! So now that it's waay after Passover, I'm finally getting back to you early for next year I apologize for the late response- I've spent the last several weeks scrambling to restore this website from a major crash. Things are much better now and much more reliable so back to baking! The reason why you're having trouble making the ...
33 days ago
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: Spirulina Powder- Refriger...(Hi Anita! I'm posting this answer again because I had a huge website crash and the backup containing this post was corrupted so I had to resurrect it from the database and copy and paste it here. Long story.) This is a great question Anita! As I researched this, all I found were references of spirulina supplement manufacturers recommending ...
33 days ago
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Mattie replied to a discussion Re: Hazelnut based vegan truff...Hi Morgoth, What a great idea! There's on slight issue: When nut butters are made, the nuts are ground in a machine that only grinds them down to a certain particle size. This particle size is considerably too large for chocolate making. In order for particles to not be felt on the palate, they need to be reduced to about 20 microns. This re...
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Mattie is a member of this site since 20/04/2008, contributed 7 questions and answered 42 questions. User was seen last online on 19/05/2012
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