Yesterday I posted about Bishop Anthony’s visit for the Akathist, and mentioned some of the food I made for the bishop’s table. Seems like every time I make cookies or cupcakes I do something a little differently, so I thought I’d post the recipes.

I did a half recipe for the cupcakes: 1 C all purpose white flour, 1/2 C teff flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 3 heaping Tbsp cocoa powder, 1/2 tsp salt, scant 1 C sugar. I also added nutritional yeast because it makes me feel like I’m eating something healthy. A few shakes of cinnamon, optional.

One 13.5oz can of canned full fat coconut milk, 1 1/2 Tbsp vinegar, 1 Tbsp vanilla. You could add 1/4 C milk substitute, but I like to leave my batter nice and thick, it makes for a super dense cake.

It’s thicker than pudding. I sprinkled each one with coconut sugar since I was not frosting them. Bake at 350 for approximately 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.

Should look something like this.

The coconut sugar makes them sparkly : ) You can use regular sugar, too, or a colorful course sugar.

Onto the cookies. These were an experimental variation on my oatmeal cookie recipe. I already use a half recipe for the oatmeal cookies, and I halved it again for this one – sorry about the odd measurements!

1/2 C tahini,

1/8 C coconut sugar (or white sugar, or unrefined sugar), 1/6 C brown sugar,

creamed.

1/2 C oat flour, 1/2 teff flour, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 or 2 Tbsp cocoa powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 C unsweetened coconut (optional), 1/2 tsp vanilla, 2 Tbsp milk substitute or water.

1 1/2 C oats, sprinkling of raisins and chocolate chips. Looks like I added a little cinnamon again, also optional.

It was extremely thick.

Drop it by the tablespoon full onto a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.

Voila. You can kind of taste the tahini in these, and definitely smell it, but they taste yummy.

I thought they made a nice addition to the table.

**Please note, for pretty much any of my recipes, you can replace odd flours and sugars with “regular” flours and sugar!