It’s Friday! After a long week of work it’s time to reward your weeklong focus with a little vegan happy hour. Wow your friends and please yourself with these perfect little bite size sweets and refreshing champagne cocktails.
Raspberry and lemon notes sweep through the entirety of these recipes. The tartness of the lemon and raspberry perfectly complements the layers of rose water cake and keeps your taste buds completely satisfied.
Raspberry Rose Petit Fours
Ingredients:
- 2 Sticks of Room Temperature Earth Balance Vegan Butter
- 1 Cup of Granulated Sugar
- 2 Cups of All Purpose Flour
- 1 Teaspoon of Baking Powder
- ½ Teaspoon of Baking Soda
- ¼ Teaspoon of Salt
- 4 Egg Equivalent of Ener-G Egg Replacer
- 1 Teaspoon of Rose Water Extract
- ¼ Cup of Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- Raspberry Preserves
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350
Beat sugar and butter in a mixer on medium high until fluffy (approx. 2 min)
Make egg replacer and then add to butter sugar mixture
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate mixing bowl until completely uniform
Slowly add the flour mixture in the wet ingredients (1 cup at a time)
Add the rose water and almond milk
Butter and flour 2 cake pans (I used circle ones but you are certainly able to use squares)
Spread the batter evenly in the pans
Pop in the oven for 20 minutes and then let cool
Once cooled, cut out small circles
Layer four pieces of cake together (sometimes you’ll have to cut the circles in half)
Between each layer spread a little bit of raspberry preserves and place them on a cooling rack above a cookie sheet
Lemon Glaze
Ingredients:
- Juice of Whole Lemon
- 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of Cold Water
Instructions:
Mix all the ingredients together until smooth
Pour about a tablespoon of the glaze onto each petit four and let the excess drip down onto the cookie sheet (for an easier clean up, line the cookie sheet with parchment paper)
Raspberry Lemon Champagne Cocktail
Ingredients:
- 1 Glass of Champagne
- ¼ Ounce of Chambord
- 1 Cube of Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
Instructions:
Pour the champagne into a champagne glass
Measure and pour the Chambord into the glass with champagne
Add the sugar cube and the freshly squeezed lemon juice
Finish this delicious drink with a couple of fresh raspberries