Vegan Matcha Scones w/Chocolate Chips + Vegan Raisin Scones w/Brandy

Vegan Matcha Scones with Chocolate Chips 

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Vegan Raisin Scones with Brandy

Today's blog post is a vegan double trouble fun! When I think of scones, I imagine myself sitting at an outside garden area by the patio, drinking coffee while reading a book as I eat my delicious scones. Not only that but I like my scones soft, yet crunchy on the outside. These scones are EXACTLY like what I just described. The inside is so soft and fluffy. In fact, this is one of my favorite vegan recipes! The reason why I decided to post both of these recipes is because these recipes are pretty much identical. The only difference is that one has raisins vs. chocolate chips. One has brandy inside, one does not. I think it's amazing how I can change a small part of a recipe and something different can be created! Even though the type of food is the same, it's definitely not an identical.

Baked Matcha Mochi Squares (Vegan)

Happy Mochi! As a girl who grew up with eating mochi, I have to bake something with mochi once in a while. I recently got a care package from my grandparents where they packed me some matcha (green tea) powder. Looking at the can, I think it's a pretty legitimate kind. I only put two Tablespoons of matcha powder and look how green it looks! Can you believe that there's absolutely no artificial food coloring in this mochi? It amazes me every single time when I use this matcha powder.

Holiday Baking 2014 (vegan brownies, matcha sugar cookies, chewy double chocolate cookies)

Merry Christmas from No Butter Baking!
First of all, I'm sorry that it's been almost three months since I posted some of my recipes... I was reminded by a colleague that the last time that I posted recipe was in October...it's incredible how time flies by... but, this holiday season, it was a baking storm in my kitchen (you know if you follow me on Instagram :) ) So this blog post, you are in for a treat! Three recipes in one blog post!
One is my famous vegan brownies with a holiday twist, second, chewy double chocolate cookies, and lastly, holiday matcha green tea sugar cookies inspired by my childhood book called, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond with a little twist of Mei.

Vegan Matcha Muffins with Chocolate Chips

This is from my personal experience - but whenever people hear the word 'vegan', they run away. I don't know why...maybe because they think I use some funky ingredient instead of using any animal product? And I do agree that some vegan recipe uses weird stuff like "margarine" - now I call that a weird ingredient because it's made out of hydrogenated oil. Now hydrogenated oil (aka Transfat) is something that you should be avoiding because this was chemically made so that it makes the oil less likely to spoil. And another bad news is that it can raise your LDL ("bad") cholesterol and lower your HDL ("good") cholesterol.
Well, the good news is that I don't use any of those. I think I'd rather use butter than use  margarine; however, since this is a Nobutterbaking blog, I won't be using butter but moreso something natural like regular canola oil, yogurt, apple sauce, pumpkin puree...etc. So I hope you enjoy what real ingredients I use to make your everyday desserts (:

Let me explain a little bit more about "Matcha". Matcha is basically a finely powdered green tea. This was originally used during traditional Japanese tea ceremonies but now in the modern world, this green tea powder can be used as flavoring, food coloring, or even decorations. I really like using this for cupcakes, cookies, and even for mochi. There's many ways to use this powder and hopefully in the future I will be able to show you all the many ways that I use Matcha (: