#my dark cookie sheet got them done in about 10 min

[whatimdoing-here]

My cookies never turn out like Tumblr pictures 😂

[kiwipie375]

NO BAKE 🌱Vegan Cheesecake with Blackberries and edible flowers ☺️

It was so much fun to make especially with my bby @xxhighwizardxx by my side to make this with ☺️❤️ thank you for the fun experiment

Preparation: 35 mins

Setting time: 3-5 hrs

In total time : 3hrs 30 mins or 5hrs 30 mins

It’s a long wait but it’s worth every bite! 💯

Recipe

Ingredients

Blackberries ( decor and for the topping) ( get 1 big packet of blackberries use half for the jam and the other for decor)

Vegan Cream Cheese (any vegan brand will do but I used Miyokos brand ) (miyokos brand is a small tub so I bought about 3 tubs of the cream cheese)

Vegan gelatin (no flavor)

Dark Chocolate bar (vegan 70%-80%)

Vanilla extract

Chocolate sandwich cookies with vegan cream filling (Oreos or any vegan friendly brand) (for the crust)

Coconut palm sugar

Vegan Butter (any brand)

Edible flowers (any you like to decorate with)

For the cream cheese filling

Time to make it!!!!

For the crust:

(You may need about 28 to 35 cookies)

take out the filling of the Oreos or any cookie with cream filling (save the filling for the cream cheese filling) to the side

Once you have the cookies separated from the cream. Crush the cookies using a plastic bag and rolling pin or use a food processor (if you have one) and crush it until they are almost finely crushed. Once that is set in

Melt your vegan butter

You will need half a stick of vegan butter to heat up use a small pan and set it to medium heat

Once the butter melts, turn off the heat and grab a bowl and place the crushed cookies and butter together and mix it lightly together

Once its mixed place a round baking pan ( place parchment paper aka baking sheet and place the crust onto the pan and set it for the crust)

When done place the cookie crust into the freezer for 15-25 minutes

For the cream cheese filling

Use the about 2 cups of cream cheese

Use 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

1 packet of vegan gelatin

Vegan cream filling from the cookies

Mix the cream cheese with the vanilla extract and the filling cream together until it is smooth

With a small pot boil water (fill it half way)

When the water is boiling hot turn off the heat and with the packet of vegan gelatin place a small bowl and put the packet in the bowl and add 1 cup of hot water and mix it up until the Gelatin powder dissolves and has the consistency of slime.

Then Mix both of that up until it smooth and it looks gelatinous :3 (so about 5-10 minutes)

once the cream cheese filling is done.

Take out the crust from the freezer to check if it solidified a little. Then take it out and place the filling onto the crust and set it inside to the fridge for (3-4 hrs )or freezer for (2hrs)

For the blackberry jam ( Topping)

On a small pot heat up half cup of water (medium heat) wait for the water to boil in 5 minutes

Once the water is boiling place half of the blackberries into the pot and place 1 table spoon of coconut palm sugar (or to your liking of sweetness) let them simmer for 10 minutes

Once you see that they are feeling mushy start mashing them gently, give some jam chunky parts

Once the jam is set place it in a mason jar and let it cool until you are ready to decorate

TIME TO DECORATE !!!!!

Take out your cheesecake and place it on a nice flat surface and with the parchment paper smoothly remove it and place it onto the surface.

Now that your got your cheesecake set

Take out your blackberry jam AND POUR THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF IT 😂 or to wherever you think it’s desired :3

With the saved blackberries from your packet use them as decoration onto your cheesecake and use the edible flowers too and place it wherever you like them and use the chocolate bar to shave the chocolate off onto your cheesecake

Then BOOM it’s complete!

Hope y’all love the recipe and the aesthetics! Much love - KIWI 🥝

[alyndra9]

SPN Big Bang Masterlist

Ever wonder how many big-bang-style challenges Supernatural fandom really has?

Various people have compiled various lists and posted them in various places. Trust me, I have a list of these lists. Everyone also defines the parameters of their search a little differently. Personally, I chose to look for past and present SPN Bang challenges, and then I made a spreadsheet with info about each bang. There are 70+ entries on it.

I included big bangs, mini bangs, reverse bangs, and the herculean mega bang. I did not include other kinds of fic challenges, such as gift exchanges, flashfic or drabble communities. What makes a bang a bang?

Well, it should have writers and artists all paired up and collaborating on their works. Usually there's a claims process, but the important point is you wouldn't just sign up, write your fic, and post. Most challenges will try to get pinch-hitters to fill in if either the author or artist drops out unexpectedly, but even if this doesn't happen it can still be a bang as long as the intent is that everyone gets paired.

That said, often my criterion for inclusion was more like, "does it have bang in the name?" So speak up if there's anything I missed but should have included, or anything included that doesn't meet the definition, or if you just think my definition is whacked.

Size: the original Big Bang community, a Harry/Draco innovation, had a minimum fic length of 40,000 words. This rapidly started dropping as Big Bang challenges proliferated. Each challenge is free to set a minimum wordcount wherever it likes. Although there is a lot of variety in minimum wordcount thresholds, there seems to be a fairly settled line around 10,000 words: a min. 10k wordcount can be considered either a big or a mini bang, depending who's running it, but any wordcount below this is almost always a mini bang, and above it is a big bang.

And then we get into the rarified heights of the mega bang, which, according to the SPN Mega Bang community, is over 100,000 words. (A smaller community has one for over 50k.) Mega bangs are unique to the SPN fandom so far; if anyone sees one in future, holler!

Reversebangs reverse the usual order of affairs: instead of writers starting off and artists choosing stories to work with, in a reversebang artists draw first and then writers choose which art they'd like to write a story for. Minimum size for a reversebang is generally smaller than a regular big bang.

The Friend Bang is unique because you start out paired with a friend and both write and draw for each other. The collaboration bang is an experimental format tried last year by the Sastiel Big Bang where artists and authors are paired up right off the bat and create simultaneously.

(An interesting idea to try might be a doodle!bang. Artists are perennially in shorter supply than ficwriters, even as wordcount limits keep going down. Setting up a low-pressure experience — maybe suggested 10-minute doodle — probably as a reversebang, could encourage artist participation.)

Couple more notes about what did and didn't qualify for inclusion here:

There are any number of multi-fandom bangs as well as bangs for other fandoms. In the interests of getting one list completed, I skipped including these, even though many (perhaps most) multi-fandom bangs would have SPN fic written for them.

In order to be included, a bang must have completed a round productively or else be less than a year old. Older bangs which never got off the ground are included in this list here. One exception that merits honorable mention in my list is the slackers bang, whose mod posts tell their own tale.

If a challenge's home page has been deleted, then inclusion rests on whether I can find fic/art for it, for example an AO3 tag. If you show me fic, I will include it in my list.

A note about schedule dates I've included: I deliberately tried not to get too precise. Challenges may or may not be regular from year to year, and schedules may be adjusted. Always check the bang page if you're interested in a challenge, rather than planning based off the dates in this! This is just to give a general idea. Some will certainly end up not being what I have down here. Links are to sign-ups open as of when I last checked. The numbers before months are just there to enable sorting by month.

The latest round column is the last year in which a round of fic started being posted, for dormant communities. If they're doing a round in 2017 it should say 2017. Occasionally communities will skip a year or three and then run another round, so dormant may not mean dead! Communities with a history of this are marked ongoing, but may not have schedule information posted.

Eventually I would like to replace the "year started" and "latest round" columns with (There are now) columns for each year which contain links to the masterposts for each round. Here's a resource with links to masterposts, in the meantime! for other fandoms. ETA 3: Done! Numbers indicate fic/art pairs for each round, plus scattered unpaired works. Mods who put in the labor to make masterposts, I love you and you get cookies bold font. Mods who tally their entries to spare me counting, you totally rock! Asterisks: because Sheets throws fits about more than one link in a cell, an asterisk means Intrepid Reader should exercise their detective skills to find all the fics; for example, by clicking to the next month on a LJ calendar. Note about calendars vs. tags: often there will be a tag for each round. However, I link to the calendar or archive rather than the tag, if I can't find masterposts, because I can't know if everybody tagged properly without doing a ton of cross-checking, and I don't want to miss anybody. I'll link to tags only if I'm assured they're complete.

Also, if you are a mod (or civic-minded citizen) who has shiny new (or old but well-hidden) masterposts for previous years, please do link me up!

“Main” and “wing” should be self-explanatory. (They were shorter than “Primary” and “Secondary.”) The “Other” column could be any site challenges are hosted, but right now it’s all Dreamwidth (dw). The numbers in the AO3 columns indicate how many works there are in each tag or collection. Keep in mind that tagging and collecting is up to individual authors, and therefore neither the tag nor the collection is likely to represent all work for a challenge, nor will they necessarily consist of the same works. Check challenge masterposts for complete works. Here’s the tag collection for Big Bangs on AO3. I’m sure there are tags and collections on AO3 that I haven’t yet found the links for, but I’m still on it! ETA 2: I’ve now looked at all 641(!) collections with Supernatural in them. Unless you named yours “LMNOP2″ or “Drabbles Comm: Socks” and didn’t include a description, I should have all Bang collections up in the Doc. (Stray tags may still crop up.)

My Google Spreadsheet of SPN Big (and otherwise) Bang Challenges!

Anyone can comment directly into the document or contact me with additional information or suggestions! Feel free to link to this from anywhere you like as well. Note that there are a couple new challenges with author sign-ups closing TODAY, August 31!

ETA: Fun with filters!

The awesome thing about speadsheets is that you can sort all the data any way you like! Here’s a quick rundown of possibly-useful information.

Even if you don’t have editing privileges on a Google Doc, you can still sort columns. It won’t permanently change the doc or impact the way others are seeing it if they’re viewing it at the same time as you. All you do is mouse over the top of a column where it says “A”  and a little arrow will appear for you to click on. So if you’re an artist, feel free to sort by ‘artist signups,’ or if you just like reading everything as soon as it comes out, sort by ‘posting starts.’ The default way I have the Doc sorted is first I sort by ‘status,’ then by ‘writing signups,’ then by ‘latest round.’ This means that the doc will be sorted primarily by the year of the latest round, then by the month writers should sign up in, then by status.

I renamed challenges which haven’t yet gone a round from “new” to “virgin,” not just for amusement, but so we could have an alphabetical list: Closed, Deleted, Dormant, Hiatus, Polling, Ongoing, Virgin. Is that not sweet? You can sort by that, or alphabetically by name, etc. Play around, have fun, and when you’d like to go back to the standard view, just ‘X’ out of the dark gray filter bar.

[dissociatedchef]

Zucchini Muffins

Zucchini Muffins

(Makes about 14-18, depending on tin size)

[inspired by: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/zucchini_muffins/]

changes are denoted by * following the ingredient

Ingredients:

Necessary:

4 Small/Medium Zucchini Squash, grated

2/3 cup liquid fat (Vegetable oil)

1 & 1/3 cups sugar (White sugar)

2 large eggs, beaten

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 teaspoons baking soda

Salt to taste (Pink Himalayan Salt)

3 cups flour (All Purpose White)

1 teaspoon cinnamon*

1 teaspoon ground cloves*

½ teaspoon nutmeg

an indeterminate amount of finely shredded unsweetened coconut* (sorry, I just dumped about ½ a cup if I had to guess? Or a fistful. Not sure)

Optional additions (NOTE: this will increase output, and you may need more liquid ingredients):

Walnuts: shelled, quartered and dry toasted before use in pan

Pumpkin Seeds: shelled (can be bought this way), toasted before use

Sunflower Seeds: shelled and dry roasted in pan before use

Carrot: peeled and grated before addition

Cranberries: dried fruit is best, but you can do you

Honey: yes, as an addition.

Brown sugar or Streusel mix: top the muffins for a crunchy caramel top or a crumbly coffee cake top!

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350° F (175° C) so it'll be nice and toasty for when you're ready. 

Take your zucchini (and carrots if you so choose to add them) and grate them on the medium sized box on a traditional box grater if you've got it. Not the very large one, and not the extremely fine. Limber up ahead of time, and watch your fingers. If you've got a finger guard or cut glove, now is the time to test it out! I didn't personally use a food processor, but any mid-sized grate setting would be fine.

Take your shreds and toss them into a mesh colander/cheesecloth/very clean dish cloth meant for this purpose (have any that are balding?) and WRING those suckers out! They have so much liquid in them, it's super unneeded.* This is not in the original recipe, but I found that the ingredients I used gave me plenty of liquid. I didn't get much liquid out, so your mileage may vary. (If you're adding in some more dry things, don't go so hard and leave a bit in to help!)

Take the largest bowl you plan to use, and combine your eggs, sugar and vanilla. I suggest using a balloon whip/wire whisk to get the ingredients well combined and smooth. Take your shreds and liquid fat, in my case it was vegetable oil, and dump it into this bowl. Make sure they're well combined with your eggs, and then clean the whisk off and dump it in your sink. You won't need that anymore, everything from here on out is a bit more delicate and a whole lot more stringy.

Take a mid sized bowl and add your flour, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Use a rubber spatula to mix these together well, then add gradually to your zucchini-egg mix. Be careful not to mix too much, just enough to combine the wet and dry ingredients. At this point, you can add any other goodies you'd like. This is where I made the split decision to throw in a random amount of fine coconut shreds.*

Using whatever you'd like to coat your muffin tins (medium-large sized, preferably thick dark metal), add paper cups and grab your mix and get to dividing! These don't rise a whole lot usually, but a bit, so feel free to fill them just about to the brim of the tin. Once done, they're set for the oven (or additional topping prior to that, and then oven) and they'll cook for 20-25 min give or take. If you have thin bottomed muffin tins, put it on a sheet tray/cookie tray in the oven to keep your bottoms from burning. It's awful and just sad when it happens, as I found out with my smaller tin.

Your muffins are done when a toothpick...fork...knife...bamboo skewer, whatever you've got, goes into the middle of your muffin and comes back just about clean. It might catch a bit but should not be WET or DOUGHY. Take them out, let them rest in the tin for about 5-10 minutes, and fully cool on some sort of rack outside the tin. Don't forget to take the paper off if you used paper cups!

These are super dense, but pretty darn good, and they freeze well so don't be afraid to bag a few up and freeze them. Just remember to date them and get as much air out as possible, and you'll thank past you if you take the paper off ahead of time.

This method will probably do for any other similar muffin, and any other baked good follows the testing method. “It's done when it's done”!