I'm a most-of-the-time vegan with a variety of food issues. Mostly I'm just trying to tread as softly on the earth as possible and still eat yummy food. I'm always altering recipes and leaving my notes scribbled on backs of envelopes and scraps of paper. I thought I'd gather them here where I might have a fighting chance of finding them again.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Spiced Coffee with Cinnamon
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis

We saw Giada make this on the Ellen Show the other day. Being monkeys, we like to copy things so we will be trying this for the holiday season.

Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
¼ teaspoon ground allspice
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
2 cups double strength brewed coffee Vegan whipped cream

Directions:
In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and ½ cup water. Bring to a boil over medium heat and reduce heat to low. Add the allspice, cinnamon, and ginger and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the sugar is dissolved.

Take the pan off the heat. Add 2 tablespoons of the spiced syrup to each cup of coffee and stir to combine. Optional: Top each cup with a dollop of vegan whipped cream.(Yeah, optional, as if a monkey would EVER make it without whipped cream!)

Dust with additional cinnamon and serve. OOOOOOOooooooops, you got a little whipped cream on your nose there!

Serves: 4 monkeys

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