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🌈Pride Rainbow Cookies🌈

Rainbow Cookies are one of my favorite sweet treats to make. And’ve come a long way since my first attempt in 2009.  I used this wonderful recipe adaptation to make this 6-layer version in celebration of Gay Pride.  On the food coloring front, I tried Chefmaster Liqua-Gel food coloring (confirmed vegan on Read more…


What A Dad Wants.

VCTOTW vanilla layers, coconut whip and strawberries… with a little lemon zest and one blackberry: This is what Dad wants. An oozy, creamy layer cake is what he gets.  Happy Father’s Day!


Mom’s Birthday Treats

Sometimes I make a double batch of cookies, then I make a batch of cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, then I make a lemon bundt cake (not pictured).  Then, I bring them to my Mom for her birthday.  Then I run the dishwasher. VCTOTW basic chocolate, of course. I tried to make Read more…


Campfire Cake Craving

I had a craving for a marshmallow meringue-encased cake. Pretty specific, I know.  But, a craving is a craving. So a marshmallow meringue-encased cake it will be!  I made the s’mores cake from VCTOTW and a big batch of fluff. Then, getting fancy with some brulee action. Craving fulfilled.


Everybody Gets A Cookie

I made marshmallow chocolate chip cookies for holiday gift-giving.  And I’m too tired to say much more about it.  But a picture is worth… yadda yadda yadda.


Hanukkah Rainbow Cookies

I made beautiful ombré holiday cookies a couple of years back, taking inspiration from Bon Appetit.  This year I made Hanukkah Rainbow Cookies!  And they are possibly the most beautiful cookies I’ve ever made, receiving lots of social media love.  So here is a lot of pictures of them and Read more…


Cook’s Illustrated, Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

Firstly, a giggling me photoshopped the picture above… but it is not that far off an idea that Cook’s Illustrated, my favorite print magazine, would soon contain a vegan or “plant-based” feature.  To this point, the latest issue had write-up on the coconut whip, the well-loved easy-peasy pantry tip, in Read more…


Nabisco Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies

I’ve written about these cookies before, a cookie so ingrained in my memory that I can still vividly experience them. From the shuffling through the brown paper grocery bag, as tall as me, in the backseat of my mother’s car to find and be the first to open them; to opening Read more…


Vegan Marshmallows Now $2.99 Indefinitely!

Trader Joe’s now has vegan marshmallows. That’s how Trader Joe do. They buy formulas and sell ’em under their brand. So it’s important to understand that these marshmallows are really… Dandies. The deal is helping spread vegan joy through Trader Joe’s massive distribution.  Now that they are so cheap, I’m going to Read more…


Delicious Vegan Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Cookies

My annual week of gluten-free is coming! I’m going to need cookies to munch on. I adjusted this recipe with very delicious results. They’re satisfying and not so gritty. Dry: 1 1/4 cups blanched almond flour 1 1/4 cups gluten-free flour blend (I used Namaste.) 1/4 heaping teaspoon salt 1/2 Read more…


Vegan Holiday Treats For Sweets

I hadn’t made vegan rainbow cookies for years! And since then my baking skills and kitchen set-up has improved a great deal. With dessert duty for a work potluck and inside the inspiration of the holiday cookie issue of Bon Appétit, I had to step it up. I used The Veg Life’s awesome Read more…


Breaking in my Scandinavian Krumkake Iron

I picked up this ol’ cast iron Krumkake iron from an antique shop in Wisconsin somewhere, knowing it’d make an interesting addition to my kitchen items that have to be stored in the basement. I’d need a thin batter. A crepe batter. I used this one. It’s a really tasty batter. Read more…


Sassy’s Eat This

I used to check Sassy out at the library when I was a little girl. I eventually started a subscription once I got a checking account, which was the only way I could pay for mail order records. The magazine had a page at the end called “Eat This,” where musicians or other Read more…


Green “Irish” Toast

Breakfast is my favorite meal. It probably has to do with years of eating cereal for breakfast… and dinner. So I’m going to make it for lunch for this upcoming week. But in honor of my Irish heritage, I’ll add coloring to my French toast batter. Add flax to everything. Read more…


Holidaze is clearing.

A few weeks before Christmas, I had grand fantasies of holiday treat-making for friends and loved ones.. And with a small stash of Medjool dates, those oh-so delicious vegan and gluten free Twixes from Fork & Beans were to feature prominently. The simple date caramel recipe is probably my most favorite Read more…


Autumnal Check-in

Cauliflower White Bean Risotto with sun dried tomato, spinach and pine nut. I love cauliflower, like I love all the veggies in the Brassica oleracea family but… if you’re storing some up for the week you have to deal with a little bit of stink before reheating. Roasted acorn squash Read more…


Vegan Twix, Or the Most Delicious Thing I Ever Made

I thank the amazing Fork & Beans for this amazing recipe that I plan to make, like, every week. Date caramel. Dates are deceptive little darlings, aren’t they? This stuff is perfect. The Twix base. Clever. All topped with date caramel. Try not to eat now. Try not to eat Read more…


Vegan Swiss Fudge Cookies

I’ve always wanted to try the vegan recipe for Swiss Fudge Cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. The Stella Doro ones were a favorite of mine when I was a kid. The PPK calls them Starry Fudge Shortbread cookies. The recipe is a bit involved, the kind of cookie recipe you don’t really want to spend your Read more…


Food Miscellany.

Rainbow Boba’s January VeganCuts box. (I’ve since picked up another bag of Beanfields.) Eli’s treasure bar. I’ve had one of these before… but this one was so very fresh and delicious. A world of difference! I had to experiment with the freekeh right away. I made panelle for this week’s Read more…


Hello 2013! Let’s Eat.

2013 is officially here! To start the year off on the right foot, I needed a good meal and a sweet treat. First, the savory. Lasagna. Enormous noodles started the layered deliciousness. Then a creamy tofu ricotta with huge parsley kick. Then grilled eggplant. Repeat. Next, while the lasagna bakes, Read more…


You Are What You Eat

I’ve been called a snob many times in my life. But I’ll get back to that. As a budding adult, in weird‘s last true gasp, I found transitional identities that touched each of my developing ideals. Being straightedge was more than a penchant for guys with shaved heads, it was Read more…


The End of Spring Break = Wah

Ah, the days of lounging about leisurely making Milanos are over. I used Isa’s great recipe but …had some missteps. First, I put in too much flour. Sure, I could have easily fixed this but once my hands were covered in dough, there was no going back. The bigger misstep was Read more…


Hurricane Cookies

Hunkered down within the Hurricane Irene pandemonium, the exuberance of local weatherpeople becomes kind of numbing. I am just going to talk about peanut butter for a little bit because Irene catch phrases are starting to bother me. With a jar of Peanut Butter & Co.‘s White Chocolate Wonderful purchased as Read more…


¬ ¬ Vegan Scooter Pies (a.k.a. Vegan Moon Pies)

I’ve made scrumptious strawberry shortcakes, heavenly black and white cookies, the vegan-elusive rainbow cookie, delectable Milano cookies, huge and fatty cinnamon buns, savory Red Lobster cheese and garlic biscuits, sweet bread, even cashew-cream-based vegan cannoli… all-vegan versions of the tempting treats I grew up craving. Treats I once had given Read more…


sweet things

I made two batches of roll-out cookies to load in my gun. Here is said gun with its array of cookie press designs. For my first time, I headed over to my nieces’ After whipping up the dough and combining to form a marble design. Niece Ashley looks at the Read more…


Cookie Monster

I get sweet cravings on a daily basis. I need to balance my taste buds–two savory bite begets a need for one sweet bite. So as to not badger or settle for a less-than wholesome sweet fix, I whipped up a double-batch of chocolate chip cookies. This recipe is simple Read more…