November 20, 2023
Worrying I hadn’t utilized the pumpkin purรฉe enough, I made a unique soft, cake-like babka by making some substitutions to this recipe. First, I used all-purpose flour instead of bread flour, resulting in less gluten in the dough. I also used coconut oil instead of vegan block butter because I Read more…
October 28, 2023
You looking at me? I made some Halloween treats for a party… which means the eyeballs came out of the pantry once again. So let me talk about candy eyeballs for a bit. In the past, every time I looked at a package of candy eyeballs I saw that they Read more…
October 17, 2023
Since we have deep fryer capabilities, I thought I’d whip up a deep-fried recipe for my next apple endeavor. Using Make It Dairy Free’s recipe, I prepped an easy dough then waited for the oil to come to temperature. Once the oil was ready, the greasy fun began! Ah, glistening Read more…
October 10, 2023
Now back to apples! This recipe was the reason I wanted to make apple butter… Cinnamon buns made with apple butter both in the dough and the filling. After a huge mess up with the recipe the day before, day two I was back for the attack. [If you must Read more…
September 29, 2023
For my second usage of our haul of apples, a shockingly easy vegan apple strudel! The recipe from Connoisseurus Veg utilizes store-bought puff pastry dough and a delicious filling mixture of apples, sugar, raisins, pecans, rum, cinnamon, vanilla and lemon juice. I sliced them thin on the mandoline, though you Read more…
November 26, 2022
This recipe from Domestic Gothess is really great. It will be my new go-to! Just watch it all unfold below. Firstly, I don’t have instant yeast on hand… because I have a huge thing of active dry yeast I have been using since the “lockdowns.” So I have to activate Read more…
October 16, 2022
Ah, baking with pumpkin is a major highlight of autumn. Because all my pumpkins are still being used for decorative purposes, I bought a can of puree… because I just can’t wait! So to follow is many pictures of this first pumpkin baking endeavor of the season. Using Rainbow Nourishments‘ Read more…
February 12, 2021
This is it! The last of my Vegan Victuals Valentine Inspirations. These cinnamon roll hearts capture the uniqueness of every heart–its complex chambers, its vault of secrets, its oddity. Using this recipe, you can shape your own dough hearts to your exact standards. The first time I’ve used my pizza Read more…
May 20, 2019
Wanting to level-up my dough skills, I bought a 4 ounce jar of active dry yeast. To start my mission, cinnamon buns. I used Chocolate Covered Kate’s recipe as my inspiration. Yeast getting its feeding on. The dough before it rose (left). And after (right). It was a beautiful, buoyant Read more…
July 31, 2016
After updating this site’s F.A.Q., I decided I needed to veganize Combos, since no one else had. Much like meat ravioli, this is an untapped market in the vegan world. Usingย a recipe for hard pretzels and a non-vegan homemade vegan attemptย from the world wide web ( here and here ), Read more…
February 17, 2013
I’ve never had Monkey Bread before. But I’ve made dough. So surely I was able to take the dough and drench it in Earth Balance, sugar and cinnamon. Using this recipe from Yes, Iย Want Cake, it was fool-proof and deceivingly easy! Cutting the dough into little chunks, immersing each in Read more…
August 23, 2010
On sunny Sunday, August 1, 2010, I found inspiration in the pages of The Electrician‘s omnivorous cook books as he manually labored in his yard. A proper vegan bunch! Complete with the works: traditional brunch staples, both sweet and savory, served on vintage China and vividly colored fabric with tasty Read more…
June 20, 2010
My family gets to try a lot of my goodies. I bet my this fact doesn’t excite them half as much as it excites me to have an opportunity to bake! For Father’s Day I knew I needed to switch up my usual offering of cupcakes to account for the Read more…
