Vegan Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
I can not believe how beautiful it has been here lately! It was 60F degrees yesterday, and normally it is 40. I will take it, the snow will fly here soon enough! It is Minnesota after all. So, I took full advantage yesterday, a nice 10 mile run to enjoy the beautiful morning and rising […]
Vegan Pumpkin Doughnuts with Maple glaze
When I was little, my Mom and I used to go to a local bakery and get doughnuts every once in a while. My favorite were these ones with maple glaze. They were sooo good! I haven’t had one since I was probably 10 years old, but I still remember exactly how they tasted, and […]
Vegan Caramel Pecan Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
One time, back when I was in high school, I had to bring a dessert to a cross country banquet to share, and my Mom decided to make brownies. Now mind you, we did not make them from scratch, we bought the mixes at the store, and at that point in my life I could […]
Vegan Caramel Apple Galette
The weather has been just glorious here lately! I am loving these cooler crisp fall mornings and warmer sunny afternoons. To be honest I wish it could be like this year round. 40-50F degrees in the morning and 60-70F degrees in the afternoon is awesome! Sunday was just like that. It was nice and cool […]
Vegan Apple Cinnamon Cobbler with Almond Biscuits
I can not believe October is here already! But I love it. I have to say, this is my favorite time of the year! I was lucky enough to have this past Saturday off of work to run a 5k, and the weather was perfect. A little chill in the air, the leaves were just […]
Vegan Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Sometimes you have a good week where everything goes right, and sometimes you don’t. What matters is how you deal with it, and whether it makes you a better person, or a worse person. Well, I had one of those not so good weeks, you know where nothing goes the way you planned it, things […]
Vegan Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies
I caved. I jumped on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. What can I say? Fall is in the air and I am in the mood for pumpkin and apples. My first baked good, pumpkin cookies. We make pumpkin cookies at my work, and they are always very popular this time of the year. They smell amazing […]
Giant Vegan Oven Pancake with Sauteed Pluots
Sometimes you just want pancakes, but don’t want to slave over a hot stove flipping them. If that is you, read on. It is definitely me, because I have other stuff to do sometimes! When I was younger my Mom would make oven pancakes in a pie dish or skillet and they were always delicious. […]
Vegan Hazelnut Crusted Apple Pie
I ran my second race of the season Friday, and it was a bit challenging, but I like a challenge. The course was not fast and flat like the previous one I had done, and I had gone into this thinking I was going to break my time from a few weeks back because I […]
Vegan Apple Spice Oatmeal Cookies
Local apple season is now here! I am excited about visiting the apple orchards, walking the rows of trees, and getting some of my favorite varieties. I haven’t gotten a chance to do that yet, but I was able to pick up some Honey Crisp apples, my favorite kind at the store I work in. They […]
Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Fudge Frosting
One time I found out Eric threw out some over ripe bananas. “What were you thinking?!” I asked. “You should have given them to me!” I said. I mean, he knows I freeze them for smoothies, and can make some bomb vegan desserts with them (which I always share with him). Not just banana bread, […]
Vegan Blueberry Cream Cheese Galettes
I hope you all had a good weekend, I certainly did! Usually every year I go to the Minnesota State Fair, but Eric and I are both not wishing to spend a lot of money lately and it ends up costing a lot, so we decided to go on another fun outing instead. What […]
Vegan Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
I am sure a lot of you might think I am crazy when I say this, but growing up, Oreos were never my favorite cookies. Even as a kid, I could tell that they were not like my Grandma’s delicious home made cookies. Something tasted off about them. I now know it is because there […]
Vegan Maple Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
One of my favorite places to be as a child was in my Grandma’s kitchen. She was always making something delicious no matter what time of the day, and she often baked things. Like chocolate chip cookies. She must have baked hundreds of batches of them. She always had them on hand to give away […]
Vegan Blueberry Maple Cobbler with Pecan Biscuits
When I was younger I used to go to the library every week and check out cookbooks. I would sit with a big old pile of them and page through them looking for new recipes to try. This is how I taught myself to cook in fact! One Summer in college, I would make 1 […]
Vegan Chipotle Peach Cobbler with Pecan Biscuits
When I see a recipe that looks amazing on TV or Facebook or wherever I happen to be, I say to myself, I need to veganize that. I saw someone making peach cobbler a few weeks back on a cooking show, and it wasn’t vegan at all but I said to myself, I need to […]
Vegan Coconut Caramel Cake
My Mom gave me a bag of shredded coconut and asked me to make something delicious with it. I made some macaroons, but I also made the most glorious cake. To begin with, when the idea of making a coconut cake came to mind, I was going to go for a classic coconut layer cake. […]
Individual Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler with Almond Biscuits
A lot of times when I go out running, I admire the gardens in people’s yards as I run past wishing they were mine, and I was able to grow all of the good stuff they are. I live in a townhome, so all I am allowed is small pots. I grow herbs, but that […]
Vegan Almond Joy Mini Bundt Cakes
Since it is Mother’s Day, I thought I would post a recipe that I made for my own Mother. But first, I want to thank my Mom for being the wonderful Mom that she is. I have always been close to my Mom, we did everything together when I was younger which was easy because […]
Mini Vegan Samoa Cupcakes
I was having a day last Friday. By “a day” I mean one of those days. I felt like I could not focus, my brain was not functioning properly and I felt like I was really kind of stressed, and in hyper mode like I had drank too much coffee when I did not have […]
Vegan Almond Joy Scones
At the deli where I work, we have almond joy scones. Buttery, flaky scones with toasted coconut and almonds. There is not any chocolate on them however, which always baffles me because I think there should be since they are almond joy, named after the popular candy bar. Anyways, these scones are not vegan or […]
Vegan Firecracker Apple Pie
One of my coworkers said to me a few days back “I don’t know how you have the energy to do all that baking you do.” The truth is though, baking is relaxing to me. The main things that really relax me are running (well more afterwards after I have gotten out all my frustrations […]
Vegan Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Brownies
Mondays are my day off. So, besides sleeping in I like to bake things! I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make last Monday, and I decided on brownies. I know I have made many forms of brownies to share with you all, but they just sounded so good I couldn’t resist. […]
Vegan Peach and Blackberry Cobbler with Pecan Biscuits
Eric calls me kitty because he thinks I act like a cat. Including hating getting wet. I am not much of a swimmer and I can’t stand getting rained on and wearing soaked clothes. So, I surprised myself last week and actually enjoyed getting rained on while running. It was not raining when I started, […]
Simple Vegan Vanilla Bean Cake
When Singing Dog Vanilla contacted me and asked if I would like to try their product, I was like heck yeah! I use vanilla in almost every dessert I make, and it is one of my favorite flavors. If I were asked to choose between chocolate and vanilla it would always be vanilla. So, I […]
Vegan Blueberry Pluot Galette with Hazelnut Oat Crust
I was really craving some blueberry pie last week. But I had two problems. First, not enough blueberries to make a whole pie, and second, not enough time to make a pie. Because all that rolling and chilling and shaping, then waiting an hour for it to bake…yeah I did not have time. But I got […]
Vegan Fluffernutter Sandwich Cookies
Ever since I discovered vegan marshmallow fluff made with aquafaba, I have wanted to make something fluffernutter. Mostly because I have never actually had anything fluffernutter…and it is a fun word to say, and the combination sounds delicious to someone craving salty and sweet. Also, I have had really good luck with my marshmallow fluff, […]
Vegan Chocolate Dipped Hazelnut Butter Cookies with Raspberries and a Giveaway!
Windy City Organics was kind enough to send me some Dastony Nut Butters to create recipes with, and I could not have been more excited. In case you haven’t noticed before I am in love with all things nut butter. I have at least 6 types in my pantry at all times. One of the nut […]
Vegan Double Berry Rhubarb Galette
I have been really craving pie lately. A delicious fruit pie with a jammy filling, crisp rich crust, and sweet fruit inside. I’m not very picky when it comes to the fruit. It is all good…peaches, cherries, berries. They all are amazing in a pie in my opinion. So, I made a sort of pie […]
Vegan Mississippi Mud Cookies
I was watching one of my coworkers drizzling chocolate over the freshly baked cookies at work and I decided that I had to make something with chocolate when I got home. Chocolate cookies. Because that was what I was suddenly craving after smelling that chocolate. I didn’t want to make something I had made before, […]
Vegan Double Berry Lemon Doughnuts
Ever since I made my German Chocolate Doughnuts last week with my new pan, I have been wanting to make more doughnuts. Something about the idea of baking healthier doughnuts is pretty amazing in my mind. I guess because I have never had a doughnut pan before. So anyways, I got these beautiful berries on sale […]
Vegan German Chocolate Doughnuts
I never turned down a doughnut when I was younger. I mean come on…who doesn’t think they are delicious?! But when I started to eat healthier as I got older I didn’t enjoy any knowing what is in most of the commercially made ones. I didn’t really miss them or crave them, but I have […]