Vegan Raspberry Ghost Pepper Caramel Corn
They are coming out with ghost pepper everything lately. Well, mostly savory items, I haven’t seen any commercial ghost pepper desserts, just things like chips, hot sauces, BBQ sauce etc. I was gifted a Trader Joes Ghost Pepper Grinder recently and I love it! Eric had one last year, and I would use his all the […]
Vegan Strawberry Jalapeno Gelato
Although I have my favorite ice cream flavors that I make again and again, I will never tire of coming up with new ones. I have over 100 ice cream recipes on my blog already but why stop there? Keeps it interesting for me at least. Once you get your own ice cream maker, it […]
Chocolate Dipped Key Lime Pie Stuffed Strawberries
Key lime pie has always been one of my favorite Summer desserts. It has to be the good kind though, plenty of tart lime and not too sweet. When I was little, my Mom and I found the perfect recipe for it that was the perfect balance, and it always tasted amazing. Especially on a […]
Vegan Strawberry Lemon Cheesecake Popsicles
It feels like Summer here, so I am craving popsicles. When I was little, they were an essential item that we always had to have around in the freezer. The plain fruit sweetened ones were my favorite, especially the raspberry or strawberry. I wasn’t as big of a fan of the fake ones that were […]
Mini Vegan Nutella Mousse Tarts
When I was little, I loved Nutella. I loved having Nutella toast, it was like having dessert for breakfast. After all, the real Nutella has sugar as the main ingredient and is super sweet. My 10 year old self loved that. When I visited Europe in high school, I ate Nutella on baguettes almost every […]
Vegan Chocolate Drizzled Tahini Cookies
You may think of tahini as something that you add to hummus, or make dressing out of. But did you know it is really good in desserts too? I am not just talking about halva (a tahini candy popular in the Middle East). I mean adding it to actual desserts for richness in place of […]
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie
I am one of those types of people that would make a batch of cookies just to eat the dough and not actually bake it. Because the dough is my favorite part! Usually when I make cookies, I do eat more dough than the baked cookies (I share them), just because there is just something […]
Salted Caramel Dessert Hummus
Chickpeas are a staple in my kitchen. Every week I cook off a huge batch of them, about 10 cups and I use them throughout the week for recipes. I used to cook them and freeze them in portioned out containers, but I always use all of them up within the week now so there […]
Vegan Avocado Brownies
Brownie baking is the perfect activity for your day off. Especially if it has been a particularly stressful, or the weather outside is crappy. I mean, one can not possibly be in a bad mood while baking brownies. The whole process is enjoyable. Eating the last bit of batter leftover in the bowl, taking in […]
Vegan Lemon Sugar Cookies
I have always loved all things lemon. Most likely it is inherited, because my Grandma loved lemon desserts, and my Mom does too. None of that weak artificially lemon stuff either, it had to be real tart lemon, and plenty of it. The fake stuff just isn’t the same. I still feel that way. I […]
Vegan Southwest Shepherd’s Pie Chili
I made my Sweet Potato lasagna the other day, but I have had another sweet potato recipe floating around in my head for a while that I wanted to try out. It is definitely comfort food type weather here, so warming food is needed so badly. I have been wanting to make a sweet potato […]
Mini Vegan Swedish Rice Rings with Raspberry Sauce
When I was little, my Mom used to make one of the most delicious desserts for the Holidays, a Swedish rice ring. No, we are not Swedish, my Mom’s side of the family is German in fact, but she got the recipe from a coworker back in the day and it was a keeper. It […]
Vegan Almond Caramel Bars
Wednesday was hot, hot, hot. Well, in the 90s with high humidity. I know some people love this weather, and it is great for laying around at the pool, but not so much for running in, or working in a hot kitchen all day both of which I had done. From the moment I woke […]
Vegan Key Lime Cheesecake
I can not believe Easter was last weekend! The weeks have been flying by lately, and now it is starting to finally green up outside, so it is fitting I guess. It always feels a little odd when Easter falls in March and it is still cold and brown outside. I see flowers starting to […]
Vegan Strawberries and Cream Pie
I used to love Strawberry Shortcake as a child. I am talking about the girl Strawberry Shortcake, not the dessert. The one that was popular in the 1980s and early 90s when I was little. She had it all as far as I was concerned. She was cute, she lived in a cute little […]
Vegan Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Banana pancakes were one of the first vegan recipes I made back in the day. The Summer I was teaching myself to cook, and I had gotten a bunch of vegetarian and vegan cookbooks from the library to page through. I was a pretty new vegetarian with not much cooking experience but I wanted to […]
Pomegranate Rosemary Kombucha
I used to make kombucha all the time, after Eric got me into it a few years back. I would make all sorts of delicious flavors, depending on what fruit was in season, and it was pretty exciting! But then my kombucha making fell by the wayside when I got busy, and other things took […]
Vegan Dark Chocolate Orange Cake
When I was little, one year I got a chocolate orange in my stocking. If you have had one before, you know what I am talking about, but for those who don’t it is a whole normal sized orange made out of chocolate that you whack on the counter to release the wedges. The type […]
Vegan Matcha Mint Sugar Cookies
My Grandma had this amazing sugar cookie recipe, and I used to like to make it for every Holiday, and just switch up the sugar color on top or frost them with colored buttercream frosting. They were the most melt in your mouth delicious things, not surprising since they had loads of butter, eggs and […]
Vegan Sweet Potato Casserole
Like any mid-western cook, my Grandma would always serve a sweet potato casserole with Thanksgiving. As much as I loved my Grandma’s cooking, it was probably my least favorite thing and I politely would just take a small spoonful. Now, I am sure some sweet potato casseroles are good, and they use real yams, but this […]
Savory Lentil and Wild Rice Stuffed Squash
I have always had a thing for squash. It is the vegetable that I always used to get the most excited about, and when Fall rolled around, I had to have some in my kitchen at all times. There was a point when I ate it almost every day, and my skin turned slightly orange. […]
Moroccan Lentil Stew
I visited my Grandpa last Sunday and came home with about 10 lbs of fresh tomatoes from his garden. What does one do with that many fresh tomatoes besides make sauce? Well, I found lots of uses for them! I love my Grandpa’s Tomatoes, and every year I anxiously await them. It is so nice […]
Vegan Mint Double Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Some people like to lie around in their PJs on their day off, or go see a movie or something, but on my day off I like to go for a run then bake and relax the rest of the day. This time of year with Christmas music in the background and baking a […]
Gluten Free Sugar Free Vegan Marble Cupcakes
Last weekend a reader sent me a message asking me to try and find her diabetic friendly cupcake recipe for her parents 50th wedding anniversary. Since I didn’t have one to share with her at that time, and I am always up for a challenge, I decided to make some! Marble cake is always […]