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C’est La Vegan Turns 1!

C’est La Vegan Turns 1!

Today is C’est La Vegan’s first birthday!  Part of me feels the year flew by, while the other part feels like it’s been a really long time since I published that first post.  I’m so grateful to our amazing web designer, Robert of looplava, and also to my husband, Ryan, who spent so many hours [...]

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Chocolate Wacky Cake with Soy Nog Custard Sauce

Chocolate Wacky Cake with Soy Nog Custard Sauce

When I go home to visit family I usually don’t do a lot of baking and cooking, especially since baking has been my full-time job for the last several years.  But on my most recent trip, I wanted to make some cinnamon rolls with my nephews since I can’t ship them home, and I got [...]

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Happy National Cupcake Day!

Happy National Cupcake Day!

I just found out that today is National Cupcake Day, so of course I have to post some cupcakes!  These are a seasonal flavor that C’est La V is offering right now.  It’s a mint chocolate cake topped with a Candy Cane Joe Joe frosting – a match made in holiday heaven!  Hope you get to [...]

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Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pumpkin Cheesecake

After about four different Thanksgiving celebrations stretched over two weeks, I think I can official say that I’m over it.  Although I bet if you give me about a week I’ll probably be ready for more!
On the actual holiday we had about eight friends over, and I ended up serving green bean casserole (and updated [...]

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Chocolate Chip Date Cake

Chocolate Chip Date Cake

Last week in my  Bakin Wrapped Dates post I mentioned a Date Cake that I’d made, and here it is!  When I first passed the date stand at the Farmers Market I had a flash of this cake that my Mom had made when I was little.  I probably remembered it because dates sounded really [...]

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Cherry Almond Loaf

Cherry Almond Loaf

The other day when I was looking for a particular post, I came across this photo in a draft that I had totally forgotten about.  I have no idea how this slipped through the cracks!  I meant to write about it this summer, and just forgot I guess.  Poor loaf.
I made this when Ryan and [...]

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I finally made a Trifle!

I finally made a Trifle!

I’ve been obsessed with trifles for a long time.  For years I would save cake scraps in the freezer (much to Ryan’s annoyance), just waiting for the day when I would use them in this amazing dessert.  But I didn’t have a trifle dish, so that was my excuse.  Then I finally got one, however, [...]

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Apple Cake Bars

Apple Cake Bars

Back at the end of August (was it really that long ago?), I wrote about our trip to Santa Barbara wine country and Ditmar’s Apple Farm.  These are some of the beautiful Gala apples we purchased on the trip.  I meant to write about the apple cake that I made after that trip, but the post [...]

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Strawberry Loaf with White Chocolate Chips

Strawberry Loaf with White Chocolate Chips

I love strawberries, but no matter how many I eat, I always seem to have a bunch left-over in the fridge.  I usually end up dealing with them once half of them are past saving, and I cut the rest up and throw them in the freezer for smoothies.  I know that next time I [...]

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C’est La V at the Hollywood Farmers’ Market!

C’est La V at the Hollywood Farmers’ Market!

UPDATE: We just want to give a big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the market today!  You helped make today a success, and we really appreciate the support.  Hope to see you next week!

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I’m so excited to announce that C’est La V Bakeshop has been accepted into the Hollywood Farmers market!  We’ve [...]

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Tempeh Pate

Tempeh Pate

The next dish that I made for our Hollywood Bowl Picnic was the tempeh pate from the Native Foods Cookbook.  This is one of my favorite recipes, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve made this.  We’ve eaten it in Palm Springs wraps (Ryan’s favorite), I’ve baked it in puff pastry, served it [...]

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NEW WEBSITE & ONLINE STORE!!

NEW WEBSITE & ONLINE STORE!!

We’re so excited to say that after a lot of work, we’re finally ready to launch the new website and online store for C’est La V Bakeshop!  I say “we” did a lot of work, but the bulk of it was done by Ryan and our good friend Robert of LoopLava.  With the new online [...]

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