C'est La Vegan

Continuing with my Oscar party dishes, I’ll be making these S’more Bars for the film Amour.  Unlike the Les Mis bread, we’re going full on title pun with this one.  Which means they should probably be S’mour bars for the sake of the party. These are way too easy to make for being as good [...]

Our friends Shawn and Alix hosted their Fourth Annual Halloween Horror Movie Marathon over the weekend, and I made these spooky Witches’ Finger cookies to bring along.  We were both pretty beat (Ryan spent the entire day painting the nursery, and I’m just generally beat these days), but we were able to stay for one [...]

  UPDATE: Thanks so much to everyone who entered the give-away.  The winner is Amy, who said: yum! i haven’t had white chocolate macadamia nut cookies since i’ve been vegan, but they used to be one of my favorites! for vegan cookies i have tried, simple chocolate chip with a hint of salt is my [...]

I found the recipe for these cookies on Hannah Kaminsky’s BitterSweet Blog.  It caught my eye because I love chocolate chip cookies, and I’m a huge fan of malt flavor.  I was so excited to try them out! I made these for some friends who were coming over to hang out for the evening, and [...]

UPDATE: This past Saturday was the big day!  I wanted to share some pictures from my cooking class taken by the lovely Jackie of Alternative Outfitters.  I also have to thank Tera (of the beautiful elgin eco house blog) for being kind enough to open her amazing kitchen to us!  It’s an absolutely stunning space, [...]

I found the recipe for these Earl Grey Tea Cookies back in 2009, and I came across it again over the weekend while trying to figure out what I wanted to make for my book club meeting.  They seemed like the perfect treat – especially since the book that we read was by a British [...]

In honor of the holiday I wanted to post these heart-shaped linzer sandwich cookies that I made for the Animal Acres Valentine’s Bake Sale yesterday.  I’ve been wanting to test this recipe out for a while now, and the bake sale gave me the perfect excuse to try them out. These were really tasty – [...]

I had my eye on a recipe for Chocolate-Peppermint Slices (from this book that my Mom gave me many years ago), and with Valentine’s Day right around the corner I thought I might make a Chocolate-Cherry version for the holiday. It was my first time making this kind of cookie, and even thought it takes [...]

I was recently contacted by Earth Balance to submit a recipe to their new “made just right” website (I mentioned their recipe contest in a recent post).  I wanted to do something that felt festive for the holiday season, and these Mega Chocolate Mint Cookies seemed to fit the bill. These cookies are super chocolaty, [...]

UPDATE: Just wanted to do a quick update and thank everyone who came out to the Super Pet Adoption yesterday.  It was a great day, and the location and weather were both fantastic!  This is a shot Ryan took as we were packing everything up. It was such a gorgeous sunset and the perfect conclusion [...]

When I think of desserts for Valentine’s Day, what comes to mind more often that not are over-the-top-decadent chocolate concoctions.  And while I’m all for that (who isn’t?), I wanted to craft a unique meal that ends with something more unexpected.  And let’s face it, there ain’t gonna be no “romance” on Valentine’s night if [...]

Before going vegan, magic cookie bars (or 7-layer bars, or dream bars or whatever you called them where you were from) were one of my favorite treats.  Looking back, I realize I never actually baked them when I was younger, and I did a lot of baking.  Maybe they were even more special because I [...]

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 [...]