C'est La Vegan

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

I spend a ton of time baking, and when I bake for myself I like to try new things so it doesn’t just feel like work.  I wanted to make a fun and easy-to-eat dessert to bring to the Bowl, so I searched though all my recipes that I dream about having time to test.  [...]

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 [...]

Just a quick reminder that we’ll be at WorldFest tomorrow, and we won’t be at the Woodland Hills market on Topanga Canyon Boulevard today.  Tomorrow should be a really fun day, so please come check it out!  And be sure to bring your sweet tooth, because we’ll have a ton of stuff there to satisfy [...]

This is a Magic Cookie bar recipe that I’m in the midst of testing to try to get it just right.  I used to know these as Seven Layer Bars and I loved them with butterscotch chips, but I can’t find any non-dairy ones around here.  To be honest, I don’t miss them that much [...]

I recently received an email from Paramount Farms with information about the pistachio recall – “We wanted to let you know that not all pistachios have been affected and that a new site, PistachioRecall.org, the result of a collaboration between the FDA and California growers/processors, is now available. The site lists specific safe pistachio products [...]

These cookies are awesome.  They’re almost like a little brownie bite covered in powdered sugar.  We made a non-vegan version of these at Leda’s, but never ended up doing a vegan version.  I thought it was time to remedy that and added them to my menu.  They’re based on this recipe from good old Martha [...]

A good friend of mine was an associate producer on an independent film called “Mother and Child” that just finished shooting, and she ordered my cookies for their wrap party.  I ended up making over 400 cookies!  It was pretty exhausting, but Ryan and I got to go to the party, and I have to [...]

I made these peanut butter cookies along with the chocolate chips for my friend’s wrap party.  I really love peanut butter.  A lot.  I love it on sandwiches, with apples, sometimes spread on pieces of dark chocolate, sometimes all by itself…  I could go on.  My main peanut butter weakness is Peanut Butter and Co.’s [...]

My mom used to get tubs of Rugelach that we would eat way too much of.  I really missed it, so I was happy to find this recipe in “The Joy of Vegan Baking” by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.  We had some people at the party who are the farthest thing from vegan, and they couldn’t stop [...]

I’m still testing recipes for the new business and I can never leave well enough alone.  We had a great snickerdoodle at Leda’s that was really popular and always tricked non-vegans, but for some reason I feel like I still have to test other recipes to make sure that it really was the one I [...]