C’est La Vegan

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

This is a plum kuchen that I made last summer from Deborah Madison’s “Local Flavors” cookbook.  I had a bunch of pluots from the farmer’s market that were about to go off, and I found this recipe which seemed easy enough to veganize.  I love fruit based desserts, not only because they’re usually so easy, [...]