Day 11: Sugar Cookies The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies Another classic holiday cookie is the sugar cookie. Not overly sweet, and delicate they’re a staple on my holiday cookie platter. I’ve made these a bunch of different ways, including rolling and cutting into shapes with holiday cookie cutters. My favorite though is rolling…
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Chocolate Orange Crinkles
Day 10: Chocolate Orange Crinkles The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies You’ve no doubt had chocolate crinkles before. Every Christmas they make their way onto cookie platters. They’re so cute and festive with their snowy crusts. If you’re never had them, the best way to describe them would be a combination of chocolate cookie,…
Rugelach
Day 9: Rugelach The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies If you’ve never had rugelach, they’re a Jewish cookies/pastry; rolled into a croissant shape and stuffed with jam, nuts and raisins. Typically made with apricot jam, however you can really use any jam you’d like. Personally, I like to use peach jam that I make…
Caramel Swirl Pecan Brownies
A quick and easy brownie recipe, and pretty versatile to be honest. Having invited my parents over for dinner a couple weeks ago, I was looking for something simple to serve for dessert. Cakes and cupcakes seemed too fussy for the mood I was in.
Pumpkin Cake with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting and Candied Pecans
It’s hard to resist pumpkin desserts this time of year. Starting off with Canadian Thanksgiving, followed by Halloween, and American Thanksgiving pumpkin and pumpkin spice goods are everywhere. When looking for a dessert to bring to a dinner party, the temptation to make something pumpkin-y was overwhelming. I caved and surrendered myself to the cliché…
Easy Peasy Carrot Cake
Although a cake with cream cheese frosting seems appropriate all year round, carrot cake, with its warm spices seems all the more appropriate as the cooler weather arrives. Most carrot cakes I’ve come across have thick layers of dense, and sometimes dry cake, with a thin almost nonexistent layer of frosting in between them. Not…
Healthy & Delicious Chocolate Chip Pecan Blondes
I made these blondes for a dessert to bring to my parents last weekend. I was worried these would be an epic fail as I threw them together on the spot, but they turned out great! They’re moist, dense, and slightly sweet with a wonderfully nutty flavor. Oh, did I mention these are gluten-free, oil-free,…
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While these may be chocolate chip cookies, they are the furthest thing from the cookies found on every commercial grocery store’s shelves.