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…
Gluten-Free Banana Bread
Banana bread is one of those basic recipes everyone should have in their arsenal. It should be considered part of the basics, right up there with boiling water and cooking rice. Ironically I couldn’t cook a pot of rice if life depended on it… thank god for the rice cooker… But back to banana bread!…
Healthy Brownies
Healthy Brownies. Yes that’s a thing, and no they aren’t gross. I think everyone has seen the meme for vegan healthy brownies that look like blocks of grass. I promise these are nothing like that. They’re fudge-y, dense, and super chocolatey. Vegan, gluten-free, and refined sugar-free. Remove the walnuts and they’re also nut-free in case…
Gluten-Free Fudge Brownies
Every once and a while I get the urge to play with gluten-free recipes. I don’t actually have any major issues with gluten, but I’ve found that when I over indulge my body makes sure to let me know. Generally speaking most of the foods I eat throughout the day are naturally gluten-free, but when…
Rocky Road Cookies
The past week or so I’ve been pumping cookies out of my kitchen at an impressive rate. Mostly an effort to try to get ahead of the Christmas baking while juggling a few other things… Christmas shopping, Christmas decorating, baking, wrapping, cleaning, organizing… not sure how I managed get myself into this mess, but there…
Sweet Potato Walnut Cinnamon Rolls
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends and family. I love the fall and Thanksgiving, the cool fresh air, the changing of the leaves. Its heaven for a baker in a house with no AC. It means I can finally have the oven on without turning the house into a furnace. A midst the planning…
Grown-Up Brownies
Going through the fridge over the past few weekends I noticed quite a few bottles of open red wine. I know leftover wine might be a foreign concept to some people I know (I won’t name names). Not being a big drinker myself, it’s not uncommon to have leftover wine in the fridge after dinner…
Maple Walnut Waffles
Pancakes are perhaps the most requested breakfast/brunch dish in our house, however, waffles are a close second. The receipt of a new waffle iron this past Christmas has caused them to have many repeat performances over the past few months. While I like the simplicity of my old stove-top waffle maker, the convenience of an…
