I have been making pumpkin goodies for the last several months, and guess what?  I am not sick of them yet!  I wait all year for all things pumpkin so I enjoy them all during the fall and winter while I can!  Last week for Thanksgiving I decided to make some Vegan Pumpkin Pie Bars instead of a pumpkin pie because I thought it would be easier to share and store.  And they were! Plus sometimes when you have just eaten a large meal, a bar is the perfect size, or if you have more than one dessert like I did. These bars pack all of the goodness of pumpkin pie, but are a little ..read more

  One of my favorite things to bake on a lazy weekend morning is cinnamon rolls.  I was recently craving them so I decided to whip some up on the weekend!  There is nothing I enjoy more sometimes than an oatmilk latte and a sweet baked treat, and cinnamon rolls are perfect with coffee!  I decided to switch them up a little this time though  and instead of just using cinnamon, make them Vegan Chai Spiced Cinnamon Rolls! There used to be a time when I was intimidated by any sort of yeasted bread such as cinnamon rolls, but once I made some and got the hang of it, it is ..read more

I love making peanut brittle around the holidays.  I remember my Grandparents always had peanut brittle around during Christmas and enjoying it as a kid.  I like to make it now around Christmas, and I plan on doing it this year.  But this Fall I thought some Spiced Pumpkin Seed Brittle would be delicious!  Why not make a seasonal twist on a favorite! It is super easy to make too! Some peanut brittles have a few more ingredients than mine but I find that I don't need all of them.  When I make regular peanut brittle it has only 3 ingredients and comes out just right ev ..read more

We are getting into the final part of fall where the colors are starting to fade and it is getting more chilly.  So I am soaking up every last sunny day before it is completely brown outside and the leaves are gone, enjoying running through the crunchy leaves (one of my favorite parts of fall).  You know what the perfect thing to do after being outside on a chilly day is though?  Baking something delicious in a warm kitchen.  So I decided to bake a cake!  I am not sick of pumpkin yet (I don't think I could ever be) so it was a pumpkin cake.  One of my favorite ca ..read more

I love tahini. I love it in hummus, or for just drizzling on my salads, or eating with a spoon. What I really love it in though, is desserts! It may sound odd using it in a dessert, but halva is a dessert and it is delicious! It has a flavor similar to peanut butter when baked into things, so I love it in things like cookies. I had a jar of black tahini I bought on hand and I was excited to use it in something delicious! It is beautiful, a rich black color and has that classic tahini flavor. Their tahini is silky smooth too, unlike some that are kind of gritty. The first thing that came to mi ..read more

Peanut butter cups are my all time favorite Halloween candy.  Or just favorite candy growing up in general.  Whenever we would get home with our stash of Halloween candy, we would dump it out on the floor and divide it into piles of what we wanted to keep and what we wanted to trade. I would pretty much always trade my non-chocolate candy.  Peanut butter cups of course were always in the keep pile.  I don't think any of my friends ever traded those!  There is just something so crave worthy about the sweet chocolate and salty peanut butter combo that makes me happy.&nb ..read more

We recently went to a local apple orchard on the last warm weekend of the year and brought home loads of apples.  They were all Honeycrisp and Sweet Tango two of my favorites because I feel like they are the perfect balance of tart and sweet.  It doesn't get any fresher than picking them yourself, so these were super flavorful!   After being at the orchard I really wanted to make an apple pie.  Of course looking at all of the apple pies for sale at the orchard did have something to do with that craving for pie!  So I made a Vegan Maple Apple Streusel Pie! I asked Eri ..read more

I have been seeing everyone make all kinds of date bark on my social media so I finally decided to give it a try myself!  The general idea is to lay out dates, layer things on top of them and top it off with melted chocolate.  Sounded pretty dark delicious to me!  A lot of people are making it with peanuts but I decided to go with almonds for mine and made Almond Maple Date Crunch Bark!  I always have almonds in my pantry and make my own almond butter so it was perfect! First, I lined a 9x9 inch pan with parchment and filled it up with dates.  I prefer to buy dates w ..read more

You can feel fall in the air even if it is not technically fall yet.  The overly hot days are gone, replaced with cool mornings and moderate temperatures. I love it though!  This is my favorite time of year and running outside on a cool morning is refreshing!  I have also gotten into baking fall goodies involving things like pumpkin and apples!  Like this Vegan Pumpkin Maple Date Granola I recently made since I had a can of pumpkin open from another recipe.  Eric and I love home made granola! This granola is easy to make, just mix and bake and it happens to be oil fr ..read more

One of my favorite things to eat on weekends when I was little were muffins that my Dad made.  Yes, they happened to come from a box, but there is just something so delicious about fresh baked muffins on a lazy weekend morning!  I loved muffins in general as a kid.  I would eat the bottom first, then the top because it was my favorite part (and still do, because it still is).  I have not made muffins in a really long time but last weekend on a whim I decided to.  I had some ripe peaches on hand and I have never made Vegan Peach Muffins before so I thought why not?! I ..read more