I always loved cinnamon bread growing up, especially for toast!  It was amazing with some butter on it for a breakfast treat!  I preferred the plain cinnamon, not the cinnamon raisin because I am not a big raisin fan.  But I was thinking recently, you know what would make cinnamon raisin swirl bread better?  If you replaced the raisins with dates and made Vegan Date Cinnamon Swirl Bread!  So I decided to make some and try it out, and it ended up being a wonderful idea! I love baking bread, it is so relaxing kneading the dough!  I haven't made much sandwich ..read more

One of my favorite things to do with a bunch of leftover bread is french toast casserole!  I will often times put bread in the freezer if we don't eat it all in a couple days because I don't want it to get stale.  But sometimes I forget it is in there.  I had a bunch of sourdough bread in my freezer I had bought from a couple times when we had soup, and I decided it would make a wonderful Vegan Blueberry French Toast Casserole!  At first I was just going to make a plain french toast casserole, but I remembered I had some blueberry jam on hand so I thought I would make it b ..read more

Oats are something that I love so much I have eaten them nearly every day for the past 20 years of my life.  I have a bowl of oatmeal in the morning, I never get sick of it and it is one of my favorite things.  It has shifted from cooked to overnight oats, but I love them both.  I also love oatmeal cookies!  Why not have all of the fiber of oats in a delicious cookie!  I hadn't made any for a while, so I thought I would make some last week!  I used to make oatmeal cookies all the time before I switched jobs last year (I don't bake at my current job) and I was jus ..read more

Eric and I were recently at a candy store, and although some of the items there were vegan, the one thing that I actually wanted to buy was not, a peanut butter and jelly dark chocolate candy bar.  I am always more of a chocolate candy person than just a sugar sweet candy person, so that is why it was what I was drawn to.  I decided then and there, you know what?  I can make something like this at home.  I have dark chocolate on hand after all since it is an essential item!  So I decided to make my own candy bars, and perfect timing since it is almost Valentine's Day ..read more

Eric and I have bought a lot of mochi, my favorite flavors so far were the red bean filled and matcha.  But there was also a delicious ube mochi that was pretty bomb.  You have to read ingredients of course, because some are not vegan (especially a lot of the ice cream ones, but this post is about the non ice cream) but surprisingly a lot of the packages I checked are vegan! There really is nothing like mochi, it has a unique texture, chewy and pillowy at the same time, and not too sweet, but just sweet enough!   I have been wanting to try making my own for a long time, because ..read more

I think I lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch for a while when I was little.  I didn't really like other types of sandwiches at that point (I hated everything with lunch meat, makes sense that I am vegan now) and they were just so darn delicious!  My Mom always bought raspberry jam the chunky kind with the seeds and my Dad would always buy strawberry.  But when I went over to other people's houses and had grape that was a real treat!  I just loved peanut butter and jelly!  So much so that when they came out with that goober grape jam and jelly all in ..read more

Halva is something I make every so often when I am craving candy or something sweet. I first enjoyed some at a place local to me that makes it in all kinds of amazing flavors, then decided to try making my own, because I wanted to make fun flavors too!  Sometimes I make it with different types of nut and seed butters besides tahini, which changes the texture a little (they are all good, just different).  But this time I went with the classic tahini!  I love halva paired with a cup of coffee, so I decided to make a Coffee Chocolate Halva! Halva really isn't that difficult to ma ..read more

I had bought a purple yam and cooked it, not knowing what I was going to make with it.  It was pretty delicious, and it was tempting just to eat it, but it was so beautiful I thought it needed to be used in something.  I have seen people use them in recipes before to tint things a lovely purple hue, so I thought why not?!  I decided on cookies, not knowing that they would change color as they baked, and what I ended up with was these Vegan Cookie Monster Cookies!  That is what I am calling them, because Cookie Monster loves chocolate chip cookies and he is blue just like t ..read more

Around the holidays I like to make candy, things like peanut brittle and almond praline brittle are one of my husband Eric's favorites! I made some almond praline brittle last weekend, because I thought it sounded good, then I thought about how good it might be as an element of texture included in a cake!  It is so delicious and flavorful, like crunchy almond vanilla scented caramel.  So I decided to make a Vegan Almond Praline Cake! I already had the almond praline made.  It is really simple, you just melt sugar and add almonds, salt and vanilla and you get the most delicious ..read more

Fudge was always something that my Grandma had at Christmas along with all of the other delicious treats we only got once a year, and so I think of it as a Christmas treat.  It was just classic fudge with walnuts but she loved it and I thought it was pretty delicious!  I don't have the recipe so I am not sure how exactly it was made or what all it had in it, but I am pretty sure she said it was an easy recipe with sweetened condensed milk so when I decided to make vegan fudge for the first time this year, that is what I decided to make it with.  I looked at a bunch of different ..read more