Sometimes I think about what my favourite form of dessert is. Is it cookies? I love cookies that are soft, chewy and full of vanilla and chocolate flavour. I love a good cake, but cake is so hard to perfect. So many people get the ratio of sweetness to bitter chocolate flavour wrong. Or the ratio […]
Dessert
Vegan Pecan Butter Tarts
You heard me. Raisins don’t belong anywhere near a butter tart. Either give them to me plain, or give them to me loaded with pecans, but raisins are mushy, sad, hidden jerks that lurk at the bottom of your butter tart and hit you when you least expect it. But first, rewind. Have you ever […]
Vegan Pecan Pie
I’m actually really terrible at baking anything other than cookies and cake. Pies, breads, pastries…or anything that I need to knead or roll, I’m just terrible at it. I know it just takes practice, but I can never get the perfectly even and beautifully crimped pie crusts. Or that perfect, super flaky and melt-in-your-mouth pie […]
California Cling Peach Hand Pies
This post is sponsored by California Cling Peaches,which is actually where Canada gets most of their canned peaches!Thank you for reading and supporting my corner of the internet =) I’m a sucker for anything peach-filled and anything wrapped in flaky pastry. It’s actually a little sad how much I love eating these things. The other […]
Grapefruit Sorbet
If I had to choose between creamy vanilla ice cream or a sweet and tart sorbet, I almost always choose the sorbet. I guess when you’re vegan, the sorbet is often more available to you anyway. That doesn’t mean I don’t love a good soy chocolate ice cream every now and then, but I just […]
Vegan Black Bean Brownies
There are only a select few of my friends who feel the same way about food as I do. There’s something lusciously enticing about a drizzle of chocolate or the intoxicating smell of baked goods in my kitchen. I understand people who don’t empathize with my obsession with measuring spoons and cups, but what I […]