Occasionally, I’ll use tomato paste as an egg replacer in savory dishes. It’s a great binder for burgers and (obviously) meatloaves. Though, recently this tomato soup recipe has been making a serious comeback. Some say the original is a midcentury…
The beginnings of upside-down cakes are a little older than our retro time frame. Inverted cakes date back hundred of years. In the Americas, they were called skillet cakes, cooked over a fire, and featured prunes, apples, or berries. The…
Skipping ahead a little, this retro Sweet Potato Bake fits into the 70s perfectly with a beautiful array of orange and brown! I was a little daunted to take on this recipe, not because of difficulty in veganizing, but it…
These combine two of my favorite things: Gingerbread and Pumpkin. Those two things have a lot to do with why I love Autumn and Christmas so much. Reminiscent of real gingerBREAD, these cookies are light, fluffy, and chewy. Monkey Man…
I made these a for some friends and were such a hit I just had to share the recipe. Going off the same basic Icebox Cookie dough as my Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies you fill the dough with cinnamon and sugar…
I love these icebox cookies because they remind me of the pillsbury christmas cookies, which you’d get in a roll and slice. Those were some of my childhood favorites, but probably only because of the fun shapes inside. The flavor…
A dessert staple you’ll see at nearly any potluck in Hawaii, Butter Mochi Cake is a fun take on the Japanese pounded rice balls. I should say that you see Mochi Cake at every party though, since every party in…
Based on the classic fruit rolls, cookie, pastry, and mostly healthy little snack—these guys are packed with dried plums. Newtons are the trademarked fig filled cookies. In the BBC’s Call the Midwife they’re described as treacle wrapped in a doormat.…
Tender, moist and a little dense this cakes is a cross between quick bread and pound cake. To be honest I haven’t really had a good pound cake since becoming vegan, so I was very pleasantly surprised with the results.…
You don’t see vegan white chocolate often and to be honest, most commercial white chocolates usually tasted more like wax than candy. I make and sell my own white chocolate candies, some packed with toasted almonds or even caramel! I…