My folks are coming down to Toronto this weekend to spend Canada Day with my brother and me. They are arriving this afternoon, so I thought it would be nice to have something sweet to give them after their long drive! No recipe transcription required: I used Vegan Yum Yum’s recipe to the letter. As [...]
Categories: General
Tagged: cinnamon buns, dessert, vegan
Happy Mother’s Day, all you moms. This one goes out to the best mom: mine! We made this baklava together and it was awesome. Baklava Ingredients 1 pkg phyllo pastry, thawed 2 1/2 cups of shelled pistachios 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tbsp cane sugar 2/3 cup vegan margarine, softened (I left mine on the counter [...]
Categories: Recipes
Tagged: baklava, dessert, filo, mother's day, pastry, phyllo, pistachios, vegan
Sorry for the crickety silence on my end. Flowers aren’t growing yet in Toronto–nothing much is growing yet in Toronto, but I can never resist this time of year. The dead ground and the warm sun reminds me of coming home from elementary school on the bus, and puddles, and recess. I’ve been spending a [...]
Tagged: blackberry icing, Canada, chocolate, cupcakes, dessert, election, politics, Student Vote, toronto, vanilla, vegan, voting
Coffee is a thing in my family. The German half of the family, anyway. Other families have tea time with an assortment of goodies, but the Germans have Coffee. Nobody else in my family is a vegan, so there’s nothing sweet at my parent’s house for me to nibble on at coffee time. Yesterday I [...]
Categories: Recipes
Tagged: betty crocker, date squares, dates, dessert, ginger beer, nostalgia, oats, vegan