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Vegan Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie

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This vegan chocolate bourbon pecan pie is a chocolatey, maple scented pie with toasty pecans & notes of bourbon. Enjoy a slice or two with a scoop of non-dairy vanilla ice cream for an extra special treat!

vegan chocolate bourbon pecan pie with a scoop of ice cream and two slices cut out, one on a plate

If you’ve never made a chocolate bourbon pecan pie you should probably stop everything you’re doing and make this right now. It might just be the most delicious treat to ever exist! It kind of tastes like a warm and gooey giant cookie encased in a crisp and buttery crust. Sounds pretty perfect, right?…

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Easy Vegan Pie Dough

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Making the perfect pie dough is all about the technique, but this easy handmade vegan pie dough is straight forward to follow and makes a super flaky crust!

easy vegan pie dough, pre-baked pie double crusted with a lattice top

I have a confession to make. I have never once bought pie dough. And that’s 1) thanks to my mom and grandmother and 2) because it’s easy to make homemade pie dough and the results are infinitely superior. In my easy vegan pie dough recipe, my goal is to break it down for you in manageable and easy to follow steps….

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Vegan Strawberry Shortcake with Brandy Soaked Strawberries and Vanilla Bean Coconut Whipped Cream

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vegan strawberry shortcake with brandy soaked strawberries and vanilla bean whipped cream topped with a strawberry straight on close up shot. Extra biscuits in background.

I have made the perfect strawberry shortcake. Tall, fluffy, buttery biscuits with to die for flakey layers. Sweet, liquor soaked strawberries. Light and creamy, vanilla bean coconut whip. And did I mention it’s all vegan? Ooooh yeah 😛 !…

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Baked Gnocchi with Arrabbiata and Vegan Mozzarella

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Baked Gnocchi with Arrabbiata and Vegan Mozzarella in Ramekins

I love having gnocchi in the fridge, because it means quick and easy meals are a hop and a skip away. Like sure, usually gnocchi in the fridge means that I’ve put in a little (and I do mean that literally) effort to make it, because 1) homemade gnocchi is easy and tastes better, and 2) I’m very mistrusting* of the monoglycerides and diglycerides found in most store bought versions….

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Vegan Wishing Cookies

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vegan wishing cookies

Earlier this week I talked about baking Christmas cookies with my family and shared a family favorite for candy cane cookies, and the trip down nostalgia lane doesn’t end yet! Today I’m so thrilled to share my personal favorite holiday cookie: wishing cookies. Wishing cookies are another tradition we have my Mom’s Minnesotan childhood to thank for. These cookies, which I believe are also called Swedish ginger cookies, or pepparkakor, are a crisp, well-spiced, lightly molasses flavored cookies. And the tradition goes, take a cookie, make a wish, place it in the palm of your hand, then press in the center of the cookie. If it breaks into 3 pieces, eat the cookie without speaking and your wish is said to come true! The fact (yes, fact*), that you get to eat cookies and have wishes GUARANTEED (yes, guaranteed*) to come true makes these the best cookies to ever exist in the entire history of cookie existence.

*not fact, *not guaranteed

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Vegan Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies

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vegan peppermint candy cane cookies

It’s December and we’ve reached full out cookie-I mean holiday-season. Omar and I got a Christmas tree (our first ever together! Yay for having a house!), and decorated it over the weekend. We put on the Swedish Christmas carols I grew up listening to (though I’m not at all Swedish, my mom grew up in Minnesota, and as a result, a lot of our holiday traditions have Scandinavian influences) and drank spiked mulled cider while placing our woodland themed ornaments around the tree. All these cozy, homey, holiday vibes put me in the mood of baking up some holiday cookies….

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Vegan Curried Eggplant Pizza

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vegan curried eggplant pizza

I’ve been on a bit of an eggplant kick lately. It’s just such a great vegetable (ok, actually it’s a fruit, like all good things in life), that’s perfect in so many applications. It can be used in stir fries, in salads, in tacos. It makes dips, sandwich fillings, casseroles, and even [plant-based] bacon. You find it in a lot of cuisines: Turkish, Japanese, Indian, Thai, French, Chinese, American, Italian, and more! In this recipe I suppose I’m combining a few cuisines by putting Indian curried eggplant on top of Italian pizza alongside Thai birds eye chiles (which are happily substituted for Mexican serrano peppers or jalapeños). There’s a culinary adventure in each bite, and damn it’s good. …

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Easy Overnight Pizza Dough

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easy overnight pizza dough shaped and ready to be refrigerated

There are hundreds (thousands?) of ways to make pizza dough, but this recipe is a favorite of mine. It has just 4 ingredients, and maybe 5 minutes of hands on time. It needs only 1 minute of kneading and can accommodate a relatively flexible schedule. The only real downside to making this recipe (and your own pizza dough in general) is that it’s not great for instant gratification. If you want to make last minute pizza, you can get dough from grocery stores or some pizza shops. But if you want the reward of making your own pizza dough, and you want it to taste as good as the crust from a nice pizza place, you should really try this recipe! It’s a perfect all purpose type pizza dough. It can be stretched thin and bakes up with a pillowy edge (technical term cornicione)….

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