Maggie Mudd, this delicious ice cream shop in San Francisco, used to make and deliver these amazing vegan ice cream cakes... there was even a glutenfree option, and it was always so delicious, but when I went to order our usual cake in June for my partner's birthday, I found out they've closed up shop! I decided I'd just make my own, but I'd never ( Read more... )

I'd like to make the Peppermint Mocha Trifle from Hannah Kaminsky's Vegan Desserts book, and I'm at a loss for what to do about the whole wheat pastry flour. I have a little bit of *white* pastry flour, but it's hard to come by and expensive, and from my Googling it doesn't seem like an easy substitute for whole wheat pastry flour, anyway. I'm on a ( Read more... )

I got a job baking for a small cafe/video store, and since it isn't incredibly lucrative, I was wondering if some of you could help me lower my baking costs. I went in last Friday with some ~*samples*~ and brought chocolate chip/pecan cookies, the mexican snickerdoodles from VCIYCJ, raspberry/almond muffins ("bakery style muffins" from Vegan Brunch ( Read more... )

It's my almost-veg coworker's last day today, and I'd like to bake her some cupcakes as a goodbye present. As we've bonded over our love of peanut butter in the past, I'm going to make the Peanut Butter Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. Trouble is, they ask for 2 teaspoons of ground flaxseed, which I don't have, and the internet is ( Read more... )

I'd like to make the Orange Agave Cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar this week. I make them all the time (with peppermint extract instead of orange zest) but I've recently moved back near my college and I can't find whole wheat pastry flour in any of the stores around here (Whole Foods included). I know the book has a section on ( Read more... )

Has anyone successfully made any of the non-gluten-free recipes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World using gluten-free flour? There are two gluten-free recipes in the book - will the flour mixes from them work with all of the recipes? Can an all purpose gluten-free flour mix work with them? If you have made these cuppies gf, what kind of flour did ( Read more... )

Hey guys, I've recently found out soy and I don't get along so well in the stomach, intestine, and skin department so I've had to switch to a soy-free diet. Along with all the manageable issues (difficulty finding breads, no more fake meats, etc.) I've had quite a time finding a soy-free margarine (there aren't any around here). I asked my local ( Read more... )

Hey, I hope someone can help. I am making some baked goods for my family for Christmas and my mom wanted Cranberry Walnut Bread but said she didn’t like the orange flavor that is usually in it. While searching, all I could find were recipes with orange so I was going to stick with the recipe in Veganomicon but it calls for 1/4 c orange juice & 1 ( Read more... )

I want to make red velvet cupcakes for Valentine's Day for all my friends (vegan, of course ( Read more... )

I found an awesome looking non-vegan recipe for a green tea cake. It looks like it will be easy enough to veganise- I have egg replacer I can use for the eggs, but I'm concerned about the requirement for yoghurt.

I've never used soy yoghurt and am a bit reluctact to buy a container of it just for the use of baking once - aand... I don't know what ( Read more... )