Just in time to help satisfy your holiday sweet tooth, one of our favorite sources for all kinds of vegan treats, Allison's Gourmet, is holding its first-ever "Gourmet Benefit for Animals."
During the entire month of November, this award-winning bakery and PETA Business Friend will donate 10 percent from every sale to PETA …
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I took up baking about a year ago because I love cookies and wanted to learn how to make my own. Luckily for me, cookbooks featuring vegan cookies and desserts are plentiful these days. I can't imagine learning to bake as a vegan 10 or 15 years ago, when vegan baking was practically unheard …
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Just in time for this baking-binge and gift-gorging holiday season, there are three new and noteworthy vegan dessert cookbooks available. How compassionately sweet it is, indeed!
First up is Vegan Pie in the Sky: 75 Out-of-This-World Recipes for Pies, Tarts, Cobblers, and More by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. This is the same dynamic duo who gave …
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It's a cookie! It's a candy! It's delicious! These easy-to-make, no-bake vegan treats are always a crowd- pleaser and they're perfect for a picnic or a potluck. Best of all, no-bake means no sweating over a hot oven in the summer—and saving on energy consumption as well.
The recipe is adapted from the Tiger Balls recipe …
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It's that time of year again already: time for Girl Scout cookies! The requests for you to buy the cookies come from family members, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. The Girl Scouts are an inclusive organization and worthy of our support (unlike some …
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Double your vegan baking pleasure with two new vegan cookbooks-just in time for the traditional holiday blizzard of baking!
First up is Vegan Baking Classics: Delicious, Easy-to-Make Traditional Favorites by Kelly Rudnicki. This 160-page paperback includes nearly 100 recipes (many with photos) as well as a section on vegan baking tips and advice.
Rudnicki, a mother of five small children, lives in …
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