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Vegan Chocolate Truffles

Samantha — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:22:43 +0000

Time for some sweet confessions on when I was not vegan one afternoon nearly a year ago. It was late March and I had surprised my husband with a long weekend to Cape Cod for his birthday. If you have ever been there, you’ll know that this is not exactly the best time to go [...] Related posts:

Cinnamon Rolls and Chocolate Rolls

Samantha — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:09:06 +0000

A few days ago when I was going through all of my old recipe posts and tagging each with the appropriate ingredients, I soon realized that there was a little bit of a trend going on that I had not really noticed before. I have thought for most of my life that I am not a big one for sweets, but after tagging many of my recipes with the ingredient “sugar”, I realized that I do indeed have a sweet tooth. If anyone has this concept in their minds that a vegan diet is healthy, all they need to do is visit my blog and have a look at the “Browse by Ingredients” list. Sugar, vegan butter, salt... Now that we have that out of the way, let's jump in and take a look at my latest sweet success (which, dear reader, was made as a thank you to my husband for all of his hard work on helping to make this redesign even possible). Related posts:

Vegan Opera Cake

Samantha — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:32:04 +0000

As an average baker, it was a little overwhelming to see The Daring Bakers' latest challenge. As a vegan, it was absolutely frightening. Two words: Opera Cake. Don't know what an Opera Cake is? Well, essentially it is a lot of layers of cake and cream and sugar topped off with a glaze. If you're lucky it will take approximately four hours to construct, and if you're good it will look perfect when cut. And why was this frightening for me as a vegan? Well, aside from the necessary endurance factor, it had around 14 eggs in the original recipe (six of those are egg whites, so if you want to get really technical...). It was pretty clear that this cake depends heavily upon our fine feathered friends. But what is a challenge if it is not challenging?! Related posts:

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Samantha — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:56:49 +0000

Our wedding was unconventional. We didn't want to have the cookie cutter wedding that so many people seem to have these days. Instead, my husband suggested, why don't we do a picnic? That seemed like an interesting idea, and one that eventually caught on. Our wedding was in Central Park near the Bow Bridge. We had everyone sit in a circle on blankets, and after we got settled we had everyone share advice and stories for us. Eventually we expressed how we felt about each other (a.k.a. vows), and then had everyone eat snacks and desserts out of our picnic baskets (really galvanized buckets, but they still looked really nice). Aside from occasional bits of rain, it was nice and it was nice to do something that was more simple and less stressful than a full blown wedding. Related posts: