Author Archives: Kelly Peloza

Soft Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hello summer and cookie baking.

Rosewater Lemonade and “Quick and Easy Vegan Bake Sale”

I had leftover frosting from the Chocolate Rosewater Lemonade Cupcakes my friend Laurie and I made yesterday, so of course I needed to make something else to employ the rest of the frosting, which turned out to be fluted shortbread rounds with frosting piped on, sandwiched together. Delicate and flavorful. I totally drank the prop …

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Oatmeal Cookies with Blueberries and Dark Chocolate Chunks

This is the basic soft and delicious oatmeal cookie recipe from the book, with the addition of dried blueberries and dark chocolate, chopped up. This cookie is the canvas for many different possibilities for additions, and sweet delicate blueberries are the perfect complement. If you’ve never had the pleasure of trying dried blueberries, I recommend …

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¡Cinco de Mayo! and Amazon product description.

You should totally make some coconut lime Mexican wedding cookies on the fifth of May. I give you the recipe below. Zesty Coconut Lime Wedding Cookies Makes about 2 dozen These cookies are a hybrid of the texture and buttery flavor of Mexican wedding cookies paired with the complementary combination of coconut and lime. Eating …

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Mailing cookies to NYC, Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe, The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life

My editor requested I bake around 100 cookies for a sales conference for the book earlier this week. I, of course, took this as an opportunity to go all out and bake some really fantastic varieties of cookies. I live for 8 hour baking marathons! Hypnosis lollipops. These are the cookies featured on the cover …

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This November: The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur, the book, is hitting the shelves!

I’ve had to keep this on the DL for faaaaaar too long! But now since there’s a cover and it’s ON AMAZON (I just found out less than an hour ago via Melisser!), it finally seems like the right moment to spill! My book, The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur, is coming out this November! Three years …

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Milwaukee’s Vegan Cookies: Riverwest Co-op

Chocolate Chip Cookie from Riverwest Co-op I do volunteer work here, so I actually wrapped up this batch of giant chocolate chip cookies. They’re very crispy around the sides and dense and toothsome in the center. The co-op makes many different cookies on any given day (find a recipe and make it!), but these are …

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Milwaukee’s Vegan Cookies: Beans and Barley, East Side Ovens (again)

Vegan Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies The Milwaukee Vegan Meetup group did lunch today at Beans and Barley, so afterward I shopped around a bit in the grocery section and bakery. This was the only kind of vegan cookie they had today, but it was lovely. I liked that it was soft, chewy, fresh, and chocolatey …

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Milwaukee’s Vegan Cookies: East Side Ovens

I had this idea where I would spend a weekend finding all the vegan cookies in Milwaukee, taste test them all, and make a blog post about the experience. I decided against it for several reasons: 1. That’s a lot of cookies. 2. That’s a lot of cookies. 3. I’d probably eat them all. 4. …

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