Category Archives: Peppermint

Holiday baking!

December was quite a busy month and I didn’t get to bake as much as I would have liked, but I did make some satisfying seasonal treats! Winter 2011 brought so many different options of nog from Earth Balance, So Delicious, Silk, Rice Dream, and Vitasoy, so it was no surprise that nog taste challenges …

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Candy Canes, Horchata, + seeyounextweek, San Francisco!

True cookie fans don’t stop baking when the holidays are over! Not even in the summer when it’s sweltering hot and turning on the oven may cause you to melt from the heat. Endure! Well, to cap off the craziness of the holiday season, I used up the last of my candy canes in a …

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Chicago VeganMania 2010!

I had the pleasure to not only attend, but give a baking demo, at Chicago VeganMania 2010 this year! The whole week before, Vegan Week: The Ultimate (which I made a huge blog post about on Seitan Beats Your Meat, here), was leading up to this giant vegan party! Estimated number of cookies baked during …

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Gourmet Vegan Cookie Assortment Package: $18, order by July 27th!

Hey everyone! I have some exciting news! Has the scorching heat this summer left you put off by the idea of turning on the oven to bake up some delicious treats? Never fear! I’ve decided to start doing a “mail order cookies” type deal here from time to time, directly from the blog for the …

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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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Christmas Cookies, complete with a video demo of how to smash candy canes

I made three types of cookies this year for Christmas (the actual holiday, not including the sugar cookies from a few weeks ago). I made a huuge batch of chocolate peppermint cream bars (the recipe can be found here). They are a definite holiday crowd pleaser. I began making Crunchy Toffee from my zine, Vegan …

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It’s been a while… [recipe]

I’ve neglected the cookie blog for way too long and I apologize! I’ve been really busy with lots of recipe making (which will be done in less than a month, by the way). The next step after that will be finding a publisher and creating this book! It’s all quite overwhelming, so if anyone has …

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Classy: Thin Mints and Tiramisu Cookies

Just like the Girl Scout cookies! Tiramisu/White Russian Cookies

Catch-up!

I’ve been really busy/sick lately, but managed to come up with a few recipes in the past week or so. Here’s to catching up with the blog! Peanut Kiss Cookies Classic! I use a kiss mold I found at a thrift store in a hershey kiss making kit. The rest of the equipment was useless, …

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Thanksgiving Cookies!

So I did not go all out this Thanksgiving. I made a couple of batches of cookies to bring to my grandma’s and that was that. I made the Autumn Clouds Pumpkin Cookies (not pictured) and Candy Cane Oreos! The oreos were enough work and I was exhausted. The day after Thanksgiving was a ton …

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