Coconut Ice Cream Float

One of my co-workers was selling vegan coconut floats as a fundraiser for charity and I bought one…well out of charity. It didn’t look very appetizing at first since it looked like a scoop of ice cream in water but …

Chocolate Cupcakes with Vegan Bailey’s Icing

Yum! I’ve wanted to make my friend Lynn’s recipe for vegan Bailey’s for a while now and I needed to make some cupcakes for a work fundraiser and was hit with inspiration to finally use it. If you’re going to …

Rhubarb Coconut Pie

It was a weekend filled with AMAZING food! After Rich successfully ran the beer mile with his friend Ryan (successfully meaning they kept the beer down) we headed over to their place for dinner. I was blown away by all …

Gluten Free Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

I have a confession to make. It’s embarrassing, taboo, and rarely addressed…. sometimes my cupcakes fall in the middle. I dream of those perfectly round cupcake tops but it rarely happens like that in reality. Most of the time I cover …

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

The other night I was complaining to Rich that I had had a long day and we didn’t have any wine. He then told me that he had a secret;  he had added a bottle of wine to our emergency …

Chocolate Truffle Mousse: Virtual Potluck Dessert!

(This post is part of the Virtual Vegan Potluck menu-scroll down to the bottom to find out what that means!) I was super excited to be added to the Virtual Potluck and then panicked a little because I had no …

Cocoa-Oat Truffles

I was beginning to worry that my chocolate dipped strawberries weren’t going to be enough for my big family dinner this Sunday.  So I went onto the Whole Foods Market website for a simple dessert recipe (can you guess where …

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

After a memorial walk for my Uncle Gary I’ll be heading over to my dad’s side of the family for a big vegan dinner this Sunday that my cousin and I are preparing. (stay tuned for a future post on …

Golden Vanilla Cupcakes

I feel that it’s bad luck and also bad manners to show up at someone’s house empty handed (unless it’s family…) so when my friend Lauren invited me over I offered to bring some wine. Unfortunately I was left scrambling …

Criminally Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

The Canucks are in the playoffs and the first game is tonight. This means there will be a lot of get together’s in the next few weeks (hopefully months) and I’ll probably be putting on 5-10 pounds as the Canucks …