Quick and Easy Vegan Bake Sale, and a Giveaway for the Same!

Have you seen this super-pretty cookbook? If you haven't, you should seek it out. For example,


Made and loved: gingered chocolate chip (here, chunk) cookies.


Made and loved: carrot and pineapple scones.

Made and loved sweet and you will have to imagine it: sticky toffee pudding cake (omg). This is very worth imagining. Also, zebra cake and everything cookies.


Made and loved: savory herbed crackers. Some made with animal cookie cutters. Aren't they cute?

Made and loved savory and you will have to imagine it: savory "cheesy" biscuits (omg), mini sausage rolls (omg), pesto (omg), pea-tarragon-cream cheese tart, sun-dried tomato-olive-sausage pie, savory pinwheels, tomato and herb biscotti.

Want to make: individual baklava, green tea lattice cookies, creamy dreamy lemon mousse pie, spanakopita loaf, asparagus and roasted garlic quiche. I mean, to start.

This cookbook is so user-friendly and lovely. I don't even want to give you a publisher's blurb--I want to tell you about it myself. On the title page is a poem written by Carla's eight year-old daughter. First up: a bake sale guideline, then history and cooking equipment, conversion chart, ingredients, photos, troubleshooting, a guide to how to bake for newer cooks, adapting/resizing recipes, substitutions, presentation, storage, and a guide to baking throughout the year. Comprehensive. And that is just the first 50 pages! From page 50 to 252 are more than 150 delicious recipes. Lists for avoiding specific sensitivities/allergens (soy, nut, wheat) and child-friendly recipes are noted.

Here are the ten recipes chosen by testers (I tested!) as favorites: orange and almond biscotti, reindeer squares, chai chocolate mini loaves, lemon and blueberry biscuits, coffee and caramel cupcakes, zebra cake (yes!), no-bake apricot cookies, chocolate pie, mini sausage rolls (see?), and pea-tarragon-cream cheese tart (yum!). And now I want the pesto again. It is my favorite recipe for pesto ever. If you don't have this book, don't you wonder why not?

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Carla has generously provided a copy for the MoFo giveaways here! I hope I have tantalized you enough, because this should be on your shelf, and stained from use. It will still be pretty, and you (and the people who you live with/bake for!) will be really happy.


To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below. Tell me about a vegan bake sale you baked for, or a vegan baked good you bought at one, or a vegan baked good you can't live without, or anything at all. This giveaway is open to everybody everywhere, whether you are in Seoul, San Diego, or Sydney. The winner will be chosen by a random number generator and posted tomorrow below tomorrow's giveaway. If you win a giveaway on this blog at some point this month, please be kind and don't enter further giveaways--I'd love as many people to win something as possible!

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The winner of yesterday's Taza Mexicano Sampler giveaway is radioactivevegan! Congratulations! Please send your name and address to me at miso...@yahoo.com. (<---make sure to click on the . . . link for the rest of the email address. This is a spam avoidance thing.)