Realistic Vegan Cooking
Vegan Easter recipes to brighten your celebration, from desserts and drinks to main dishes, something to delight the whole family.
Baking vegan donuts at home is always a treat, especially these delectable double chocolate baked donuts. These are so good topped with a simple sugar glaze, powdered sugar dusting, or even a thick vegan buttercream chocolate icing, like the one included in the recipe. Use colored sprinkles with the glaze or the icing to color […]
For a quick, simple dessert or brunch pastry, these puff pastry almond paste-filled French almond croissants (croissants aux amandes) are perfection. They are easy to make and have a delightful, slightly sweet, almond-y flavor. I top them with drizzled simply syrup and sliced toasted almonds for a nice glaze with a little crunch. The filling […]
Chickpea spinach gigli pasta with za’atar is a flavorful, lovely dish. Gigli means “lilies” in Italian, and this pasta is very pretty, wavy and swirled like little flowers. Its shape also helps it to hold sauces or herbs. If you can find a vegetable gigli pasta, you can also get the gorgeous red and green […]
This sweet, peppery Polish carrot soup is adapted from a recipe I came across on Instagram. I changed the ingredients up quite a bit, adding more vegetable broth, substituting chickpeas for the original beans (which I couldn’t actually interpret in the Polish recipe). Although I created my own recipe instructions, I did stick to the […]
We love these carrot cake cinnamon rolls at my house! The addition of shredded carrots and nutmeg to cinnamon roll dough makes them even tastier. Top them with a vegan cream cheese glaze or my vegan sugar glaze for a perfect sweet breakfast or delicious dessert. I’ve slightly adapted a recipe from Mindful Avocado, omitting […]
A refreshing drink any time of the year, southern tropical fruit tea is a lovely sweet tea without all the processed sugar of classic sweet tea. I first encountered tea with fruit juice way back in the 1990s when I tried a Martha Stewart recipe for Fruity Tea Punch and loved it. Since then, I […]