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If you’re looking for donut shop-style vegan donuts, this is the right place for you! These cinnamon sugar donuts are perfectly sweet, soft, and completely dairy and egg-free!

  Why This Recipe Works  I know there are so many vegan donut recipes out there. But most ot them are baked instead of fried donuts.  I love baked donuts and I’ve already got several baked donut recipes on my blog. But let’s be honest! While they’re pretty easy to make and are healthier than fried donuts, you can taste the difference.  So if you’re looking for authentic donut shop-style donuts, then try this recipe. I promise you that you will love it!  These donuts are made with yeast, which makes them super soft and pillowy! They’re perfect with a cup of coffee or as dessert. We simply can’t get enough of them!  The recipe takes a while because the...

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Made with fresh blueberries and ripe bananas this blueberry banana cake is irresistible

It’s topped with lemon cream cheese frosting. If you love blueberries like I do, here are some yummy blueberry recipes to try Blueberry Muffins, Corn and Blueberry Salad, Blueberry Crumb Bars, and the Best Banana Bread Recipe What do you usually do when you have ripe bananas on the counter?  Make banana bread?  That is what I usually do.  Well, that is what I used to do before i was introduced to this delicious cake recipe. I stumbled across the recipe over at my friend Laura’s site,  Real Mom Kitchen.  One bite and I knew I had a new reason to let my bananas get too ripe. The cake was delicious and I loved the combination of bananas, blueberries and...

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Apple Cider Muffins are full of apple flavor with apple pie spice and apple cider and are the perfect treat to have with a cup of coffee, as a dessert, or even to just satisfy your sweet tooth! For another quick and sweet muffin, try my Cinnamon...

Apple Cider Muffins are full of apple flavor with apple pie spice and apple cider and are the perfect treat to have with a cup of coffee, as a dessert, or even to just satisfy your sweet tooth! For another quick and sweet muffin, try my Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins. Apple Cider Muffins It’s all about apples and apple-flavored treats in the fall. But, you don’t even need to peel or chop any apples to get that popular fall flavor in these muffins. With homemade apple pie spice and apple cider, there is a sweet apple taste in every bite! Plus, the sugary topping will make it hard to eat just one! Apple Cider Muffins Recipe There are two main...

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Thanksgiving is around the corner and if you’re anything like me, you’re having some mixed feeling

s. The holiday has always been one I look forward to not just for the delicious food, but because it’s so much fun to celebrate with family and friends. Knowing our Thanksgiving celebration will look different this year has made me a little uneasy, but I’m holding fast to traditions that will make the day resemble something close to “normal.” For me, that means making our Herbed Butternut Squash Wellington and pumpkin pie, which my mom is always in charge of. These Mini Vegan Pumpkin Pies with Frosted Cranberries are perfect for a small Thanksgiving celebration!  Rather than making a big pumpkin pie and dealing with serving utensils, I wanted to make individual vegan pumpkin pies that my guests could...

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It’s definitely October, but here in Los Angeles it feels like summer is never going to end. We’ve suffered another heatwave this week and I am craving a change in the weather. I remember feeling antsy about the lagging change in seasons when I lived in Chicago, too – for the opposite reason of course. A snow shower in late April would completely crush my spirit. It’s pretty ironic how excited I am for cooler weather when that’s all I wanted to get away from most of my adult life. All of this is to say, this Vegan Apple Cider Cake with Maple Glaze gave me the taste of autumn I’ve been wanting for weeks.  I have to confess: baking...

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