I LOVE baking….not cooking so much as baking. And as we get closer to fall, I find myself thinking about ways that I can improve on some of my famous ‘favorites’ and try new things to add to the mix. So many holiday traditions in our home are centered around baking too and I look forward to rolling out dough and decorating sugar cookies and getting completely messy and covered in goo with my family.
As some of you know, I am a vegetarian and working towards a more vegan lifestyle, so when I found The Joy of Vegan Baking, the compassionate cooks’ traditional treats and sinful sweets cookbook by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau at Barnes and Noble I was even more excited to start baking again. But, what I found after reading, yes reading a cookbook, cover-to-cover was that Colleen includes so much information about how to use animal-free foods in everyday cooking that it has become so much easier for me to change a few little ingredients in my favorite recipes to more healthy options and usually with a tastier, better result!
This book is full of great tips, that ANY baker should know, I wish I had had this book years ago. It is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to bake or cook, vegetarian or vegan or no. As you can see from all of the flags sticking out of the sides, I love this book! I literally had to just stop flagging pages because I was flagging every 3rd page or so…
you should definitely check out this cookbook…it ROCKS 
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