For those of you readers who are not vegan, today is your lucky day! I have a special Christmas treat for you. It has been a long time since I have posted a non vegan recipe on the site. But it is Christmas, and I wanted to share a recipe that will appeal to absolutely everybody. My dear friend, Karen Morgan from Blackbird Bakery, one of the most accomplished, brilliant gluten free bakers I know has created a decadent chocolate holiday creation just for you. Yes! One of my favourite companies, Green and Blacks sent me some of their gorgeous Fair Trade Dark Chocolate to play (I use their vegan cocoa powder all the time) and because it wasn’t vegan I couldn’t use it. So, Karen came to the rescue. I sent her the chocolate, and she whipped... Keep Reading

It is DAY 11 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and we are celebrating our Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway in style with the queen of gluten free vegan cupcakes, the spectacular Erin McKenna, celebrated founder and proprietress of beloved bakery, BabyCakes NYC. This world famous bakery chain now has bustling locations in two locations Los Angeles, one at the Downtown Disney® Marketplace at the Walt Disney World® Resort, in addition to it's flagship store in New York City.   BabyCakes NYC is a glorious indulgent gift to food allergic patrons and devoted vegans. However, discerning foodies, dessert lovers, and celebrities such as Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Deschanel, Mary-Louise Parker, Pamela Anderson,... Keep Reading

It is DAY 7 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and we continue our celebration of this month's Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway with the lovely Shelly Lippe from Gluten Free Vegan Journey. I first came in contact with Shelly after engaging with the posts on her Facebook Page. We definitely shared some synergy, so I was thrilled when she agreed to participate in this event and share her favourite recipe, this Gluten Free Vegan Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Filling.  Shelly says of her cake, "This is the most successful gluten free, vegan cake I have ever tasted, or made! It is so moist, delicious, and a definite crowd pleaser! It will be a big hit with the omnivores and gluten-eaters in your life, too! Sugar free... Keep Reading

It is DAY 28 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and I am delighted to feature the GORGEOUS Christy Smith from Whole To Healthy. Excalibur introduced me to Christy, and I immediately fell in love with her warmth, enthusiasm, and humility. This lovely lady was nervous about her recipe being featured, and then delivers this INCREDIBLE SHOW STOPPING raw vegan dessert. HA! I served her raw vegan pumpkin layer cake to my dinner guests last week, and after one bite of what I promised would be Piggy HEEEEVEN they were all scrambling for note books to scribble down the recipe. Do NOT be put off by the apparent fiddly work. This dessert is a game changer. YUMMO!   Delicious sweet morsels of pleasure are Christy's specialty! Like me, Christy is... Keep Reading

It is DAY 9 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and we continue our celebration of the Excalibur Dehydrator Giveaway with the incredble Jason Wrobel, from The J-Wro Show, who is always the life of the party. I swear, J-Wro is the definition of a true RAWkstar! He has more energy than anybody in the raw foods world, and a dynamic quality that is hard to match.  If you think raw foods are not for you, Jason will be the one to change your mind. He makes healthy raw vegan foods FUN! Watch one episode of The J-Wro Show and he will have you in stitches. He is absolutely HILARIOUS. But more importantly, he has a TON of information to share which makes preparing healthy whole foods a breeze. I can't wait until his new TV show debuts on the... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 30 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid, which means it is the LAST DAY to enter to win the 7QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer! We have had an incredible month of delicious gluten free recipes created by some of the top gluten free bloggers in the world. So, it is only fitting that we wrap up our celebration in style with these SENSATIONAL gluten free peanut butter glazed chocolate midnight doughnuts created by the incomparable Silvana Nardone from Silvana's Kitchen. These doughnuts are rich and DELICIOUS. I had never made doughnuts before, and Scott and I had SO much fun! Silvana will be featuring these babies in the May/June issue of Easy Eats magazine. How lucky are we that we get to sample them first?! Do not miss making... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 29 of Gluten Free Baking with KitchenAid and we celebrate the second to the last day of our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with this delicious gluten free apple spiced loaf created by Jennifer Cafferty from GFree Life and founder of The Gluten and Allergy Free Expo and the Nourished Gluten Free Food Bloggers Conference. This gluten free apple spiced loaf is really a sweet cake baked in a loaf pan! Pure apple deliciousness! This apple cake is gluten free, dairy free, soy free, nut-free, and is amazingly moist! Scott and I happily scoffed half the loaf during our "Mad Men Marathon" last night. The other half will be enjoyed when we continue it tonight!  So who is Jen Cafferty? Well, she is one BUSY gluten free maven... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 23 of Gluten Free Baking with KitchenAid, and we begin the last week of KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway Mania with this fantastic gluten free, vegan crunchy topped apple coffee cake from the DIVINE Kim Lutz and Megan Hart from Welcoming Kitchen. If you are living with multiple food allergies, this amazing website will be a LIFESAVER for you and your family. All of the delicious recipes that Kim and Megan share are free of the eight common allergens (dairy, eggs, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, fish, and shellfish), and are gluten-free, and vegan. WOO HOO! I swear this site is a GOLD MINE! I call these ladies the "dynamic duo" because they do AMAZING things together in the food allergic community.   These ladies both... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 19 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we continue our grand celebration of the 7QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with this fabulous gluten free, dairy free cinnmon bun cake from the lovely Jeanine Friesen from The Baking Beauties. Heads up! If you like cinnamon rolls but don't want to take the time to make them, you can still enjoy the lovely taste of them with this super easy cake. But I will say, that if you want to make some AMAZING cinnamon rolls, TRY Jeanine's gluten free cinnamon rolls which are the most popular recipe on her site! One bite of those babies and you will see why people are flocking there in their droves for a piece of cinnamon heaven! I am trying her lemon bars and homemade granola... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is still DAY 18 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we continue celebrating zucchini with this delicious gluten free, dairy free, nut free, soy free, vegan sweet zucchini cake from my other New York beauty, Patrice Pollack from A Health Foodie. I wanted to feature a brand new blog during this month and I chose Patrice because I just love her! I first came into contact with her when she started following my blog and wrote to me regarding the use of agave in my recipes. This started a chain of lovely emails, and a fabulous new internet friendship was born.  Patrice revealed that she works in advertising at JWT in NYC but was a self professed "foodie" who had just started a recipe blog that was mainly vegan and gluten... Keep Reading