The Smoothie Vegetarians

    Happy Tuesday everybody! I hope everybody had a fantastic weekend. I just celebrated my 20th birthday on Saturday. Today, I decided to go back to some sweets that we all know and love. We are going to be making a sour cream coffee cake today! It is so yummy, you can't even tell that is is vegan. So, there are different ways you can make sour cream vegan. You can do the cashew sour cream, or you can use the recipe for tofu sour cream. Since I am on a HUGE tofu kick, I will be using the tofu sour cream recipe. I overall enjoyed making this recipe.      It didn't take much time to make it at all. Just as long as you have the ingredients, and you have the recipe in hand, you will be prepared for anything. Overall, it takes about 20-25 minutes for prep, and about 45 minutes to an hour to bake. I made this when I was still going to the Culinary Institute of Virginia in our Alternative Baking class. It kind of sucked the first time we made it, but w...

HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYBODY! As always, I hope everybody had a fantastic weekend. So, I decided to talk about my experience with vegan cake. Only because my birthday is coming up very soon and what better topic to talk about than cake! Cake is not my FAVORITE dessert, but nonetheless, people do enjoy cake, and  I hope y'all enjoy this recipe! So, I noticed that when I baked the cake, it took a tiny bit longer than usual. So I would suggest maybe adding an additional 5 minutes just to be on the safe side. For "stick butter" substitute, I like to use Earth Balance. To me, I can't really tell a difference so that is a good thing! Now, for the shortening, this took some hard research as I didn't even know there was a substitute for shortening, nor did I know that typical shortening was not vegan. Luckily, I did find out that Crisco is vegan. BUT here are a list of other vegan shortening brands: Spectrum, Nutiva, Admiration, and Wesson. For the milk, we can use s...

There is a local restaurant here in Louisville that makes the best turnip cakes. It is actually a local favorite and people travel from all over to eat at this restaurant Sounds great right? Well, the issue is that it is clear on the other side of town. I rarely find time to drive all the way over there to get turnip cakes. So I decided to make them on my own! The recipe is surprisingly easy and only has a few ingredients and is super easy to make. What really makes the difference in this dish is the seasonings. Turnips do not taste like much of anything so you would need to season it very well and serve it with an awesome sauce. Most places service this fried with eggs, but if you are a vegan you can leave out the eggs and serve it on its own. Simply brown it in cooking oil.  This recipe is a hit with everyone I have shared it with! I hope you enjoy this as much as I do! ~ Stella~ Turnip Cake Recipe Makes 4 servings - 1 p...