Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus

Simple and delicious recipes. I have found one error. The vanilla "roll out" cookies. I'm sorry. I've already forgotten what they are actually called. I made them yesterday. There is a type-o. Chia seeds are your egg replacer. One tablespoon chia seeds, to three tablespoons water. 4 for a large egg. It should be 1/2 a cup water. **NOT 1 1/2 cup.** That's one cup too much water. If you are an old hat at vegan baking, resist the urge to grind the seeds up. The little dots are lovely in your cookies. Also, I didn't see any point to mixing the chia seeds in batches with the flour. I mixed them directly in with the oil, sugar and vanilla, by hand. Then added the flour in batches. The recipe calls for a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. So you don't chew up the seeds. I just blended it by hand. It only took seconds. Now all I need are seasonal Wilton cutters. They are delicious! Very much like an all butter shortbread, er? With poppy seeds? The recipe said to roll them out to 1/4 inch. But mine came out HUGE! They rose significantly. Chickpea flour really makes these cookies GRAND!

Very complicated and the recipes did not like my family

This book is really useful around the holidays and even for off holiday occasions. It provides a variety of recipes to work with and to choose from.

So far I have made three things from this cookbook: twice baked sweet potatoes - very good, made them for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. For Thanksgiving, I also made the "late winter apple tart". The crust only contained almond meal, teff flour and coconut oil. Hmmm, what is going to hold it together? No xanthan gum or binder of any king to replace the gluten? But I kept an open mind and tried it. Well, my gut instinct was right as the joke at Thankgiving was "would you like a piece of my sand tart?" Aside from being flavorless, the crust disintegrated into powder. The filling only consists of apples and coconut milk... I am not a fan of sugar so was hoping this would taste good, but again, no flavor. So I spent and hour and a half making baked apples, as the top was the only edible part of the tart. I thought... perhaps I overmixed the dough? So for Christmas, I decided to make the Holiday White Bean Spinach Tart. Again similar ingredients for the dough, but I was very careful not to overmix it, and used individual tart pans. And yet again, we had sand tarts for Christmas! The filling however was delicious. So in conclusion, I will probably try more recipes from this book that do not involve crusts or baking of any kind! Hate to think what would happen if I tried to make (sand?) cookies.

The recipes are easy to follow and come with well illustrated directions. The focus is mainly on carb intensive dishes that would traditionally be made with flours. Thank you for that! This cook book fills in the blanks when trying to create traditional dishes from scratch.

Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and MenusI really enjoyed this book --- lots of great ideas and recipies that all turn out great --- i would highly recommend this book Kate

Gluten free baking.

Happy with my purchase

great recipes so us gluten free people can still enjoy the holidays too! :)

There are a few errors in this book with regards to cooking time. I have since purchased a thermopern thermometer and use the recipes taking into account the temperature gauge on my thermometer.

I bought this book as one of my best books for a Vegan diet . A great read !! Yum