Sticky Fingers' Vegan Sweets: 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes: A Baking Book

Bought this for my girlie as a present, as she is vegan, and whenever we go to DC it's everything she can to go to Sticky Fingers. So as you can see, it's the gift that keeps on giving- TO MY STOMACH! (cue maniacal laughter) So far she's made several of the cookies (and modified them to our liking) and they are amazing! The sweet and salty cookies are delicious in their surreptitious evil, hiding in my cupboard, calling me... calling me... BOW DOWN TO YOUR NEW COOKIE MASTERS! I can hardly wait to have my precious Cowvins again, just delicious... oh yeah, great recipe book.

I have been to this bakery in D.C. and that is why I bought the cookbook for myself and my daughter. This is my daughter's favorite bakery. She bought herself a cheesecake for her birthday and consumed the whole thing over the course of a week. It was super delicious. The cookbook is thorough, a fun read and as someone who has cooked for myself and my family for 40 years I found the recipes well written. I am off to make myself some whoopie pies and key lime cheesecake. Enjoy. VB

I have made about 10 things from this cookbook and was prepared to write a really good review of it here until reading the one about blueberry pie. And, sure enough, the recipe is all sorts of messed up. But, after this summer making a lot of pies, I now know that 2 cups of blueberries is not nearly enough for a 9" double-crust pie. You need 6 cups or 3 times what the recipe calls for. But, if I had never made blueberry pie, that's where I would be griping. Just as the author asks you to read the recipe several times, she means HER recipes too. Oftentimes, cookbooks go right through to publishing without having a knowledgeable proofreader or even testers. This happens in knitting books as well. I can only imagine that something like this happened because Sticky Fingers in DC is phenomenal. From my experiences making the cakes in the book, they are extraordinary. However, the volumes are a little off. The cakes need to be a little taller to fit into a 9" cake pan versus an 8" one. I had to use more frosting to make the cake look a bit taller. The ratios are all good though. The whoopies section are delicious but the batter wasn't completely smooth, a little too bumpy in appearance and do not look like the Amish ones at the farmer's market. They tasted really good though. The muffins I made are perfect and have the right amount of volume in each cup. I think this cookbook could do with a makeover and have a photo made for EVERY SINGLE RECIPE so that the author and the publisher know what the heck it looks like when it's done.

I am lucky enough to live in DC, and I've made many a trip to Sticky Fingers. It is wonderful to go into a food establishment and not have to be assailed by the odor of dead flesh. Vegans just can't get enough of this store. I flipped when I read that a cookbook was coming out, and I preordered it. The book reads very much like the store appears. It's a bit of odd animal rights activism combined with everybody from yuppies to counter culture folk. And we all come together for phenomenal baked goods. I've only tried a couple of the recipes so far, and they are just as good as the variety whipped up in the store. I will be trying a cake next. My two grandsons' birthday cakes have all come from Sticky Fingers, and they were works of art. I'm anxious to see whether I can get close to the perfection that those cakes have been. The best thing that this cookbook will do is to put a stop to the question that all of us vegans have faced: "Don't you miss all that food you can't eat?" Just made the vanilla cake with the strawberry daiquiri icing. It was absolutely to die for!

I have been struggling to bake delicious things since I became a vegan almost two years ago. This book has brought all my confidence back. I have made the brownies, chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, peanut butter frosting, chocolate ganache, vanilla cake and vanilla frosting. All have turned out AMAZING. The chocolate cake recipe is especially great. I would recommend making sure you use the brands she says and measuring by weight with a kitchen scale. These are scaled down recipes from what she makes in a bakery so measuring by weight is much more precise.

I was very disappointed with this cookbook. I was eager to get it and try out some new recipes, but this was not what I was looking for. The recipes are pretty much regular recipes just using fake butter, egg replacers, cream cheeses, etc. I was looking for recipes that use real ingredients but result in vegan desserts (ex. Cashew cheesecake, using other types of oils in place of butter, flax eggs, etc) These recipes just require you to buy some name brand processed ingredients. I extremely altered a few recipes to meet my needs before donating this book to the thrift store.

I'm so excited to have Doran Petersan's Sticky Fingers' Sweets Vegan cookbook! This is an outstanding collection of recipes and beautiful pictures. The front of the book is filled with great practical advice on successful baking, not to mention those informative little "Love Bites" throughout the book on a wide variety of interesting and useful ingredients. I love that Doran included the recipes for her Cupcake Wars winning quartet. This is one cookbook I will literally be baking my way through every recipe.

The chocolate chip cookies alone are worth the price of the book. Make sure you press them really flat before baking because they don't spread on their own. Everyone that has tried them has thought they were the best chocolate chip cookies they have ever eaten. I also made the brownies. They have a great flavor but were a little crumbly, I'm going to try again and bake less time.

No pictures really (which is why I gave it 4 stars), but the recipes are really great if you don’t mind the lack of visuals.

I have baked a few of the recipes and they were very well received by non-vegan friends. Innovative and creative, I look forward to further experimenting without using the usual butter and egg route! I would have liked to see more pictures of the cakes and bakery. Perhaps a future book. I would certainly buy that

i have tried a few recipes, some where good but others were mediocre. It may just be my baking skills or lack of, however i was disappointed. I really enjoyed their cupcakes at their shop in DC and was hoping mine would be the same, but in the end thy weren't.

Well, I am saying it's awful due to the fact I have tried many of the cupcakes, and the icings and the cakes. The spong cake tastes kind of ok, but they do not rise enough to make a cake with icing. Talking about Icing. all of her icing is runny like water and you can not pip them at all. I live in the uk so I am not sure if the ingredients are muh different than the ones on the USA as the book is from, but I wished I never brought this book. God only know how she won cupcake wars twice.