I can’t believe weeks have passed by since Easter already.
Easter used to be my favorite holiday. I loved dyeing eggs, hunting for them the next morning and gobbling up Cadbury creme eggs and jelly beans.
Pretty much all of that is out for me now. (RIP my longtime love affair with Cadbury creme eggs.)
I didn’t want to go completely candy-less when I went to my parents’ house for Easter, so I whipped up vegan versions of two of my favorites: peanut butter cups and peppermint patties.
(True story: My Christmas list every year used to be headlined with “a peppermint patty.”)
They’re a smidge labor-intensive (but I’m also Miss Can’t I Just Put Everything In A Pot and Let It Go?) and it’s hard for me to make them pretty (follow the links to the recipes for pretty), but what do you know – they worked beautifully! And tasted every bit as good as their commercial counterparts, but with little to no added sweetener. They did have to be kept frozen or refrigerated, but don’t most good things?
My whole family loved them. My boyfriend, well, he preferred the big, fat Reese’s peanut butter egg in my parents’ candy dish because it’s sweeter, he said. I mean, who DOESN’T like the big peanut butter egg, but I was glad to have my yummy peanut butter cups. And they were made out of pantry items!
I think I have to make these for Christmas, too.
Now if only I can find an easy Cadbury creme egg alternative.
How do you substitute traditional holiday sweets?
Girl Goes Veggie 
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