Signed Cookbook - The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook

I just love Laura’s Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook! Never mind that I’m her mom and helped formulate of the recipes. That seemed a natural since some of them are versions of family recipes. The trick was to update them: we wanted to be sure that it was from beginning to end a healthy cookbook. Since the cookbook was an outgrowth of her healthy cookies line, Laura’s Wholesome Junk Food, we wanted to be sure to include healthy cookies in the cookbook - cookies that maintained the standard she had set. This meant to begin with that there would be no refined flour or sugar. And since all her cookies that she sells are vegan, we wanted to be sure that this would work as a vegan cookbook as well. So Laura has devoted a page to substitution suggestions early in the cookbook. A favorite cookie recipe of mine is the one for Peppernuts, a Christmas tradition in my family since I was a little girl. With two easy substitutions, coconut or other oil for the butter, and coconut or other plant-based m