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Making vegan Halloween candy for my teenage daughter

Guest post written by Simon Vincent

My teenage daughter told us four months ago that she was going vegan. I didn't believe that she would stick to it for more than a few weeks, but she's still sticking to that regimen. I remember it distinctly because I was going to make her a birthday cake the next week and had to come up with an alternative recipe. Since then I've been experimenting with all kinds of vegan recipes to figure out which ones are good and which one's aren't.

I looked online to find some vegan Halloween recipes to make for her that would still taste good. While I was online looking up those recipes, I ran across some info on clear TV bundle packages. I showed them to my wife and after that we decided to change over our home service to one of those bundles.

I did find some pretty good sounding vegan candy recipes, but I never trust one online that says it's good. Sometimes those just taste weird, but I did find a few candy recipes for peanut butter cups and chocolate bars that were pretty satisfactory.

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