The Blooming Platter Cookbook:
A Harvest of Seasonal Vegan Recipes 
Betsy’s first book is a celebration of the seasons, featuring a wide range of accessible and elegant vegan recipes for the home cook. Spanning regional American favorites and global cuisines, these 175 recipes and 8 pages of color photos feature all the essential goodness that fresh vegetables, fruits, and herbs bring to your table, all year ‘round.
Available on Amazon.
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What’s “The Platter”?
The Blooming Platter offers a growing collection of recipes for creative appetizers, beverages, snacks, soups, salads, sides and entrees with a tendency toward ethnic fusion dishes, lightened-up comfort foods and updated classics with a twist. A baker since childhood, I also include a burgeoning selection of dessert recipes that will tempt even the staunchest dairy-lover. Here's to compassionate plant-based cooking and eating!
~Betsy DiJulio
About Betsy DiJulio
When Betsy—an award-winning art teacher and practicing artist—is not teaching, making art, reading, writing, or walking her new dogs, Patsy and Urban, she can often be found in downward dog on her yoga mat.
And after that? A little food, a little more wine, and a lot of communing with friends, family, and students (well, no wine for her students).
In addition to authoring The Blooming Platter Cookbook, Betsy is a regular contributor, columnist, or featured writer for:
- SchoolArts
- Coastal Virginia Magazine
- VEER
- The Virginian-Pilot
- Alimentum
Look for the occasional link here on her website.
Besides art and cooking, Betsy admits to being a little obsessed with:
-Anything eco- or animal-friendly
-Artisanal and small business ventures
-Day hiking
-Consignment fashion
-Design in its many forms, especially interiors and landscapes
Did someone say mid-century modern?
Blooming Blogroll
This Coca-Cola Cake with Fudgy Frosting is yet more evidence that I have been having powerful winter cravings for Southern comfort foods!
March 3, 2013 at 9:54 pm
Could I turn this into a 7 up cake? If so how do you replace the cocoa? More flour?
March 4, 2013 at 6:04 am
Hi Cassia~
I would certainly think so. Why don’t you Google “vegan soda cake” because it seems like, just this weekend, I saw a site on which the creator gave a basic cake recipe that could be altered with different kinds of soda. I would start by substituting flour for the cocoa, but chocolate also reacts with baking soda for leavening, so you won’t get exactly the same effect. You might Google replacements too. In my cake, the cola creates deep spicy, caramel-y notes that 7-Up, of course, won’t and I assume that’s not what you want. So, just a thought: you might create some nuances of flavor and boost that crisp citrus-y taste that 7-Up does have with lemon and/or lime zest. Good luck; please share your results! If you end up with a recipe you like and a photo, I’d be happy to share here on TBP!
Thanks!
~Betsy
March 4, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Such an incredible recipe Betsy – thanks so much for sharing!!
March 4, 2013 at 5:49 pm
My pleasure, Alisa…it’s such an honor for it to be included on Go Dairy Free!
June 7, 2014 at 8:09 am
Made this cake for my son’s 19th birthday/high school graduation and it was a hit! I’d never had a cola cake before, but had all the ingredients on hand and liked the idea of using soda to help with leavening (I’ve had quite a few vegan cake fails in the past) My mother couldn’t believe the cake was vegan. Thanks for developing and sharing this fun recipe!
June 7, 2014 at 9:17 am
Thank YOU for sharing, Elizabeth! I love knowing that your son and his friends loved it as much as the teenagers I teach do. Congrats to your son on his graduation. Ours is next Friday. Bittersweet. 🙂