Vegan Pie: In the Sky

I got this book after I had tried Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, by the same authors, and found it very successful. Like its two counterparts, Vegan Pie in the Sky is full of great vegan recipes and advice. There are sections advising on ingredients, equipment, and technique, as well as metric conversion charts, useful for those who, like me, don't use the American systems of measurements and temperature. The book includes recipes for crusts, fillings, and even a few toppings. There are sections on fruit pies, cream pies, harvest pies, and chocolate pies. Many of the recipes have tips and some have variations. Whatever your taste in pies, you're sure to find something delicious to make. I have many bookmarks in my copy of the book and can recommend the Cosmos Apple Pie and the Lemon Mousse Pie as some of my favorites. If you want to try some sweet vegan pies, this is the book to get.

After their two previous vegan dessert books - Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World: 75 Dairy-free Recipes for Cupcakes That Rule and Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar I thought 'What will they do next?' and I was really excited when I found Vegan Pie in the sky. I'm not actually vegan myself, although I try to reduce the amount of animal products I eat and my family and I have several allergies. This book is packed full of homely fruit pies and fantastic chocolate and other more decadent creamy pies that are just delicious. I've always wanted to make pies, but with allergies to egg and dairy it has been a problem! Their guide to pie making is also incredibly useful, and even if you want to add your own random filling, their pie crusts are delicious. I actually bought this book to make some desserts for christmas - and what a choice! I'm torn between chocolate hazenut truffle pie, 'grasshopper' mint chocolate pie, banoffee pie and so many more! If my waistline gets any worse this christmas, these guys are to blame. As with their previous dessert books, they are American. However, I like measuring things in cups rather than grams and it doesn't take long to figure out some of the ingredients. And I cannot wait to try and make the American classic pumpkin pie. 5/5 I love this book, and I am slowly but surely working my way through all the vegan pie I can!

I bought this book after getting the Cookie book for Christmas. It was definitely A WORTH WHILE BUY, THE PIES YOU MAKE OUT OF THIS ARE amazing! The instructions are so easy to follow, which is good as I am a relatively novice baker at the moment. With the help of this book, and the Cookie book, I have been baking a lot more and don't even remember why you would need a pie to be non-vegan. I don't get any complaints about the lack of eggs or dairy from my omnivore husband or friends either!

I couldn't wait for this to arrive when it was finally published. I have the other two books in this series - Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World: 75 Dairy-free Recipes for Cupcakes That Rule - so of course I had to buy this one too. There are a lot of pies in this book and I've eaten most of them now lol. It's easy enough to make vegan pastry, you just have to use vegan marg instead of butter, however to get some of the pie contents just right well that can be more difficult. That's what this book excels in, there is a wide range of various types of pies or pie fillings and they all look delicious. The ones I've made so far have all been delicious and no one could tell they were vegan.

It has recipes for pastry at the front (short section), pie recipes in the middle, and recipe extras at the end (short section again). Slightly disappointed that they used 'shortening' (veg lard, like Trex for example) in the pastry, as this only adds to the calories (100g=900 calories), but if the pies are only a treat now and then, then perhaps it just might be worth it !?!?!?!? Either way I'm sure the recipes could be tried with the shortening, and then tried with all margarine. There are some (obviously) American ingredients used in the book:- like graham crackers for example, but it is after all an American book. And as they are only used as a biscuit type base for cheesecakes, I'm sure other biscuits can be used instead:- plain, ginger, lemon etc All-in-all it is a good book with loads of yummy recipes in, and it has some lovely, wonderfull combinations to try

The pies are delicious and the recipes easy to follow. No one can tell the difference between 'normal' wheat dairy based pies and these. In fact they taste nicer. My husband has been diagnosed with numerous food intolerances and this book and its sister books on cookies and cakes are invaluable. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Such an amazing book! Lots of sweet favourites in there including banoffee pie and French pear tart. Easy to follow recipes and simple ingredients. Also contains conversion charts. A*

Lots of inspirational recipes in this book. Isa is the best!

El libro parece que está muy bien pero no puedo opinar más porque lo compré para regalo. Cuando la dueña me comente diré más

i gave this book 5 stars because of the amazing selection of pies to choose from and the delicious end-products of everything i've made so far. i'm not vegan but am always trying to be conscious of the amount of animal products i consume and this book makes it possible to enjoy rich, creamy pies without the dairy! in fact, a few of the pies (the lemon mouse, coconut, key-lime) are actually BETTER than the traditional versions! so happy with this book. i think anybody could enjoy it, vegan or not.

Fantastico! Spiegazioni dettagliatissime, ricette provate e belle foto, il tutto scritto e raccontato con lo stile ironico e leggero delle due autrici. È una lettura piacevolissima!

Très très peu de photos. Sinon le recettes sont bien, mais si on ne connait pas une tarte, des photos aident...

I bought Vegan Pie in the Sky when it first came out, and I fell in love with it from the moment it arrived in the mail. Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero are a fantastic vegan duo, and create wonderful, mouth-watering recipes. I have all of the books they co-wrote together and all of their solo books and I have never found fault with their cooking/baking. Since pie is my hands down favorite dessert - really, I will choose pie over anything, cake, brownies, cookies, if given the choice I would eat pie, especially fruit pie for every dessert, without question. - I was extremely excited when this book was released. It's a cute little book with 75 recipes, and all the ones I've tried have been solid. The layout is lovely, the ingredients lists are short, the instructions are clear and everything is very clean and concise. The pages are free of clutter, but full of helpful and useful tips, and the book is overflowing with beautiful, mouth-watering photography. I also love the friendly, witty, conversational tone of the authors and their anecdotes. I like a little personality in my cookbooks, I like a little humor and humanity and Isa and Terry certainly deliver. They come across as being very down to earth, regular people and they're not pretentious like a lot of seasoned cookbook authors. I like that. As for the recipes themselves, all the ones I've made have been fantastic, I haven o complaints on flavor, texture or overall presentation. I typically make pies for the holiday seasons and so far all the pies I've made from this book have been a hit with myself, my husband and my omnivore family and friends. Nobody ever knows that the pies are vegan. I love that the pies in this book use a nice mix of ingredients that are easy to find, nothing to exotic except for maybe agar but if you're a vegan baker that likes to make cream pies or artisan vegan cheese then you already know all about agar. I am particularly grateful for the fact that the creamy pies in this book do not rely solely on tofu for their creaminess. Honestly tofu pies usually don't do it for me. While tofu works pretty well I also find that it has a gritty taste, and the flavor can be very bland. That's not to say that all tofu pies are bad, but I like the ingenuity of using cashews, and coconut milk - sometimes with tofu - for that creaminess. I find that using 2 or more different `creamy' ingredients provides better body, better texture, better flavor, and no aftertaste of anything in particular. Some things you may wish to consider before buying this book however is that it has no nutritional information - and why should it? It's a dessert book, but I know some people like nutritional info. The book uses sugar, and white flour - again it's a dessert book, and these are obvious but some people seem to confuse the word vegan with health, and this isn't always the case. The authors intention was to create creamy, and delicious vegan pies, not health food. Besides we're talking about a book about pie, if you couldn't already figure that out then perhaps you have a larger problem. Also many - but not all - of the recipes include nuts. The cream pie recipes especially use cashews, I personally love this but if you have a cashew allergy then you may be out of luck. Unless you're adept at adapting recipe's to suit an allergy then I suggest you avoid the book. Lastly, while I found all the pie crust recipes in this book to be delicious I did not find them particularly easy to work with. Perhaps this is my own problem, me and dough do not make a good team and I often have problems when working with dough. Isa and Terry include a ton of great suggestions on how to make proper pies and good dough, but there are at least a couple other pie dough recipes that I've had better luck with. Still I do make the crusts from this book often enough, if your dough tears a bit it's easy enough to patch up and place that patchwork on the bottom where nobody will see. The following are the recipes I've made from the book and what I thought of them. Buttery Double Crust - Loved it Olive Oil Double Crust - Loved it Single (and loving it) Pastry Curst - Loved it Chocolate Shortbread Tart Shell - Loved it Graham Cracker Crust - Regular, Chocolate, Vanilla and Cookie Crumb Variations - Loved Them All She's My Cherry Pie - Loved it Blackberry Bramble Pie - Loved it Basil Peach Pie - Loved it Appleberry Pie - Loved it Chocolate Galaxy Banana Cheesecake - Loved it Blueberry Bliss Cheesecake - Loved it Raspberry Lime Rickey Cheesecake - Loved it Key Lime Pie - Loved it Coconut Cream Pie - Loved it Coconut Lime Cream Pie - Loved it Cappuccino Mousse Pie - Loved it Sweet Potato Brazil Nut Crunch Pie - Loved it Voluptuous Pumpkin Pie - Loved it - a favorite of mine Pumpkin Cheesecake - Pretty Good Grasshopper Pie - Loved it! Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding Pie - Loved it Café Mocha Cheesecake - Loved it I think the recipes in this book are easy enough for a novice baker or a newbie vegan, and so I wouldn't hesitate to buy this book for a friend or recommend it to a friend or family member. All the pies I've made so far have been enjoyed by vegans and omni's alike, so it seems the perfect bridge to gap the divide. My only regret is that I haven't had the time to make more of the pies, but many of the pages of my copy are dog-eared so as I make more I'll be sure to update my review.