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🍪 How to make bakes so good, no one would guess they're dairy-free, vegan, or gluten-free.

By Rachel Mastandrea Turula, owner of the former Fetching Goodies bakery and cookie bar queen now sharing her recipes so you can make them, too.

07/01/2026

Dairy-Free Blueberry Galette is pie's easy button! 🥧

A flaky, golden crust wraps around jammy fresh or frozen blueberries to create a rustic, summery dessert that's easier than pie, yet just as delicious and impressive. The recipe is naturally dairy-free and can be modified with simple swaps for vegan and gluten-free, too.

I made this beauty while on vacation with my family on Cape Cod. No pie plate, no rolling pin, and all the pie-flavor goodness. I threw it together in less than 30 minutes while my Dad grilled dinner. Popped the galette in the oven to bake while we ate our meal, and then we enjoyed a warm-from-the-oven, light, fresh, so satisfying dessert, complete with non-dairy ice cream.

I'm about to make a double batch to celebrate the 4th of July. It's a crowd-pleaser that friends and family will love!!

🫐 Comment 'galette' and I'll send you the recipe.

Happy baking!

06/30/2026

June on Cape Cod ☀️🪻🏖️ 🫐 🍷 👙 🚲 🍨

06/23/2026

summer baking inspo + sneak peek of upcoming recipes! ☀️

If summer had a dessert menu, this would be mine.

Lots of bright flavors, fresh fruit, and farmers' market ingredients. A nod to nostalgia, classics, and new combinations I haven't been able to stop thinking about.

Which one are you craving most!?

🍓 I'm sharing a new baking recipe every week. Comment 'recipes' and I'll send them right to you.

All undetectably dairy-free, with swaps for vegan, gluten-free, and egg-free, too. So you can treat yourself and surprise and delight those around you.

Happy summer, happy baking!

06/07/2026

The easy breakfast bread I make on repeat all summer long! ☀️

A batch of super quick zucchini bread sets us up with moist, delicious, grab-and-go breakfast bread all week!

The recipe makes two loaves, so you can freeze one for later or give it to a neighbor.

I’ve made it undetectably dairy-free here, and the recipe has swaps to make it vegan and gluten-free, too.

🍆 Comment ‘zucchini’ and I’ll send you the recipe so you can enjoy it and share it all summer long!

Happy baking!

06/06/2026

“Take a picture of me with the Goodies.” 🍪

Since moving to MA, I’ve been wanting to get to know more of our neighbors. But you know how it is. Work, schedules, activities... life flies by.

So I was especially excited for this year’s block party! The neighborhood has been doing an annual block party for years, and this was the first one I was in town for.

Of course, bringing cookie bars was a must! I made Chocolate Salted Pretzel S’mores cookie bars (dairy-free) and created custom labels to match the invitation. You know I love a theme.

As soon as I set them on the food table, kids and adults alike started eyeing the Goodies. Before long, the tray was empty.

Introductions were made, conversations sparked, and I left with phone numbers of other neighborhood ladies and talks of getting together soon.

Grateful for such a friendly community. And for an excuse to make themed Goodies. ;)

🥨 The recipe for Chocolate Salted Pretzel S’mores cookie bars drops next week (with vegan and gluten-free swaps too). Comment ‘pretzel’ and I’ll send it to you.

Happy weekend!

06/05/2026

OREO-BOTTOMED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOT CAKES that are undetectably dairy-free! 🍪

I have to say I love to see a trend and put my own spin on it. And since I make cookie bars, it seemed only fitting to make a cookie cake version of the viral dot cake trend.

I am absolutely obsessed with the result. Think of them like an individual chocolate chip cookie cake in a jar with an Oreo crust!!

They’d make such cute individual desserts for a party. Or to jazz up dessert night any time.

Make them for fun with this trend, make them for a cute birthday or group gathering. I mean what’s not to love!

They're dairy-free as-is with swaps to make them vegan and gluten-free as well.

I’ve written out the step by step recipe on FetchingGoodies.com – comment ‘dot cookie cake’ and I’ll send you the direct link. 🫶🏻

Happy baking!

P.S. This fun sprinkle medley is called Pep Talk by . I order them online, linked in the recipe, with a discount too!

06/02/2026

Welcome to June! ☀️ (I cannot believe it!) Before we dive headfirst into the first *official* month of summer (!!), let’s recap all the tasty spring-to-summer bakes from the past month!

Most of these recipes can be accessed now, and some will be going up in the coming weeks.

All are undetectably dairy-free, and most have swaps and subs to make them vegan and gluten-free, too.

🌼 Comment ‘recipes’ and I’ll send you the full list, + newsletter sign up to get all my new recipes coming this summer!

Happy baking!

05/22/2026

One of my go-to, crowd-pleasing red, white, and blue desserts! 🍓🫐🤍

Strawberry shortcake is quintessential summer.

I first made these for Father’s Day last year and set up a little build-your-own strawberry blueberry shortcake bar. Complete with undetectably dairy-free and vegan shortcakes (that can be made gluten-free too), both regular and non-dairy whipped cream, and lots of fresh strawberries and blueberries.

The combination of fluffy, flaky, tender shortcakes with luscious whipped topping and juicy berries is a burst of sunshine and summertime in every bite.

Perfect for patriotic holidays, like MDW!

The shortcakes themselves are naturally vegan and can easily be adapted gluten-free with gluten-free flour.

For the whipped cream, depending on who’s eating them, you can do both regular whipped cream and dairy-free. My favorites for non-dairy are whipping cream and oat whipped topping. I typically don’t sweeten it. The creamy, light flavor and texture pair beautifully with the subtly sweet shortcakes and natural sweetness of the berries.

☀️ Enjoy the full recipe at FetchingGoodies.com. Comment “shortcake” and I’ll send it to you.

Happy MDW, happy baking!

05/21/2026

a little sweet, a little tart, pure sunshine 🍋☀️

When life gives you lemons…make Lemon Poppyseed Cookie Bars!

There’s nothing I love more than the inspiration of a bakery classic to create something new and different. Lemon poppyseed is such an iconic muffin flavor, so why not turn those flavors into a cookie bar!

These beauties have a luscious lemony flavor with pops of poppyseeds, each bite will melt in your mouth.

Cookie bars are my fave because you can cut them to whatever size you want, keep some in the freezer, and/or easily share them at a BBQ or party.

💚 Plussss they’re undetectably vegan and dairy-free, and can easily be made gluten-free too.

The full recipe with ingredient swaps is live on FetchingGoodies.com, or comment ‘lemon’ and I’ll send it to you.

Happy baking!

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